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There are seventeen documents ~ IN"
CORE, ,poudeucr, covering ~ I'll thl'lN-
two tNprW .'ttcn page.
The hrs, document is a memorandum
from \mba ssadol lagc ia l.oudon to e
British fo'el"u piir" enclosing letter
d,Ird October ~ from the American
I.rgatiou At Elusscls with report on
The taNeN case.
,,orumcut two Is - letter from Brand
Whitlock. United states MlnsIc' tu Bel
pum. to Baron l.auCkcu, at Brussels,
dated AUGUST 81. asking for confirmation
of the arrest of Miss taNoll and also
TN. grounds upon which the arrest Was
made.
Document three !, memorandum i'm
French from Mi Whitlock to Bar Ii
I.uuckru. under date Of Sept"mher 10,
asking Cur "A reply to Minister Whit.
locks letter of August 81, and addiug
that Mr.. Whitlock had been urged lay
telegraph to take M with I" least pos
sihlr delay th' defence of Miss 'aycll
pncumcnt -four - "a letter from Baron
I.ancken To Minister Whtl0ck, ditco
September ~, stating that Miss taN"l
was arrested on August and incal-
rcrated IN the military prison at st
GilleS The letter continues
"Shc admitted having concealed in h"i
housc various English and French sol
dicrs, as well as Bclglans, who were oi
! military age, aud all Of Whom were
anxious To proceed To the front Sho
also acknowledged that she had sup
! piled these soldiers with funds neccs
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TIGER STARTS FIGHT
ON CONSTITUTION
Smith. Wagner and Foley De.
nOunce Provisions at Rati-
ficatiOn Meeting.
LOAD FOR CITY TO BEAR

Tammany Hall denounced the revised
Constitution last night. While the or
ganization ratified the nominations OF
the Democrats for various offices, the
speakers were emphatic In their disap-
pro>al Of the document prepared by the
constitutional convention.
In picturesque phrases and striking
argument Alfred Z. Smith. Democratic
candidate for sheriff. State Senator Rob-
ert r. Wagner and James A. Foley put
forth their arguments agains, the new
Constitution after other speakers had
given a rousing reception to Judge Ed
ward Swami. Democratic cand date for
District Attorney.
The attacks were greeted with cheers,
applause and stamping of feet by hum
dreds Of voters who ;hronged the hall
Mr.. Smith discussed the article OF the
Constitution dealing with the apportion-
ment OF Assernblynsen and asserted that
the new article would give to New York
despite her great population. no more
members of the lower house than the
present Constitution accortls
He read the first proposal made in the
convention FOR giving Sew York not
more than One-half of the Senators and
one-ha.f OF .he Assemblymen in the
Legislature.
Then one day Senator Bracket said
that they might he willing to give us a
! popular Assembly and restricted Sen
ate" explained Mr.. Smith. II told them
that not being able to get whole Loaf
We would he willing to take less But
| within short time notice was served
! on the leader that this was Republican
/ convention and not to forget himself and
give in 20 a couple OF young fellows from
: Tammany Hall. SO afterward I was
told that we could not have what W.
1 wanted. one Of the delegates told me
( ~ you fellows want that you better sc
| and ge; a convention OF y6ur own"
Mr.. Smith said that the trainers oi
! the Constitution phrascd an article r--
! lating to the apport!onmeut OF Legislators
! that is in substance the same as in the
I present Constitution. They are afraid
J TO tell New York in SO many words
: asserted Mr.. Smith. that New York ci,y
, cannot control the Legislature"
: Senator Wagner in his speech charged
I that the Republican delegates wout
vote one way on one day and then at IN.
direction OF President Root of the con
vention they would change their vote.
| II can cite many Incidents" nc said
"to show that this was not a non
PARTISAN convention"
Judge Swami. who was greeted with
cheers. whistlng and enthusiastic ap'
plause. said that he intended to re-
organize the District Attorneys offics
when elected as he expects to be.
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COMPROMISE ON SHIP BILL.
