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the western theater of war, comments
on the effect produced on the opera
tions by the weather, which, as at a
big sporting event, is capable of inter
fering seriously with the performance.
Before the war, says Maj. Moraht. no
one would have believed it possible
that even a peace maneuver. to say
nothing of actual warfare, would be
called off because it was too wet, too
cold or too windy, but in this modern
shovel warfare the German operations
ed. The weather conditions are a
the Anglo-Belgian offensive also.
On the rest Of the western front, con-
tinues the correspondent, it has been
shown that the so-caIled German defensive
than is the offensive of Gen. Joffre, the
French commander-in-chief. In the Ar
gonne region heavy French losses are the
only result of repeated attempts to force
back the Germans.
Maj. Moraht compares the German posi-
ton at St Mihiel to an arrow which the
allies are vainly endeavoring to extricate
pause in the German forward movement
at st. Mihiel as due to a higher strategic
reason. there being little use in pushing
the offensive until the full rewards for
having obtained the present position are
reaped.
British Reported in Lille.
LONDON, January ia dispatch to
the Daily Express from Boulogne asserts
that confirmation has been obtained OF
the rumors that the Germans have evacu-
ated Lille, and that the city is now y1r-
tually in the possession of the British.
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LONDON THINKS GERMAN AIRMEN
SET OUT FOR RAID ON ENGLAND

LONDON, January 1.-The Times as
serts that sixteen German aeroplanes
were seen over the English channel
Sunday morning. Evidently they con-
templated a raid on England. accord
ing to the Times, but apparently the
pilots found the conditions too bad to
continue the journey, for they turned
their machines and steered in the di-
rection of Dunkirk.
A Zeppelin airship, accompanied by
three German monoplanes. passed over
Furnes, Dunkirk and Calais Saturday
night, according to the Daily Chroni-
cle's French frontier correspondent. II
was believed, the correspondent adds
that the aircraft were headed for
Dover. They were flying very high
and did not attack the towns they flew
over.
No hostile aircraft were sighted at
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PARIS, January 1.-THE bomoard-
ment. January Z, by the French heavy
artillery of the railroad station at AIT
kirch. Upper Alsace, was more than
simnle military manifestation, says the
M,tin The precise object OF the at
tack was to prevent the passage oi
important reinforcements' whicn were
destined to cooperate IN the herman
defense of Steinbach.
Aided by aviators the French artll-
1erv demolished the railway line OF the
INNER III river, rendering 1t useless to
the Germans for more than five kilo-
meters (three miles), continues the pa
ner Above Hirzbach two German
trains, bringing reserve troops Ell
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KAISER HAS 5000, 900 MORE MEN
FIT FOR SERVICE IN THE ARMY

BERLIN, January IL, by wireless
Among the items given out by the Of
ficial press bureau are the following:
AN examination shows that of the
unframed landsturm troops in the 9Th
Army Corps districts of Hamburg and
Holstein there are 100000 men fit for
service. AS Germany has twenty-four
army corps districts. the landsturm
would yield (taking these figures as
basis) about 100000 more men f1et for
field service.
''The results of the fighting during
the first week of the year are consid-
cred by the newspapers as fairly salts
factory. The Germans took about
$500 prisoners and some twenty-five
machine guns.
THE Morgen Post prints details OF a
recent British attack on Tanga, Ger
man East Africa, which apparently
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any point along the English coast
Sunday, although a vigilant aeroplane
and automobile patrol was maintained
as a result Of the rumors that the Ger
mans were believed to be headed for
England.
PARIS, January ia dispatch to
the Havas Agency from Dunkirk says
that a dozen German aeroplanes bonn
barded Dunkirk and environs Sunday.
Thirty bombs were thrown by the air
men, but owing to the precautions
that had been taken there were few
victims. The material damage was un-
important.
A German aeroplane flying over
Amiens has been brought to the ground
by a French machine.
The French airman went a1oft the
moment the German was seen ap-
preaching. He opened fire on his an
tagonist, with the result that the Ger
man machine fell within the French
lines. One of the German pilots was
killed.
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JEWISH CoLoN1sTs SUFFER.
Palestine Lacks Food for People.
u. S. Relief Saves Many.

