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The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-29
RUSSIAN LINES HOLD FIRM
EXCEPT NORTH OF WARSAW
Mackensen Has Been Checked Ap-
parently But Won Hinden-
berg Moves On.

Only the northern tip OF the pine
ers the Austro-Germans for more
than a week have been trying to
close around Warsaw and the Rus
sian armies in the Polish salient has
moved the last few days, says Lon
don.
This point has forced 1t way across
the Narew River, between the for
tresses of Pultusk and Rozan. and is
advancing toward the Bug River,
which stands for the greater part of
the way between 1t and the Warsaw
Wilma Railway. its objective.
The other point. which Field Mar
shall Won Mackensen is directing at
the Cholm-Lublin railway. has gain
ed hardly yard since II reached the
village of Relovetz, just south OF the
railway.
In stubbornly resisting the Ger
man advance the Russians are max
ing a continual threat at Won Macken-
sens flank along the Bug River from
east OF Cholm to east OF Lemberg.
Between Kryland Sokal their attacks
have been especially severe. compel
ling the Germans to send reinforce
ments to meet them.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-29
BRITISH GOVERNMENT
ANSWERS OUR PROTEST
She Holds That the Order in Council
Is Within International

Great Britain's reply to the Ameri-
can note of March 80 protesting
against enforcement of the orders in
council which restrict neutral COM
merce, was received in Washington
Monday. 1t holds that the orders
are within international law, al
though they may involve a new ap-
plication of principles and argues
that 1t is proper to await q judicial
Interpretation.
The new note, in courteous Ian
guage, holds that Great Britain's ac-
tion is justified by decisions OF the
United States supreme court in cases
arising during the Civil War. Any
differences with the United States
over what is termed the new applica-
tion OF principles are held to be
proper for submission TO judicial set
tlemen,. -.saM
Secretary Lansing announced re-
receipt of the note. 1t will be for
warded to president Wilson at Cor
nish, N. H.
The keynote OF the British note Is
a declaration that the British govern
ment has steadfastly held to the
oard principles OF International law
in all that has been done under the
order in council; and that If neu-
trail government feels aggrieved there
is a remedy in the courts, or even
tually, in arbitration.
Generally, 1t Is held that when a
neutral country or port is made a
base OF operations against a belliger-
ent, the other belligerent is justified
In blockading such country or port
The action of the United States in the
Civil "ar in hInrD In xbo D~Sk t.t>
island Of Bermuda is cited as a war
rant for the action of the British gov
ernment in preventing goods from
reaching Germany from the United
States through Denmark, Holland or
Sweden. The original American
blockade on the west side Of Ber-
murda proved deficient, the Ameri-
can warships were stationed on the
west side and throughout the remain
der or the war no goods were per-
mitted to reach Bermuda that might
be transshipped to the Confederate
states. That action was sustained by
the United States supreme court.
The new note makes the point that
the only way to ascertain the real
destination Of supplies from America
consigned to neutral countries of
northern Europe is to consider the
amount Of the goods consumed in
their normal trade, for 1t Is contend
ed that they are so much in fear of
Germany that they fail to prevent the
reshipment Of such goods into Ger
many.
On July IT the United States gave
notice that 1t did not accept the or
der in council as a substitute for in
ternational law, so far as it affected
American commerce.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-29

board has not completed it's plans, it
Is understood authoritatively that at
least thirty submarines and possibly
fifty will be asked Of congress when
the reports are submitted. Work on
ships now building is to be rushed.
The general boards recommends
tions are also expected to include a
number of battle cruiser, minimum
OF four dreadnoughts and proper
tionate number of scout cruisers and
auxiliary craft, such as fuel ships and
submarine tenders.
The department Is engaged with
experiments with aeroplanes and sub
marines and also with attempts to
find a practical means Of defense for
battleships against torpedoes. The
experts are said to be spending one
hundreds thousand dollars in an eff
fort to solve this problem.
1t Is thought several additional
small navy yards to serve as subma-
rine bases would be suggested. Such
a program would carry with it of
necessity an increase in navy per-
sonnel and probably the enlargement
Of the naval academy at Annapolis.
High officials Of tho navy say that
a tentative program has been agreed
upon as to battleships, battle cruisers
and submarines.
The new program asks for two ad-
ditional hospital ships. two new fuel
ships and such number of subma-
rines as will bring that arm Of the
navy up to about one hundred SUI
marines, most Of which are to be fit
ted with three-inch guns and the
larger sea-going type, Of the Schley
class. with several guns Of larger
calibre.
A decided change on the issue OF
battle cruisers has developed. One
Of the experts said that the develop
ment Of aircraft as scouts, offensive
and defensive, has diminished the
necessity for the high speed battle
cruisers. 1t Is expected that the pro-
gram to be submitted to the president
will be for at least six new battle
ships OF the modern type.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-29
AMERICAN SHIP TORPEDOED; .
GERMAN SUBMARINE ATTACKS
London Barely Announces Destruc-
ton Of Steamships on Monday
of Coast Of Scotland.