Provisions Planned 10 Keep Out
Government Rs Competitors.

WAsHiNGroS, oct. administration
officials are considering changes in the
McAdoo plan for "A Government owned
merchant marine which may pave the
way for the passage of the measure ~
the next Congress, The changes by
which the President may meet the oppo-
siton of Democrats in the House and
Senate project are
First. a provision defining the specific
object OF the measure as the develop
ment Of trade with the Latin American
countries. or. at most with the Latin
American countries and the Orient, thus
insuring against Government competition
with other American lines,
Second. "A provision that the Govern
ment shall not permanently engage in
the shipping business. but that when
trade lines are fully established the Gov
ernment shall withdraw.
Some Of the Presidents advisers be
leve he will assent to a harmony plan Of
this character. as the shipping bill IN the
form suggested by Mr.. McAdoo seems To
have u rocky road ahead even IN the
Democratic party.
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Du the entire front We are puISu.
ing the slowly r,treating enemy.
The Serbs haN" been driven south
from positions south and east of
Ripanj,
Our advance guards have reached
StepOIayct2, LCshuNatz and Baht.
West of the MoraNa We are push
ing forward by way OF Srhcvdtz
The BulGars fighting in the sector of
Ncgotin have reached the Taitchar-
krjazheVatg highway
IN, first indication Of the present
whereabouts of the French troops march.
in. to Serbia's AID comes IN "A despatcl,
received by the Ddiig Udii from its
Salonica correspondent filed yesterday
He reports that the French troups
have crossed the Yards River at Kriyo.
lax, twelve miles south of lstlp. with tn.
object of cutting the bulgarian retreat
or lstip.
This report il accurate, foresha dows
an early clash between the French anc
Bulgarlans.
The same despatch says that Bul
continued on Second Page.
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Recognized Mebb's Voice.

Mr. Webb did all of the talking. Most
OF his words wer. caught by Shreevc
at Paris for the cable from Shreeve yes
terday coniirming the success of the test
stated that ne had heard Mr.. Webb re-
peat Hello, Shreeve.' several times and
also count, and that he had heard other
words talking lasted several min
utcs--and then distinguished, "(iood-hy.
Shreeve' repeated several times Lloyd
Espensheid the observer at Honolulu,
reported by cable that he too had
heard Hello, Shreeve" "Good-by.
Shreevc." He said that he could
easily recognize Webbs voice The COM
munication with Honolulu, 800 miles
il seems, was more favorable than tlat
with Paris because there was less static
Interference,
"Thc use of the Eifrel Tower, even for
n few minutes day" said Mr. tarty,
was "A most extraordinary courtesy, he
cause II * used almost exclusively for
military PURPOSES. Due To military nc-
cessitIeS the amount Of time available"
for wireless telephone experiments was
so limited as to constitute serious
handicap to "A speedy completion OF tn"
work. Added to this was the handicap
resulting from III" fact that all regul?t
communication between Mr.. Shreeve and
the engineers in America had to be by
ca bl.. and was subject to long delays.
Were it not for the conditions OF war
existing in Europe the accomplishment.
of wireless telephony across the Atlantic
would undoubtedly have preceded the
much more difficult fact of transmission
To Honolulu. Officers of the French
Government have listened to and verified
the results obtained week ago and
repeated since Mr. Curtiss's cable re-
ported the speech heard by Mr. Shreeve
and the time of its reception. The mat
ter received was that sent from Airing
ton"
Mr. carty said that talking with Paris
was not as difficult, electrically consid-
cred, as talking to san Francisco he
cause wireless telephoning across noun
talns Is more difficult iut the ac-
tivlty of high powered wireless stations
near the ltiTcl Tower interfercs with
speech communication and makes en-
| traordinary confusion. The test oi
! course was of speech in only one dircc-
| ton because Arlington has the only
! transmitting apparatus. The greatest
| difficulty In talking with Paris was in
! getting power and getting a free period
The range Of the wireless telephone
! experiments. said Nj. 'arly, represent
a circle with "A diameter of 10000 miles
! The communications last night wer,
clear, as were those of several weeks
| EouiiuuCI ou EOuyfh Iu1f
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I.uNpoN. oct. 2l.--Th" ofhc.al '"ffe-
,pouden,. of tn, American Legation IN
Brussels IN connection with the arrest
trial and execution by Ia, German mill
,ary authorities in Brussels of Miss
Edith Cavel., an English nurse, CONSISTS
Of seventeen documents, covering IN al
,hity-tWo typcw,itten pages.
