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Evening star., 1915-05-28
Building Permits.

Building permits were issued today to
the following:
Leila A Duffin, to build dwelling on
Sheriff road. near 49th street northeast
architect and builder. C. H. Robertson
estimated cost, $500.
Robert Brown, to repair dwelling at
1151 Bates street northwest estimated
cost, S400.
D. w. Holton, to repair building at
11l0 Monroe street northwest; estimated
cost, ss7.
Charles Lowery, to repair dwelling at
2137 F street northwest estimated cost,
SIS.
High Paint Hardware Company, to re-
pair stable at 8l7 c street northeast; es-
timated cost, $780,
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AUSTRIAN STATEMENT.
via London, May 70,

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The following official communication
was issued last night:
In the northeastern theater Of war. in
the district around Peremysl. the al
lied troops in the bitter fighting are
making further progress. East of
Radynino parts of our 9th Corps cap
tured Nienowice and the heights of
Hosodysko, which the Russians OBJ
stinately defended. and took over
1000 prisoners and six guns.
Southeast Of Peremysl the allied troops
main defense position near Gouss-
kow, repulsing the Russians. We
captured $500 prisoners and eleven
machine guns. The fighting Is pro-
ceeding.
simultaneously the Austrian and Ger
man troops of Gen. Alexander Lin
sngen's army broke through the
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STEAMER la CHAMPAGNE
ASHORE At ST. NAzA|RE
French Transatlantic Liner Badly
Damaged, But Passengers Are
Reported Safe.

NANTES, France, May 2S. 40 pm
The steamer La Champagne of the French
Transatlantic line is ashore near St.
Nazaire. She is badly damaged. The
900 persons on board of her have been
taken off.
PARIS, May IS, . 80 p.m.-Officials of
the French line here say that all the pas
sengers on La Champagne have been
landed at St Nazaire, and that there is
no need of anxiety as to the safety of
the vessel They state she was not tor
pedoed.
The name of the steamer which took
OF La Champagne's passengers is un-
known at the company's offices in Paris
Representatives of the company express
the opinion that the stranding OF the
vessel was an accident.
Ran From Pan-American Ports.
La Champagne was engaged in trans
atlantic trade between Central and South
American ports and France. She was
last reported as having sailed from
Colon, May I.
The steamer was built in St. Nazaire
in 1886. Her net tonnage is S.06S. She
is 4e3 feet long, and So feet beam.
A plot to blow up La Champagne was
reported last February in a dispatch
from Madrid to a Paris newspaper.
According to this dispatch officers of
the vessel stated. on her arrival at
Corunna, Spain, from Mexico. that the
plot had been frustrated by a wireless
message received aboard the ship. This
message was said to have conveyed the
Information that a man on board. be-
lieved to be a German, intended to de-
stroy the vessel. The man was ar
rested and, the dispatch said. i've
dynamite bombs were found in his
trunk,
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BELGIAN STATEMENT.
HAvRE, May ..

HAVRE, May 2Ss
The Belgian official report given out
under date Of May % reads:
The artillery Of the enemy has bonn
barded our advance posts and the
village Of Costkerd. Our batteries
replied successfully, notably in the
direction of Schoore, where bursting
shells caused a fire and violent ex-
plosions.
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British Make ADJ
Under Long Sentence, Wants Pardon

PITTSBURGH, Pa. May 2S.-Helen
Boyle. now serving twenty -five-year
term in the western penitentiary OF
Pennsylvania, in connection with the
KIDNAPPING of Billy Whitla in Sharon.
Pa, In 1909. has forwarded an applica-
tion for q pardon to the state board at
Harrisburg. The petition will he given
a hearing June lG 90.
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Russian line southeast of DrohobycZ
and near the Stry after severe fight
ing. and forced the Russians to re-
treat. The attack also is proceeding
here.
On the Pruth line and in Russian Po-
land the situation Is unchanged.
In the southwestern war theater. in
the Tyrol and at some points south
east of Trent, the enemy began to
lombard our frontier works with
heavy artillery Near Caprile Ito
the northeast Of Trent), in the Cor
devole valley, two Italian companies
were annihilated by our machine
guns.
On the Carinthian frontier there has
been an unsuccessful bombardment
In the coast district the Italians
have crossed the frontier at several
points. Enemy detachments which
advanced to our positions were re-
pulsed
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GERMAN STATEMENT.