London, Monday: The American
steamship Leelanaw, from Archangel
July for Belfast with a cargo of
flax. was sunk Monday by a German
submarine off the northwest coast Of
Scotland. All members OF the crew
Of the Leelanaw were saved. They
we're brought into Kirkwall in their
own boats.
The Leelanaw was owned by the
Leelanaw Steamship company. OF
New York She was formerly the
Earnwell. She was 280 feet long
and of 1924 gross tons. She left
Galveston May 1 5 and New York May
Alt with a cargo OF cotton for Arch
Sangel. early in June she was de-
tanned by the British at Kirkwall
where her cargo was consigned by
way Of Gothenburg, Sweden, which
country forbids the export of cot
ton.
Having discharged her cargo at
Archangel the Leelanaw was return
Ing when sunk.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-29
RUSSIAN ARMY DESTROYED;
GERMANS CROSS THE NAREW
Berlin Reports Two Great Victories
Won by Gen. Won Buelow and
Gen. Won Hindenberg.

London reports: Two great battles
have been won by the Germans, one
in Northern Poland and one due
north of Warsaw, where Won Hin
denberg has crossed the Narew.
Berlin reports: Gen Won Buelow
has defeated the fifth Russian army
near Shawl. After ten days of con-
tinuous fighting and marching the
Germans troops succeeded in arrest
Ing the retreat of the Russians in the
district of Rozalin-Szalow and defeat
ed and dispersed them.
The booty since the beginning of
these operations on July fourteenth
has increased to twenty-five cannon,
forty machine guns. more than one
hundred were loaded with ammuni-
tion, great quantity of baggage and
other war material.
The startling news from the Rus
sian war theatre, the capture of the
strong fortresses of Rozan and Pull
tusk, the piercing OF the Narew line
and the taking Of twelve thousand
prisoners within ten days, is over
shadowing everything else
Flags are out everywhere and the
tension Of the German people who are
expecting decisive battle which may
decide the whole war, is enormous.
Hindenberg with Mackensen, should.
according to the military writer's, ac-
complish important results.
London reports: Field Marshal Won
Buelow after a chase of ten days has
practically wiped out the Fifth Rus
sian army, according to an Official
statement received from Berlin. The
battle which took place in the region
of Ros' 'eny and Schadow ended with
the German artillery lowing up the
Russian defenses and the German
cavalry dashing in among the panic
stricken Russians who were cut down
by the horsemen as they flew in a
wild rout in all directions.
Great numbers Of prisoners and
stores of booty have been taken, ac-
cording to advises from Berlin, all of
which it so far has been impossible
to classify. This army which has
been reinforced by an entire army
corps, Is now sweeping northward.
In what the German official report
describes as an Irresistible attack"
the troops under Won Hindenberg
stormed the fortified city of Pultusk
and the strong positions at Rozan,
forced passage at, the Narew on a
wide front between these two points,
and are now prepared for an advance
against the Bug, last barrier to War
saw.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-29
WILL RETURN FIRE
American Troops Ordered to Prevent
Shooting Across Border.

Gen. Carranza and Gen. Villa have
been notified by the state department
that the United States army will de-
fend Americans from attack, acci-
dental or otherwise. by the forces Of
either Mexican leader at Naco and at
Nogales, towns on the Mexican bor-
der.
1t Is understood that IL the Mexi-
can factions at Naco engage again in
fighting so as to endanger American
lives, the United States artillery will
stop the fighting. Department Off
cials say that no plan of invasion,
even temporary, is involved, but that
the fighting forces will be driven a
safe distance from any town where
the Mexicans repeat the forbidden
tactics.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-29
WARSAW HAS BEEN OBJECT
Of MUCH FIGHTING In WAR
IN Struggling for Poland's Capital
German Troops Swayed Back
ward and Forward.