Minister Whi,loJk AID attaches "i the
American Legation detail the futil" ell
forts made 10y tie American officials
with the active cooperation Of tn" span
Isb Minister, to ubta-l even a brief re-
s,!te for the woman until the appeh
made on her behalf 10y Minister NhiloiR
could be souHIdrrcd.
Hugh Gibson, Secr' tdiy uI the \h'e'-
,an LEGATION At Brussels, in the course
of , report made 10y him I" Minister
Whitlu,k. says n" was Informed AT IN"
polItisch. Abteiluug tpulitical depart
m.nt, at 20 T., NJ, on ortoter H.
that sentence had not yet pteh l'"-
,ouu,ad and was assured that the leSa-
lion would hc kept informed "t d"N''-
otun,utS in the ease. although MISS 'aN
ell already had been s"hteh''" w
executed during that nsht.
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BERLIN. via Amsterdam, oct. 2l.---
During one period of the recent great
battle at Loos toward the end OF Sep
tember, the British fell at the rate Of
100 men a second, asserts the Deutsche
TdgesscifunD.
The paper likens the fighting to that
in a Napoleonic battle before the days
OF machine guns or long range cannon.
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ALLIES SEEK QUICK
REPLY FROM GREECE
Will Allow Her to Choose Her
Time for Intervention
if She Consents.
THREATS OF REPRISALS
Special CaJi. Dsspatch to THl sr>

ROME. oct. 2l.--THE StN'S CORE
sponden; is Informed through diplomatic
sources that the Entente Allies are
threatening to take rcprisals against
Greece unless formal ASSURANCES are
given before the expirailo of short
time limit that she will not intervene in
favor OF Austria Hungary. Germany and
Turkey in any case.
then Greece. and Rumania as well. are to
be allowed 10 choose their own time for
Intervention.
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WARNS HIDDEN SOLDIERS
German Go>crnOr OF BcluiUm Bids
Them Intern Or he Shot.
Speciai Cobie Despatch 10 TnE Sr>

AMSTERDAM. via London. oct. ell
Gov -Gen. Won Kissing has issued proc
lamation ordering all enemy soldiers hid
ing In Belgium to report within twenty
-four hours for internment in Germany,
"Evaders and all suspected of harbor-
ing them will b. shot" the pIOclama-
tion announces.
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.I..- ~ ha' tine cities were and how
r.. V''r .yrN"d took up neatly two
AMI 20 Iali of the morning session.
' Ut- tu this examination that II
II.. Hprt.tut that the witness was
OnI.- the Guy'ruments case, or so
Z .'''unu"ut representatives thought.
ri.'N.Ua "' Tho packing house traffic TO
N'N E'l Iud. Nj Melcn was asked II
." NN Work. and New Eugaud RAJ
."Na "t which hr arctmc general mana
-r. u0 lN'-. -ot q sha'e
.'. got whatever the New Haven
Got ',- tin un~ wor, Let me explain:
IT." Nv lori aud New England Rail
'''' 1872 lN"" Nls au adjunct or an ex-
.'n.t'I NJ the Sow York. New Haven
l''r"p'd Railroad, practically moth
..- ,l.c"
nNl" later IN" replied to aues-
100. $50. ,h" New Haven could have
.'" without the Sew England. but the
N'" lH-laud could not have lived with
'ii 'I' Sew Haven" AZ one
"' .h" uiargos iu the indictment Is that
..' NrN Haven directors conspired to
l-' m" commerce of New England
.' .uS over the Sew I:ngland ra ilroad,
'r '-N"r seemed to please all the
''.'.1u'~ \ little later there came
.."hrr answer which pleased the di-
DEBTORS ou trial The witness decla red
' 'n' competition between the New
.. -.a q end the New Haven in 1890 was
''r worst case Of cuithroat competition
''' 'ui any experience with in forty
'HH. sa.r-'
I".' HIur another series OF answers
N"'n ".ghi have come from wit
''- i"r h' defence Mr.. Swacker was
I''. l"'|'g
. I'Y Hou know whether the New
'".. N"w Haven and Hartford Rail
.I nlupauy leased the New York,
''. ''"'" aud Boston Railroad about
''H"' A. II leased the New
.'. 'ud Providence some time In
." February or March. 1899.