LONDON. January II. 3:19 a-m.-Ths
Jewish Chronicles Jaffa, Palestine, cor
responded. who has just been expelled
from the country, wires his paper from
Alexandria that the Jewish colonists
in Palestine are in deplorable circum-
stances.
"There would have been high
death roll" the correspondent adds,
except for the invaluable work of the
American relief fund. The Turkish
army in southern Palestine numbers
1000 men. It is impossible to feed
these troops from the countryside, as
the natives have no food except bread
and oil.''
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FRENCH DEMOLISH RAILWAY LINE
Baking GERMAN REINFORCEMENT

route from the Swiss frontier toward
Muelhausen, broke down. Later the
trains were subjected to 4 heavy ar
tillery fire and began to burn and were
destroyed. The Germans, meantime
began a retreating movement toward
the hills dominating Hirzbach.
The engagement hereabout. says the
Matin, is regarded as the most i'm .Jor-
tant of the new campaign in the
Vosges. The French have attained a
strategical railroad commanding the
annexed country. They have already
cut this line above Altkirch. The CEN
trail railroad from the Swiss frontier to
Strassburg is the secret of the German
resistance in Alsace. The day is near,
says the Matin. when the adversary.
deprived of the line Of the valley of
the Ill. must continue the war on foot
to defend the left bank of the Rhine.
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emanated from the German colonial
Office. The first landing Of 5000 Brit
ish and Hindus was repulsed by the
Germans, who numbered about 1000
with 500 killed or wounded. The Brit
ish attacked again the next day with
reinforcements, but again were de-
feated with loss of 1900. They then
re-embarked and sailed for Mombasa.
Money for the payment of the. in
terest on the per cent Japanese loan
of 1905 has arrived in Berlin. Negotia-
tions are pending for the payment OF
the interest of the Az per cent
Japanese loan of 1905.
ION the Berlin bourse call money is
quoted at per cent. while the private
rate of discount is Az per cent.
The Reichsbank's gold reserve Is
1880, 900 marks s5.375 5.000), which is
100000 marks (s4,50o,oo0) more than
last week.
Among the German organized work
men from August % to the end of No
vember only 8 per cent were unem-
ployed."
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BREAD RIOT IN BELGIUM.
Hungry Populace Smashes Window.
in Town Hall at Marcinelle.

AMSTERDAM. via London. January
IL, 2:11 ANA dispatch to the Tele-
graaf from Brussels says:
"A bread riot has occurred at Marci-
nellie, province of Hainaut. Belgium. A
crowd collected around the town hall
and smashed its windows. The police
restored order with some difficulty, and
later bread was supplied to the popu-
lace.
THE German army is suffering con-
siderably from typhus and pneumonia"
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both men escaped from Mexico wher
their lives were in danger.
Yturbide Is Safe Here,

Gen. Yturbide was given a passport
at Mexico City several weeks ago, and
left Immediately. The train on which
he Travelled was waylaid in the noun
tains, and only by jumping from his
car and fleeing into the forest did he
escape. After weeks spent among the
mountains as a fugitive. he succeeded
in crossing the Mexican border and
reaching Ell Paso.
The Carranza agency here last night
made public the following dispatch, re-
ceived from San Antonio. Tex
No official news. There is strict CEN
sorship at Monterey. Our consul at
Laredo has heard that our forces are
commanded by Gems villareal, Herrera
and Santos. They have established their
garrison base at Villa Garcia, thirty kilo-
meters from Monterey Their advance
column is in contact with the Villistas.
Battle evidently still is in progress"
Think Villa Attacked Monterey.
LAREDO, Tex, January 11-An at
tack by Villa troops upon Monterey Is
believed to have begun about noon to-
day. At IL o'clock the operators at
Monterey deserted the telegraph office
there. Since the defeat of the consti-
tutionalists, numbering $1,000, under
Gen. Villareal, before Saltillo early
yesterday, Villa troops have been re-
ported making rapid advance toward
Monterey.
The constitutionalist defeat was said
to have been the result of misunder-
standing of orders. According to the
reports. the consttutionalist forces were
closing in on Saltillo and had obtained
positions of vantage when the cry was
raised that Villas troops had scattered
themselves throughout the attacking
side. The constitutionalists became de-
moralized, and a hasty retreat fol-
lowed. 1t was further reported that
$50 constitutionalists joined Villa $
forces.
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CLOSES BELGIAN FUND
The Hatcher, g. W. U. Student Pub
lication. Has Raised S23O az