From the beginning Of the war,
Warsaw, the capital of Russian Po-
land, has been the objective of the
German armies in the eastern thea
tire. The famous drive of the Rus
slams westward through Eastern
Prussia, only to meet with disaster
at Tannesberg, had a sympathetic Sc
quel in the south, where, on Novem-
Der 10, the Russian lines actually
penetrated Posen.
Since then, however, and down to
the middle of February. the Germans
had thrice advanced and retreated
between Warsaw and the frontier, SO
that on the foregoing date they
formed almost semicircle around
the city. Later the lines were gradu-
ally Strengthened so as to form an
ar gle, with point twenty miles due
west OF Warsaw as it's vortex. For
the last five months during the Ger
man drives in the direction of Riga
in the north and the Russian sweep
through Galicia in the south up to
the last Of April, and then the re-
treat from the Carpathians to the
Polish frontier, the lines around
Warsaw have remained about the
same. Only when, during the last
thee weeks, the pressure northeast
and southeast Of the city increased,
has the angle become smaller.
Until then the name of Warsaw
had hardly been mentioned in the
dispatches since the middle Of last
October, when thousands of German
prisoners passed through it on their
way east. On these prisoners were
round post cards ready written an
bouncing to their home addresses
that Warsaw would be taken on the
fifteenth Of October, the birthday of
the Emperor William, as q fitting
present on the imperial anniversary.
Warsaw is a railway junction of
lines radiating east and west-three
In one general direction and four in
the other. The easterly ones 60 to
Petrograd via Bialystok, Grodno, and
wilma to Siedlic; and to Ivangorod
and Lublin and along the Galician
frontier. Thus most the supplies
that have reached the Russian army
retreating through Galicia have had
to pass through Warsaw. The three
lines on the west go to Ostrolenka,
on the East Prussian frontier; to the
German fortress of Thorn via Lo-
wicZ and kutno, and to Pietrkow via
Skierniewice. These last concentrat-
Ing lines have measurably aided the
Germans to bring a large body of
troops to the western front of War
saw.
This front has not yet been broken
because OF the level lands almost en-
bracing the city on the western side
for distance Of twenty miles. Due
west of the city there Is broad
marsh over which the guns of the
outer forts have full play; northwest
and southwest there were forests
which. being leveled in the early
days of the war, now form similar
difficult approaches.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-29
ALLIES ARE UNEASY
Fear There is Something Behind
Turk Grant to Bulgaria.

London, Monday: Some uneasiness
is being caused in diplomatic circles
Of the entente allies by the report
not yet officially confirmed. that
Turkey cas- ceded to Bulgaria the
Turkish portion of the Dedagatch
railroad. Sofia reports this cession
will have no effect on Bulgarian neu-
trality, but the belief is expressed in
London that Turkey would not be
likely to give up such valuable terri
tory Without the promise OF substan-
tial aid from Bulgaria.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-29
CHICAGO EXCURSION STEAMER
SINKS AT ITS DOCK
MANY THROWN into SEA
Loaded With $500 Passengers
Steamer Eastland Attempts to Be-
gin Trip But Slowly Lists and
Turns Over in Five Minutes
River Filled With Bodies.