"'H" | became general manager
'HD sew England
g. bu sou know of any change
'. Wa. made 10y the leas. In tho
'''.H' oi tn" traffic THAI had been
I.- over ia" New York and New
'H.' dud Ia" New Haven? A.
'|" New Haven by the lease
' "dd extended It's line to New
''' nd about "iGhly-hyc miles
: ' ''" drur", naturally wanting to
gov "' Long haui on its business, and
'''. lac liIc by way of PrOvi-
g. l't ANY chs nge follow the shore
tpGtEH"d on F0urth Page.
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Nh Mel!en was the only witness yes-
,erday, and I'm all likelihood he Will not
finish h,s testimony to-day Up to this
time and In this first instalment he u
tr..ify.ng only as TO facts during the
,ci.ud te'we,n 1880 and lsg1, when.
after h,.ug general manager of the New
Yor, ana New England and Nice-pres-
ito1' pf ,l, New Haven. he went TO the
Northern Pacific FOR s.N years. He Will
tAk. ny the history OF his presidency
strictly speaking Mr. Mellen was not
IN iAr WI'Uc~s chair. Instead he stood
a ,l. foot of the little dHis. his hands
Dt~p"d hthud him, speaking much III
o.. manner Of a student rsciting a well
l,ru,d lesson. A. on the previous day.
when 10 came to telling about rah-
.uHd 800 New England, long line or short
.g, ur freight service, 4 Junction or
ANYTHING like that, the answers came
without q moments hesitation. 1t was
oH', when II came to the conversations
gr8 understandings OF l>92 that he for
go lId i've knew he did not know as
G4.kIy .s q quest ton was asked him.
NJ. -vacSeg ad ~ witness still on
/. subject OF the one tim" freight lines.
t, Uur~ which routed over selected roads
t.I solicited their own business. This
- loo the days. IL MAS said, when a
ti,.u".> man could not route his own
aI..u'ss, but had to depend upon mid
ol"n,u. MI Mellen knew all these old
NH.-. and after hr told about them the
',p},murut representative had him de-
-. 10, every large city IN New England.
. Nti r.!'. oddS .ucl city had and what
the r'r.., Imported and exported. The
r.t.'-- tpld about every ono Of them,
'.oW Boston down t" Rochester y. IL,
".e. with truly M.ll.ueSque express
-HI tine Witness described as "a nice
.'.r Gown. Al cut NJ with railroad
90 u-- but without very much busi-
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kELLEN J0LTS
CASE OF j. S.
ASA WITNESS
I, called "IIOstilc to the
Government" by Prose-
cutor Swacker.