BERLIN, May %:
GERS and 1.45O Frenchmen were taken
prisoners and six machine guns were
captured since the 9th of May. These
belonged to the French army corps
operating at a vital point where at
tempts were made by the enemy to
break through our lines northeast
of Lorette ridge. Southeast Of Lo-
rette ridge the French renewed at
tacks on parts of our line last night,
but were repulsed. AT Ablain a bat
tie is raging
The enemy also attacked in the forest
Of LIE Pretre last night After pro-
longed artillery preparation and Bit
ter hand-to-hand fighting the en-
gagement ended in a severe defeat
for the French
In the Vosges mountains the enemy
succeeded in establishing himself in
small trench forming part of our
position to the southwest of Metzeral.
French attack at hs-Ackerkopf.
north of Muehlbach. easily was re-
pulsed.
Eighteen French aviators yesterday at
tackled the open town of Ludwigs-
hafen (Bavaria).
Several civilians were killed or wound
ed by bombs. The material damage
done by the raiders was slight. The
leading armored aeroplane was COM
PEELED to land at a point east of Neu-
stadt. and afterward the commander
OF the squadron of aircraft also fell
into our hands in the neighborhood
of Nancy. Our aeroplanes caused a
separate aeroplane to fall at Epinal,
and they set fire to the barracks At
Gerardmer eighteen miles south of
ST. Die).
In the eastern theater: On the Dubysa
our troops again commenced the Of
fensive. An attack conducted on
both sides of the high road between
Rossjeny and Erigola was crowned
with good results. We captured 3.12O
Russians On the remainder of this
front Russian night attacks were re-
pulsed at several places.
In the southeastern theater: To stop the
advance of the Teutonic allies troops
of the enemy tried with fresh forces
brought forward from other war the
aters to attack at several points on
the right bank of the River San.
These attempts failed. Only in the
region of Sieniawa were weak diyi-
sions forced back on the left bank of
the San. On this occasion about six
of our cannon could not be with
drawn in good time.
In the district northeast Of Peremysl
We are still progressing favorably on
both sides of the River Wysznia. In
addition to the booty reported May
25, about 1000 additional prisoners
have been taken, and about twenty
five cannon and about twenty ma
chine guns have been captured.
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GERMAN LOSSES HEAVY
IN WEST, LONDON HEARS
Shell Kills Many German Officers in
Bathing House. Says
Eyewitness"

LONDON. May es.-THe recital OF Oc-
currences at the front, written by the
British eyewitness under date OF
| May 25, and given out in London is de-
voted largely to the telling of minor in
cidents.
The account deals with comparatively
small actions in various parts of
Flanders. and the writer says the Ger
man losses lately have been very heavy
"A building in La Bassee used by the
Germans bathing establishment
was hit recently by one OF our howitZer
shells while ii was full of German Of
ficers," the eyewitness relates. Be
tween twenty and thirty of them were
killed or wounded.
Aeroplane Brought Down.
Not far from Ypres our anti aircraft
guns brought down a hostile aeroplaue.
which fell headlong on a parapet of the
German trenches within sight of the
French lines. Both the pilot and the
observer must have been Instantly kill
ed The French, noting that the fall
ing machine was exciting considerable
interest among the occupants of the
enemy's works, trained machine guns
on the spot and waited until a sufficient
number of Germans had collected.
Continuing. the eyewitness relates
how a detachment of Germans. at
tempting 10 make use of their deadly
gas at Gpres, We're themselves suffo-
Gated by this gas after French shell
had burst the cylinder containing II.
Loses 2,4Oo of 5000 Men.
Notable among the recent German
losses, The eyewitness asserts, We're
those sustained by the 18th Prussian
Infantry III the action OF May 15-1..
This organization lost o.400 out of
3.oJ0 men.
The Germans are still extracting the
utmost from the country they occupy
Mention is made of one incident in con-
nection with the recent sporadic bonn
bardment OF Lens by the allies.
six shells fell on the Lens station.
the writer says 'and the town was
fined 900 marks tS15o) for each pro
jectiIe or a total of $4,000 marks tS4.-
5Ob) part of which was distributed
among the soldiers. The ground f"r
the fine was the allegation that some 90
the, iuha bitants must have been in con
runication with the enemies of Ger
British Make Advance.
The only considerable advance by
the British forces that the eyewitness
chronicles was on the evening of May
90 when they seized points to the
northeast of the Festubert-La Quinque
road, gaining ground a quarter OF
mile deep and half a mile wide. The
German attacks to retake this terrain
broke down under very heavy loss.
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SANITARY INSPECTION
SHOWN TO Be BENEFICIAL
Public Health Service Summarizes
Work Accomplished in Depart
ment Buildings.