Having raised $23o.65. the Hatchet.
weekly student publication of the
George Washington University. has
closed its Belgian relief fund. The
money will be turned over by Herbert
P. Ramsey, the treasurer, to the Bel
gian minister to the Uuited States.
Proceeds from a recent benefit con.
cert given by the University Orchestra
netted $11. Prof. George N Hennine,
head of the department of romance
languages, who, together with his sis
ter, has taken a most active part in
the money-raising campaign, has con-
tributed an additional dollar.
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reply shall be addressed to your OK
cellercy. dealing in detail with the is
sues raised and the points to which the
United States government have drawn
attention. This consideration and the
preparation of the reply will neces-
fore desire to send without further de-
lay some preliminary observations,
which will. I trust. help to clear the
ground and remove some misconcep-
tions that seem to exist.
Let me say at once that we entirely
recognize the most friendly spirit re-
ferred to by your excellency, and that
we desire to reply In the same spirit
and in the belief that, as your excei-
lency states. frankness will best serve
the continuance of cordial relations De-
tween the two countries.
His majestys government cordially
concur in the principle enunciated by
the government OF the United states
that a belligerent, in dealing with trace
between neutrals, should not interfere
protect the belligerent's national saie-
ty, and then only to the extent to winch
this is necessary. We shall endeavoI
to keep our action within the limits oi
this principle on the understanding tha'
it admits our right to interfere Wnen
such interference is not with bona noe
trade between the United States and
another neutral country. but with TRACE
in contraband destined for the enemy's
country. and we are ready, whenever
our action may unintentionally exceed
this principle, to make redress.
Compares New York Exports.
I'VE think that much misconceptton
exists as to the extent to which we
have. in practice, interfered with trade
Your excel1ency's note seems to hold his
majesty's government responsible Tor
the present condition of trade with
neutral countries, and it is stated that
through the action OF his majesty's e
government, the products OF the great
industries of the United States have
been denied long established markets
in European countries, which, though
neutral, are contiguous to the seat OF
war. Such a result is far from being
the intention OF his majesty's govern
ment, and they would exceedingly re-
gret that it should be due to their
action. 1 have been unable to obtain
complete or conclusive figures showing
what the state Of trade with these neu,
trail countries has been recently. and
can therefore only ask that some fur
ther consideration should be given to
the question whether United States
trade with these neutral countries has
been so seriously affected. The only
figures as to the total volume of trade
that / have seen are those for the ex-
ports from New York, for the month OF
November, 1914, and they are as fol-
lows, compared with the month Of No
vember, 1913:
Exports from New York for Novem-
Der. 1913 (and) November. 1914, re-
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Kansas Has a Native Governor.

TOPEKA. Kan, January 11.-Arthur
Capper Of Topeka, the first native Kansan
to be chosen chief executive of the state,
and the first to be chosen by the suffrage
of both the men and the women Of the
state, was inaugurated as the twentieth
Governor of Kansas here today. In his
address Gov. Capper urged q vigorous
championship Of national prohibition and
woman suffrage.
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Nuncio Cautions Cardinal Mercier

AMSTERDAM. via London, January
II. $50 a.m--The Telegraaf says it
learns that the papal nuncio to Bel
gium was written to Cardinal Mercier.
whose recent pastoral letter to Belgian
Catholics created much discussion and
led to reports that the cardinal had
been detained by the Germans. sugeest-
ing that hereafter he write nothinp
which might offend the Germans.
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Cruiser Off Azores May Be japanese.

NEW YORK, January ia cruiser,
which Capt. Williamson Of the steamship
Curaca believes to be Japanese, was
sighted off the Azores during the Curaca's
vovaee here from Havre, which ended to-
day. The man-of-war did not give her
name. This is the first report Of the
nossible presence Of a japanese cruiser In
the north Atlantic since the beginning of
the war.
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Decorate Bust of Gen. Leman.