TELLS OF EARLY WORK
WITH THE NEW HAVEN

charles : Mellen might have been
witness for the defence of the eleven
directors Of the New Haven yesterday
instead Of the star of the Governments
,asc had it not been for documentary
,y.l,r.c which the prosecution was en-
abcd To- introduce into eridence--the
,r,partitc agreement of 1872. its supple
ment Of 1885 and the Corsair agreement
NJ 1923 These refer to traffic agree
r,,nts over the Grand Central terminal
spl the division of New England rail-
road territory between the New Haven
and the Boston and Maine.
outside Of that, Mr.. Mellen had, in
,b, language of one lawyer. thrown
lambs into the Governments case for
, matter of four hours. He mad de-
,larcd that the railroads absorbed by
tho New Haven were only adjuncts Of
in. line and dependents upon II. lie
had sworn that the service for New
England points was vastly improved
nv other ,bsorptions or consultations.
certain independent lines he spoke OF
,s nuisance properties notably the
Housatonic passenger service into Brook
i'm by way Of oyster Bay. Competition
b-tyrcu the New York. New England
and Ia, New Haven he declared TO he
,utthroit In short he so testified that
Frank NJ Swacker. chief of the special
Assistant At;urueys-Generh FOR tn,
prosecution. declared him to be wit
ness hostile to the Government
The day lett the defence apparently
we'll pleased with the situation. They
profess To- see nothing in the tripartit'
agreement executed many years ago ana
a. for the So allied Corsair agreement.
which Was 4 method by which the late
J T.. Morgan brought about the END
Of "a disastrous railroad war in Ne"
Eugltnd. they declare 1t has nothing 10
dn WIN general commerce.
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BLUE EYED BOY WAIF ADOPTED BY
MR.. AND MRS. FINLEY j. SHEPARD
Found Year Ago in st. Pat
rick's Cathedral When
; Years Old.
GOULD MILLIONS
MAY COME TO HIM

WHITE PLAINS, y. Y. Oct. 2l.--Adop-
ton papers were filed in the westchester
County Clerks office here to-day giving
custody to Finley J. Shepard and his
wife. Mrs. Helen Gould Shepard, of
John Doe No. lO4. alias Austin Nc
Cleary." a four-year-old founding dis
covered on the steps OF ST. Patrick $
Cathedral, New York, September II,
1914.
Who the boy is that has come so
strangely into the Affection Of Mrs
Shepard and her husband and int,
line for the heritage of the Gould estate,
what his antecedents were. how he came
to he homelsss-of these things there is
40 trace. When picked up in the shadow
of the cathedral late in the evening last
September, he said his father had left
him there and told him to wait After
ward he said 1t was not his father. but
Il strange man. He did not know where
his home was and his name, as nearly
as the baby words could be distin.
guished. was Austin McCleary."
AT any rate as this. alias John Doe
l0i. he went on the official records
He was kept at the Chldren's Society
until October ?, 1914, when he was taken
before Justice Hoyt in the Children
Court and sent to st. Christophers Home
AZ nobbs Ferry. He has been there ever
s.nce, with the exception OF visits paid
to the Shepards.
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AsHENIiLE, \. C.-"The Land Of the Sky"
New irain-superb service--via SOUTHERN
RAILWAY. Lv. y Y. l:0s 4. ". daily COM
ado,
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Surrogate Sawyers order rrcitcs
"That said infant child has been aban-
doncd hN its parents, and Furthermore
l. being satisfied that the moral and tenn
porul interests Of said child Will be
promoted by allowing and confirming
the adoption for the reason that the
said proposed foster parents are per-
sons of good moral character and of
reputable standing in the community
and of sufficient means to properly
maintain and educate said child
II concludes with confirmation of the
adoption and the wish of the foster par
ents that the child be known as Finley
jay Shepard The entire collection OF
papers are entered in the court record
under the caption: Adoption of John
Doe. No lO4, alias Austin Mccleary.
by Finley j. shepard and Helen -.