Completing today its monthly sanitary
inspection Of departmental buildings in
the District Of Columbia, the public
health service enumerates the benefits
Of it's activities in this direction in the
course Of the past three years. A bull
letin was issued this morning.
The work has been of marked and far
reaching benefits, declares the public
health service. Conditions have been
remedied. evils have been corrected,
standards OF cleanliness and order have
been established. The effect has been a
general betterment in the working con-
ditions of federal employees and a dis
tinct gain in health showing.
Work in Manufactures.
In the manufacturing establishments
Of the government. tho menaces of dust
have been removed. and health condi-
tions have been made as nearly per-
feet as possible. Overcrowding has
been checked and changed. Ventilation
of Offices has been provided for, some
times through structural alterations.
lighting conditions also have been
rectified.
Disorder and confusion in public
buildings has been corrected by the
Littering of desks. stacking of odds
and ends on the foors improper dispo-
sition Of clothing and other things
have all been diminished. Dirt, the
accompaniment of disorder Is no long
er the chaotic condition
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FRENCH STATEMENT.
PARIS. May %. 2:35 p.m..

PARIS, May -. 2:3S pint
The counter attacks of the enemy
against the positions taken by us
near Angres continued last night. but
were repulsed by us.
At Ablain-st. Nazaire our troops yes
terday followed up their offensive
movement with distinct success Mas
ters Of the cemetery. they took pos
session early in the night of all the
group of houses nearby. but espe-
cially of the parsonage. which had
been strongly protected by the en-
emy. Subsequently they took by as
sault the German trenches along the
road which runs from Ablain-St. Ma
zaire to Moulin Malon. to the south
east.
Here they were subjected to a violent
counter attack during the night, but
they held all the ground in their
possession and inflicted heavy losses
on the enemy. At the break of day
they moved out in an easterly direc-
tion and took possession. in the d.
rection of Souchez. of an important
German work called the Fort des
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FL|ERS SBOMBARD
TURKISH POSITIONS
Allies Carry Five Lines G:
Trenches in Bayonet
Attack.
FLEET HURLS SHELLS
BOTH NIGHT AND DAY
Constantinople Claims Capture Of
Two British Positions
tralians in Hot Battle.

LONDON. MAY 2SA dispatch from
Athens. dated May -. SAYS;
ALLIED acroplanes flew over the
straits today. subjecting the Turkish
positions to an effective bombardment.
The allies carried Ave lines of trenches
on two hills at the point OF the bayo-
net"
Another message from Athens. dated
today. says the allied forces are COZ
tinuinG their advance on the ,;allipoli
peninsula. As result of bayonet at
taos they have occupied important p"-
sitipnS. where they are nov strunClt
intrenrhed. The losses Of the Turks
have been heavy. The aeroplaue squad
ron OF the allies is rendering splendid
service.
The fleet is continuing its lombard
ment of the Turkish positions night
and day.
Turks Claim Success.
Constantinople claims fresh activity
on the part of Turkish forces in the
vicinity of kurna. Mesopotamia. where.
IL is announced. "in a night attack 10y
volunteers in boats We captured tv o
English positions which we are stun
holding.
kurna is on the right bank Of the
Tigris river at its junction with TN.
Euphrates- it is stopping point tor
river steamers going up and down and
has small trade.
Omcial announcement also was made
In Constantinople that transport ship.
escorted by the French cruiser Jules
Mfchelet, attempted n landing at Bou
droun under protection of the shipss
guns. I'VE killed one enemy officer and
sixteen men,, the announcement dc
clares, "and wounded others. We also
captured the transport"
Allies Are Optimistic.
The allies are described AZ ''hpov-
antly optimistic" concerning the opera
tions in the Dardanelles. owing TO tie
daily arrival OF reinforcements OF
troops, ships and guns. in a dispatch to
the Times from Moudros. The Turks are
said to be short of heavy ammunition.
and to be using shrapnel filled with
heavy pebbles, as well shells with
an inner casing of wood instead Of
more effective projectiles.
Men from the front report that the
Turks May u attempted 10 capture
Australasian positions at Baba Tepe.
Describing this attack. the Times cor
respondent says:
Attack for Twelve Hours.
The first onset began at am. and
for twelve hours the enemy attacked
in serried columns of desperate as
saults, vet at 2 pm. the Australasians
were able to signal that they were
holding easily and at o'clock they
counter attacked, driving the enemy
back with the bayonet and pursuing
him in the open to his intrenchments
with great slaughter. The Turks lost
1000 killed and 5000 wounded. The
Australasian casualties. though heavy.
were light in comparison.
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Welfare Main Consideration.