PARIS. January 11.7-A bust of Gen.
Leman, the defender Of Liege, who Is
now a prisoner of the Germans, was
crowned with a wreath of laurel In
the presence of representatives of the
French and Belgian governments and
5000 spectators In the Trocadero yes
terday. During the ceremony Jean
Richepin, the dramatist, declaimed
The Marseillaise.'
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Envoy Guest Of Ambassador Guthrie

TOXIC, January II. 4 pm.-George
w. Guthrie. the American ambassador.
gave farewell luncheon today to Ad-
miral Baron Shigoto Dewa, special en-
voy of Japan to the Panama-Pacific ex-
position. who has arranged to sail for
San Francisco on the steamer Chiyo
Maru on January Is. From San Fran
cisco Admiral Dewa will go to Chi
cago. New York and Washington. He
IL to be accompanied by Commanders
SetZo kobayashi and Yohitake Uyeda.
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sion now in France. declared at BAN
quet Saturday night that Roumania
was now on the eve of grave develop
nents and that II was sure to win
because we are sure Of the Justice of
our cause"
He said he was sure that Roumania's 8
entry into the war would result In It's
end. He added that he did not speak
oficially, but that he voiced the senti-
ment Of his people generally.
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Carries Banner Cotton. Shipment.

MOBILE. Ala, January 11.-British
steamer Belgian. carrying cargo Of Il. 1000
bales Of cotton, sailed early today for
Liverpool, England. with the largest ship
ment Of its kind from this port since the
European war began.
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State Department Here Hears
That All Is Quiet in
Southern Capital.
BATTLElN PROGRESS
NEAR MONTEREY TODAY
v;llistas Believed to Have Attacked
Troops Of Carranza There-Gen.
Yturbide Is Safe.

The state Department today received
a dispatch from Mexico City, dated yes
terday, saying the city was quiet, and
the new chairman of the convention
was Gen. ROGUE Gonzales CARA.
George C. Carothers informed the de-
partment from Ell Paso that he at
tended the conference there between
Gen. Scott and Gen. Villa, that an
amicable solution of the Naco situation
was reached, and that no further trou-
BILE should be anticipated over this
affair.
From Monterey it was reported that
fighting was in progress about twenty
five miles away, that wounded soldiers
had been brought there and that more
were arriving. Trains between Mon
terey and Laredo were running at the
time the dispatch was sent Saturday,
but in other directions from Monterey
the service was irregular.
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Gives Federation Standing.

Speaking the mass meeting conducted
ny the federation Saturday night, Ed
ward F. Colladay. president of the as.
sociation, today said:
ABOVE everything else the meeting
gave the federation a status that must
De recognized. BY the frank state
rnents OF the Commissioners as to the
Importance which they attach to this
organization the federation NAV be now
looked unon as a semi official organiza-
tion for developing local public opin-
ION. The federation does not propose
to go to the Commissioners or to Con-
Sress with unreasonable requests but
It VIII give itself over TO the task of
ascertalninS what Il majority of the
citizens and property owners of WASH
in2ton think about various matters af-
fecting their welfare and the rrowtt
and Development of the city and OF
promoting those reforms which baye
the undenied sympathy and support OF
the public" %
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Carranza Decree a Mystery.

The department has telegraphed to
Consul Canada at Vera Cruz for the
full text of a decree issued several
days ago by Gen. Carranza, as to the
Interpretation of which there is some
uncertainty here. The decree, accord
ing to the departments information,
"nullified all illegal sales of waters,
forests and lands by local authorities
and governors and provided also for
notification of all sales of lands by
department or federal authorities since
December /, 1876, as well as for eX-
tension to same by federal or state
authorities"
Gen. e. N Yturbide, former COM
mander of the Mexican federal forces,
who has been reported missing In Mex
leo for three weeks, arrived in this city
from Ell Paso, Tex, yesterday with Gen.
William Snyman, veteran commander
of the Boer war 1t is understood that
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BRITISH NOTEFA|LS
TO SATISFY WILSON

Continued from First Pase.)
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SEEKS commission
TO ALLOT EXPENSE
Senator GaIIinger Provides for
Inquiry Into District-U. S.
Financial Plan.
OFFERS AMENDMENT
TO PENDING MEASURE

The appointment of a commission
to investigate the proper proportion OF
the expenses of the District of Colum-
bia which shall be borne by the federal
government and the District Is provfd-
ed for in an amendment to the District
appropriation bill offered in the Senate
today by Senator Gallinger of New
Hampshire.
The amendment is as follows:
THAT a joint select committee shall be
appointed consisting of three senators, to
be named by the presiding officer of the
Senate, and three members of the House,
to be named by the Speaker of the House.
whose duty it shall be to prepare and sub
NIT to Congress statement Of the proper
proportion of the expenses of the gov
ernment of the District Of Columbia or
any branch thereof, including interest on
the funded debt, which shall be born by
the District and by the United States, re-
spectively, together with the reasons upon
which their conclusions may be based. and
in the discharge of the duty hereby i'm
posed. the said committee Is authorized
to employ such assistance as it deems ad-
visable, at an expense not to exceed
$4,000, and the said sum or SO much
thereof as may be necessary be and the
same is hereby appropriated for that pur-
pose"
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How Jurisdictions Conflict.