Shepard"
Little would DE said by the officials
Of II. CLristopher's Home about the boy
last evening beyond the story Of his be-
ing found ON the cathedral steps, The
Rev. B. W. Brown, head of the home,
asked that all connected with II he en-
cuscd from speaking. as they wished al.
information to come from the Shepards
The home shelters orphans and is sup
ported 10y voluntary contributions. 1t is
connected indirectly with the Methods;
church. At present 800 children are
there.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Shepard Were married
at Lyndhurst, January 26 1913. theiI
I engagement having been announced q
/ little over u month before. Mr. Shepard
had been assistant To President Bush oi
! the Missouri Pacific lines at st. Louis
before the marriage, hut afterwar,
| moved to New York The engagement
! and wedding came as a surprise to the
many friends of Miss Gould. AS she
! had been always wrapped up In philan
| thropic work and II was supposed tina
! she was too busy to think OF matri
/ mony. She inherited from her father
! Jay Gould, the Gould home on FIN
avenue with all 1t contained, $4,000 4
| month household expenses and 10000
( OOO of his estate, which placed hel
among the richest women In the world
| At the time of the marriage she wa
A and Mr.. Shepard 45 years old.
The Shepards have only recently re
| turned to Lyndhurst from Itoxbury, n
v, where they spent the greater par
of the summer.
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SERBIANARMY
IN THE NORTH
NOW ISOLATED
Hard Pressed by Invaders,
Defenders Admit Their
Plight Is Serious.
BULGARS RECAPTURE
NRANJA: CUT RAILWAY


LONDON. oct 2l--The Bulgarians
have regalned and now hold the city
Of Vranja. on the Saonica- Nsh railway.
In addition to having cut Serbia's chief
railroad at this important point they
have captured Nlasotine. north OF
city and Nish. and have cut the railroad
due west Of Nlasotinc.
These Bulgarian successes are ad-
mitted by the Serbian War Office. Thus
:he Serbian army in the north. hard
pressed by the .>ustro- German invading
forces. is virtually isolated.
The allied forces sent to the aid OF
the northern Serbian army to save the
heart OF the little kingdom from being
overrun by the Teutonic and Bulgarian
invaders will have TO meet the Bul.
garians first and drive them from the
railroad.
The official report issued tonight at
Sofia follows:
BulHars Report Many Successes.
We are advancing in the T!mok
VALLEY
At Ncgotln We repulsed the Serbians.
VINO were put to flight, leaving one
officer and iifty men as prisoners IN
our hands. one officer and l50 Ser
hian soldiers were killed in tie Timok
Valley.
Near Prot we captured an import
ant strategical point on the N,dlic
Mountain range
Near Brangua we firmly established
ourselves In the valley Of the Bull
gar!an Morava lin Serbian territoryl,
The booty taken at Nranja includes
:."no,o00 rife cartridges. tobacco to
the valu. Of l,0o0. 900 francs tS200,-
0u0) and i.00o.0UO Kilograms OF hay.
We are advancing via Egri palanka.
where We attacked and repulsed the
Serbiaus. who are fleeing toward Ku-
manovo.
In the valley OF BregalnitZa our
offensive ls advancing in the whole
valley
We are in possession OF the plain
OF Dtsch--polie, where our cavalry dis
persed the Scrbians near kisseli TWO
thousand Serbans were taken pris-
B un.rs
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The serbian official report received
here tonight was a. follows
We have fallen back ON our defen-
Sive positions under pressure Of the
cnrmy's artillery.
The Bulrars have cut the railroad
near Nrduja and We have evacuated
ko"haua and lsttp.
The Bulgars are striving to prcNrn'
a junction between the Allies ana the
Serbs
Au eall.er official Serbian statcmen,
is>u-d at N'sh last g!ght foilow,
The situation grows more and more
serious. The resistance OF the SER
blan troops j. desperate and heroic,
hut the strong pressure OF the Aus
trians aud Germans from TIN north
and masses Of l5ulgarans from the
east is ncnacu2 seriously the Serbian
army. which H. now cut OF from S'a-
louica. The arrival of allied troops is
awaited anX X.ously.
r." Scthiaus in the north hold the
RnkhanatZ AlrNaudrovatZ Daihgoio-
bowl and the tsIgua-kosinai lines. and
the risnt bank of the Koloubara. ON
the eastern front they hold the Xait-
char-k -knlaZevat2 nirot-Nlasotinc line.
hut the Bu,earans have taken the
towns Of NranNa and Nulosso cutting
the lino to SaloniCa IN two places