The comfort and welfare of govern
ment employees have been a prime con-
sideration. Electric fans have been
widely introduced: locker accommoda-
tions have been increased; rest periods
have been instituted. and Temperature
and humidity regulated by the activi-
ties of the public health service The
common drinking glass has disap-
peared. and the common towel is fast
losing out.
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cats were domesticated in Egypt as
early as 1900 3. c
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D'Annunzio on Warship.

The poet Gabrielle DAnnunzio has re-
-eived permission 10 serve as a volun-
leer on warship
Both the minister Of war and Cen
Cadorna. chief of stan have disap-
proved Of the organization of a sepa-
rate body of volunteers, and Peppino
tiaribaldi and his volunteers will take
service with the brigade known as the
Hunters of the Alps" which was
founded in 1859 and was commanded
as an Independent corps during the war
Of Sardinia and France against Aus
tria. by Giuseppe Garibaldi. the Italian
patriot.
virtually all those who have fought
In the Argonne will Join this body, and
their former military positions as far
as possible. will be recognized, Peppino
Garibaldi becoming q colonel of the
regular army.
No Moratorium Necessary.
The declaration OF war by Italy has
so slightly dislocated business affairs
that IL has been decided that no mora
torium Is necessary. While the govern
inent gave permission TO banks and
institutions for the deposit of money
e suspend operations for hve days. all
Ahsse places have remained open.
The chamber of commerce suggests
however, that in order to assist persons
who are dependent on tourists for busi-
Ass. such as hotelkeepers and shop
Keepers of various kinds. magistrates
he permitted to order them to defer
xa!neGts until the war is over.
Evening star., 1915-09-12

a plan. 1t would be amusing to see that
man. No? 1 was Joking. Au revoir.
I'll see you later"
My eye followed him idly. So did a
frock-coated party in derby hat and
polished brogans. type of the plain
clothes man of the prefecture, at fifty
let's talk in public Only last week
my neighbor Durand, respectable cork
wood broker. got himself rebuked in
the movement against deleterious news.
The idea is to follow up a statement to
it's source-and see who you get.
Like this:
They're holding up the mails to
Switzerland again. Don't you know
why? l have it from direct sources
that we are preparing a new drive in
the north to pierce or lose 10000
talk of new complications. Could we
spare five army corps to guard the
Pyrenees?"
A civilian doctor told the wife of a
captain, who passed it to her janitress,
who told an actress, whence it spread
one evening to the foyer of the Thea
ter Francais.
Like this:
They're opening the mails to Swift
zerland. Don't you know why? It's to
suppress the failure in the north,
where we have lost 100000 men, as at
Clarency I tremble. Spain has seized
the passes of the Pyrenees, and we
have sent five army corps against them.
How can we spare them? There will
be a revolution"
Tracing it backward, the civilian doc
tor had it from a blind hero, by way
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Special Correspondence of The Star.


PARIS, September l, 1915.
q KNOW a Frenchman who nearly
III lost his life in the battle of the
Marne-he did lose his automobile.
q OF late he has been saving France
at Fontainebleau-as they say, in am
bush. He knows why the French have
not pierced" in the north.
Not so foolish" he says. When We
make drive, it's to encourage the
civilians Our real policy is to let the
Germans beat themselves. They're fall
ing dead on three fronts to our one
and no dead German comes back. Also,
they're in hurry-cant wait-for
financial reasons. They'll come pound
ing on US in the north again, in close
formations, and get the surprise of
their lives, as at Ypres and Dixmude.
i have it from a personal friend of
Joffre''
He knows all about the new Creusot
artillery.
Heavy" he says. very heavy. I'm
proved from the enemy. a 410 and a
500, I tell you only that! And not
enough tractors to drag them north!
Ny Cousins train of auto-vans has
been transformed to tractors, SO l
ought to know. Shells are being made
in 23S French factories. AT Bourges
it's 10000 per day. At Lyon, st.
Charmond and st. Etienne they're fin
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been noted as the center Of business and
fashion of the Brazilian capital. About
500 buildings were demolished to make it
and the whole was completed within the
and today the Avenida Central is one
of the most magnificent streets of the
world. 1t has cost millions, but the
money has been well spent and it will
be long before its artistic beauty will
be surpassed. 1t is an extension of the
Avenida Beira Mar, which runs for four
miles along the shore, being lined with
statues. fountains and fast-growing
palm trees The two streets are brill
liantly illuminated all night long, the
electric lights being SO powerful that
their glow can be seen forty-f1ve miles
out at sea.
The Avenida Central. or as it is now
called the Avenida Rio Branco. COM
pares favorably with the Champs
Elysees and the boulevards. 1t is lined
with magnificent palaces from one end
to the other, beginning with the great
Palace of Peace, named after President
Monroe. The palaces have an even
sky line. They are of only four or
five stories, but their decoration is
splendid and the architecture is of the
most modern type. Beyond the Peace
Palace is the National Library, a mag
nificent structure Of stone. Next is
the brownstone School of Fine Arts,
and across the way the Municipal
Theater. made Of gray marble We
have no amusement building in the
United States to compare with that
theater.
Farther down the street are the
newspaper buildings, including those
of the Journal do Commerce., o Paiz
and the Journal do Brasil. There are
also the Academy of Fine Arts, the
Evening star., 1915-09-12