FOLLOWING are some OF the samples OF
conflicting jurisdictions:
Petworth. Chevy Chase and most of
Cleveland Park are entirely within the
lines of the Connecticut Avenue Asso-
/. citation.
Cathedral Heights infringes on Cleve-
land Park and Georgetown.
Piney Branch and Brightwood Park
cover large amount Of territory that is
claimed by both.
Columbia Heights and Park View also
overlap
The limits Of the North Washington
Association conflict with those of North
Capitol and lexington, central and mid
city.
Mai. kutz' map shows that there is
big section, Of which Dupont Circle is the
center, that Is not represented by any as
sociation.
District officials are Of the impression
that the Federation Of Citizens Asso-
cations is about the only organization
that could undertake to straighten out
the tangle of boundaries established
by the individual associations, and they
are much In hope that early effort will
be made to adjust the situation.
Suggests Prohibition Vote.
Maj. Kutz also is author of the sug-
gestion that the federation undertake
to sound out local public opinion on
the prohibltion question. In address,
Ing the federation Saturday night he
pointed out that there is now pending
prohibition bill and that this is a mat
ter upon which he would like to know
the views of the citizens Of the capital
Deiore preparing report on the bill
Tor transmission to Congress
1t is expected that the federation will
ask the individual associations for their
opinion as to the desirability of petit
uonlng Congress for referendum
vote on the liquor question.
1t already Is determined that the fed
Grafton will endeavor to obtain the
consensus or opinion of Washingto-
mans as to the wisdom of asking Con-
gress Tor joint commission to study
the nscal relations existing between
the 1ederai and local governments with
view OF ascertaining whether or NOT
some other plan of federal contribution
snould be adopted. This proposal is
now before the law and finance COM
mittee OF the federation, and will he
referred to the indiyidual sssoctations
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FEDERATION TO ACT
AS CLEARING HOUSE
PREPARES to Make Known and
Urge Wants of Citizens
Associations.
THREE PROBLEMS RESULT
OF SATURDAYS MEETING
Fixing of Boundaries Over Which
Each Has Jurisdiction Considered
Most Important Now.

DESIGNATED by the District Commits
sioners as the logical organization for
sounding out local public opinion on
all matters affecting the interests of
the District, the Federation Of Citizens
Associations this week will prepare to
assume the functions of real clearing
house for the activities of the various
citizens associations of Washington.
Three big problems confront the
federation as a result of suggestions
made by the District Commissioners at
the mass meeting held under its aus
pices in the Chamber of Commerce
Saturday night. These are:
First, ascertaining the views of Dis
trict citizens as to the desirab1llty OF
Congress naming joint commission
to consider the fiscal relations existing
between the United States and the Dis
trict.
Second, the conducting of referen-
dunn vote on the question OF whether
or not there should be prohibition OF
the liquor traffic in the District.
Third, readjustment OF the boundaries
Of the various citizens associations, so
as to abolish conflicting jurisdictions.
New Boundaries Needed.
In many respects the necessity of
establishing new boundaries for the
citizens associations is regarded by
the Commissioners and especially En-
gineer Commissioner Kutz, who made
the suggestion. as the most important
work that the federation can take up
at this time. At present the territorial
limits of these bodies overlap to a
great extent. Maj. Kutz pointed out
that the association would be in a posi-
tion to do much more effective work
if they looked after the interests Of
individual sections and did not infringe
on one another's jurisdictions.
Shortly after becoming Engineer
Commissioner Maj. Kutz wrote to the
form him of the territories over which
their activities extend. Thirty-eight
organizations responded. The terri
tortal limits outlined were checked off
in colored lines on a map in Maj
Kutz' Office. The map. when completed,
resembled a patchwork quilt" as the
major put it.
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Maj. Moraht. military correspondent
of the Berliner Tageblatt, in review
Of the situation during the last week in
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real ground for suspecting the pres
ence of contraband the vessels should
be brought into port for examination;
in no other way can the right OF search
be exercised, and but for this practice
it would have to be completely aban-
doned