The bodies Of 901 persons, drown
Cd when the steamship Eastland cap
sized Saturday at it's wharf in the
Chicago river, had been recovered
Sunday night after forty hours of
searching by divers.
The total decd d was put at approx
smately one thousand by Coroner
HoffT~ an of Chicago, whose reports
indicated that possibly one hundred
bodies were held in the mud Of the
river by the superstructure of the
boat. While only 1902 of tho 2,40S
passengers of the Ea3tland have reg
istered as saved, 1t was thought that
about AIS survivors, including the
crew of seventy-two, had failed to re-
port.
The Esstland lies on her side with
divers still floundering through her
interior and burrowing under her in
. death search, while Chicago, appal
led, Is just beginning to grasp the
significance OF one of the greatest of
marine disasters.
While the grieving thousands who
lost relatives walked through the
morgue in the Second regiment ar
nory gazing into the faces Of the
dead, Chicago citizens end city, State
and federal officials turned their at
tention to investigations Of the catas-
trophe and the work Of providing re-
lief for those left destitute.
While no families wore made
wholly dependent by tho disaster, 1t
was said many victums had been
working only half time or less in re-
cent months. Several men who made
this report, in asking for aid, were
xxyhx h. rka 49,
sion while in poor financial circum-
stances.
They replied that an organization
OF employees gave the picnic and that
experience had taught them it was
best to buy tickets, IL they desired
preferment for work. They said the
company had nothing to do with this
condition or the management Of the
excursion, but that members Of the
employees organization found pur-
chase Of tickets for the annual lax g
trip almost compulsory.
- Various theories as to what caused
the Eastland to turn over were dis
cussed. The four considered most
probable we're:
That the boat was overloaded: that
she was not properly ballasted; that
. tug that made fast to warp the
Eastland from the docks started pull
ing too soon; that congestion of pas
sengers rushing to the port side at
tracted by some passing sensation
tipped the steamer over.
Electric company officials said that
not more than one-third of the VIC
} Tins were employees, the others be-
ing members Of employees families
or friends.
Stories by witnesses and survivors
cleared many details of the catastro-
phe. All the Eastland's passengers,
except two or three hundred who
clung to the starboard rail or climb
ed out the starboard portfolios, were
thrown into the river, crushed into
the Shiny mud Of the bottom or i'm
prisoned between decks.
Listing Of the boat was noticed,
some said, fifteen minutes before she
turned over. Capt. Peterson said five
minutes. When full realization came
the slow list had become ON over
turn. Men. girls, women and chill
Continued on last page
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-29
Bavarian Kings Asserts Power

Although 1t has been claimed that
the German emperor alone has the
right to create field marshal, the
king OF Bavaria has created a sensa-
tion In Germany by appointing the
kaiser a marshal in the Bavarian
army. The new marshal accepted the
appointment.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-29
Submarines Active Sunday.

One French steamer. a British
steamer and FIVE trawlers were sent
TO the bottom by German submarines
Sunday. The crews Of most of them
were Saved.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-29
One Thousand Mexicans Killed.

Americans arriving at Laredo, Tex
as, say that in recent fighting around
villa Garcia resulted In over a thou
sand slain, the casualties being ap-
parently evenly divided.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-29
Wilson Hunts Quiet to WORK.

President Wilson Ia again at Cor
nish, N. H., where no arrived Satur-
day, saying he did not come for O
vacations, but "for an uninterrupted
opportunity 10 work"
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-29
Note Receives Comment. !
What It's Fall Means,

ThN.general tone OF the English
press u to praise the stand Of the
note sent to Germany, but the com
ment IN nmany is somewhat un.,
fayorab
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-07-29

WON Wires Coi toIences.
R5a1 - haA extended his
- sorrow to
cent disaster
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-06-21

CHARGES
WILDCAT
NANCE.

With allegations of involved
and frenzied finance almost too
complicated to comprehend, A.
NJ. Leopold of Seattle today ap-
piled for receiver, in the King
county courts, for the Home Oil
Co., the Inter-Ocean Oil & Gas
Co. and for B. H. Mason, Eugene
Church, w. H. Young, A. NJ.
Slauecher, r. Il. Mahaffe and the
Pacific Coast Finance Co., all OF
whom have operated in Tacoma.
He alleges that all are in a plot
to defraud creditors.
His allegations were that Ma
son, head of the Home Oil Co.,
had transferred all assets of this
concern to the Inter- Ocean Oil &
Gas Co., which in turn had trans
ferred 1t to the Pacific Coast
Finance Co., of which Young,
Slauecher and Mahaffey appear
as responsible members.
Leopold himself claims to have
$500 claims against the Home Oil
Co.; and that this company had,
before the involved transferring
began, 100 acres at Vale, Ore.
100 acres within "a mile of the
Crescent well, Tenino; Gao acres
between the Washington and JEFF
ferson wells. Hob river; 1880
acres In King county.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-06-21
TO REPLACE
STREET CARS
With AUTOS