the Ouvidor is too narrow to contain
it ALL and II has overfowed into the
Avenida Central, which is thronged
with people from noon until midnight.
The crowd of these two streets is
typical of fashionable Brazil Both
men and women are well dressed. Near
ly every man carries a cane. and many
of the women wear the short skirts
and the high -heeled shoes of different
colored feathers so common today. The
faces of most of the people are sallow.
lattoes Among the best dressed on the
Avenida Central are girls whose COM
pleXions are of a bright coffee-color.
and whose black hair waves even more
than the mosaic flag under their feet.
Others have complexion which makes
one think of old ivory. They have
liquid dark eyes, and their features
remind you of the beauties of Lisbon
The men are almost invariably thin
They look lean and nervous. Many
of the women are fat. the sedentary life
Of the rich adding to the avordupois OF
the maidens.
Both the ouvidor and the Avenida
Central have beautiful stores. which
form the walls for the moving pictures
/ have described. The window displays
are like those of Paris, the most OF
the stock being shown behind the plate
glass. A great deal of taste is eN-
ercised in creating artistic effects. and
all sorts of ways are used to entice
one to enter. The department stores
have player-pianos. well as shows
of one kind other. The jewelry
shops show quantities of diamonds and
the other precious and semi-precious
stones, for which Brazil is so noted.
There are large shops selling canes
and milliners and dressmakers from
Paris. The price-marks are puzzline.
The currency is in reis. of which 1t
takes about 5000 to equal one of our
dollars. When you first look at the
marks you seem to be in a city of mill
lionaires. Here silk shirts are labeled:
"3 for 30S00O." The price seems enor-
nous; you think 1t $4,000 shirt. But
when you understand that it takes
5000 reis to equal one dollar. the price
comes down to SO. or a little more
than SO per shirt. The jewelry marks
are even more astounding. The fig
ures on diamond rings and bracelets
run from 500SO00 to l.000S000; and il
is only when you cut off three of the
ciphers, and divide what is left by 81.
that you get the actual values in
American dollars.
FRANK G. CARPENTER
Evening star., 1915-09-12
THE SUGARLOAF,

terror of tourists, and during my stay
I fed to Petropolis. high up in the
mountains behind, and came to the city
in the daytime only.
Then Rio was dirty. Its public
buildings were shabby. 1t looked as
though it had been born in the middle
ages and gone to seed. Today Rio
tropics, and its death rate compares
favorably with those of most of the
great cities of the world. 1t is kept
clean as pin, and it's sanitary
regulations are unsurpassed.
The whole city has been practically
remodeIed and a great part of it torn
down and rebuilt. When I was here
1t has now more than a million and it
stands next to Buenos Aires among
the capitals of the South American con-
tinent. 1t is an up-to-date city. 1t
has electric lines that will compare
favorably with any on the hemisphere,
and thousands of motor cars fly
through it's principal streets. The
Branco and Beira Mar is equal to that
of any city of Europe, and / know of
no place that has streets and drives
which are equally beautiful
x X
The Avenida Beira Mar is wide
boulevard following the shore of the
harbor for nearly four miles. 1t has
only one interruption, and this is
caused by the Widows mount, behind
which it turns inland for some 900
yards. The avenue joins other avenues
following the harbor, and the whole
affords double motor track which