The Puget Sound Traction,
Light q Power Co, of which the
Tacoma Railway & Power Co. is
the local branch, Will engage in
the jltney business in Tacoma
some time in the near future.
The Stone Webster corporation
has already entered the interur-
ban business, operating a Taco
ma-Puyallup bus, as was an
nounced in The Times several
months ago, and a service at Au-
burn.
Seattle will have an elaborate
jitney service, operated by the
street car corporation, in the near
future, according to an announce
ment made there Saturday night,
and Manager Bean of the T. r. &
p. co. admitted today that his
company was seriously contem-
plating the Inauguration of like
service here.
Self Defense
"Of course we can't go into the
jitney business as extensively as
the Seattle street car company in
tends to-" said Manager Bean to-
day, but If the jitney competi.
tion continues to make inroads on
our revenues as 1t already has be-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-06-21

gun to do, we must enter the
field in self Defense"
According to the tentative
plans, the T. II. e. p. Co. will have
small, pay-as-you-enter jitneys,
with uniformed drivers. The ma
chimes will compete with the pres
ent jitney buses on the short
haul routes, preferably Point
Defiance, Sixth avenue and South
Tacoma.
What Public Wants
BY operating titneys the
street ear company will avoid
paying the gross earnings tax inn
posed on street cars, and would
not have to keep up street pav-
ing and street repair work.
1t would avoid an annual pay
ment to the city OF at least
$4,000 a year, 1t is estimated,
and its only tax would be the lit
ney license tax and the state auto
tax.
We're simply forced to fight
back in self Defense" said Bean.
Our revenue is greatly decrease
ed through the jitney competi.
tion, and we must fight back by
giving the public the kind OF
service 1t wants"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-06-21
CHURCHES JOIN in
TRIBUTE TO WILSON

With sermons in most of Ia
coma's churches yesterday, the
Woodrow Wilson day observance,
suggested and carried through by
The Times, was brought to a sue
cessful close yesterday.
In addition to brief mention
from most of the pulpits, the day
was formally recognized when u.
e. Harmon of the First Christian
church at the evening service pro-
posed that period be taken to
consider the patience and ability
with which President Wilson had
handled this nations foreign az
fairs. A prayer for the president
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-06-21

safety followed.
A number of business men
phoned and wrote in their con-
gratulations to The Times today
of the success which attended ito
efforts to center the attention OF
the community on the president 8
work. Among those who did so
were James II. Dege.
Admiral Pond, stationed at
Bremerton, sent the following
telegram:
would have been pleased to
take part in your Wilson day cele-
bration, but the order authorizing
me to do so came at 6 p. M, just
,too late"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-06-21

$25, 900, actors plunged into the
water to simulate drowning VIC
tins. Williams leaps in and
swims out to save Anita.
But the actors had forgotten
the locomotive boiler was likely
to explode. 1t did. 1t blew up,
showering a geyser of water high
into the air, and Williams and
Miss Stewart. and several others,
were nearly drowned before they
could be pulled out. The explo-
sion is shown in the picture.
However, in the picture Will
Jams gets Anita out just as the
muddy water is closing over her
unconscious form and takes her
to shore.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-06-21
ATLANTA MODS
THEATEN life
OF LEO FRANK

did right" said Gov. Slaton
in a preliminary statement
following the communication
OF sentence over Frank.
"All l ask Is that the peO-
pie OF Georgia read my state
ment and consider calmly
the reasons that I have given
for committing the mans
sentence to life imprisOn-
ment. Feeling as l do about
the case, would be q MUIR
derer IL l allowed this man to
hang.
ut means I must live in
obscurity the rest of my
days, but l would rather be
Flowing fields than feel for
the rest of my life that 1 had
a mans blood upon my
hands,"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-06-21

year old son, who returned home.
With a younger brother, he noti-
fled a neighbor family and a
physician at Sumner, who hurried
to the scene of the assault.
Medical assistance Immediately
was rushed to Mrs. Koenig.
1t is likely that help wilt ac-
company Deputy Stenso back to
the scene this afternoon. The
warrant probably will be made out
for the present as charging as
sault with intent to kill.
Koenig has been examined by
police authorities before, but was
allowed to return to his home.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-06-21

today, its going to be COM
munity school, not children's
school. . : !.
I'm addition to the training Il
gives the farmers in agriculture,
and the housewives in domestic
science, 1t will serve as a meet
iLg-place for societies of all sorts.
Eatonville has a population OF
perhaps 500. And 1t will put up
practically 500 a head for its
fine new school plant.