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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-03
MEXICAN BANDITS
KIDNAP AND KILL
TWO AMERICANS
Bodies, Riddled with Bull
lets, Found in the Bed
of a Dry Lake.
u. s. TROOPS FIGHT
BATTLE WITH BAND
One Outlaw Killed by Soldiers
Seeking Men Who Burned
Railroad Bridge.

Brownsville, Tex, Sept. 2.-The
bullet-riddled bodies Of two Americans
who were kidnapped early to-day by
Mexican bandits about twelve miles
north Of here, were found later in the
bed of dry lake.
The victims Of the bandits were Earl
Donaldson, a farmer, who came here
from Fayette, Mo-, two weeks ago, and
an engineer named Smith. engaged in
concrete construction work on an irri-
CATION canal The bodies were brought
to Brownsville tonight.
The band to which was ascribed the
burning of railroad trestle north Of
here last nigh was held responsible
to-day for the kidnapping Of the Amer
leans and the burning of a pumping
station. A contractor named Dodson
managed to escape when the American
troopers appeared and fred on the
Mexcans.
One Mexican was killed to-day in a
running battle between sixteen bandits
and a platoon of United States in
fantry, eleven miles north Of here. No
Americans were injured.
Cavalry and infantry had spread out
from Fort Brown in an effort to sur
round the Mexicans, who set fire to a
railroad trestle fourteen miles north
of here early this morning.
A party of Americans travelling
from Brown syille To San Benito in an
automobile, who passed the trestle a
short time before it was set on fire,
reported that they had been fired on
by band of between twenty-five and
thirty Mexicans.
The troopers found a quantity Of
dynamite in suitcase, several dirks,
one rife and two reyolvers at the
trestle, indicating that the Mexicans
intended to blow up the bridge but
were frightened away.
Aviation Lieutenant R. c. Morrow
was ordered to ascend in an aeroplane
to try to locate the band.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-03
LINERS PARADE
UP BAY, BRINGING
ARABIC RESCUED
st. Paul and AdriatiC Dock
with As Saved from
White Star Liner.

More like the measured parade Of an
incoming w1r feet than the casual en-
try of few; peaceful merchantmen, the
American liner St. Paul, the Adriatic,
of the White Star Line, both from
Liverpool and the Scandinavian steam
ship Oscar II, from Copenhagen, came
up the bay yesterday tandemwise and
locked almost simultaneously.
The neutral St. Paul had the lead;
behind her came the belligerent Adri-
attic, with the neutral Oscar II in her
wake Abeam the latter vessel steamed
the little Caracas, of the Red "D" Line,
from Venezuela, displaying an Ameri-
can flag as big as her jackstaf. The
course lay between a string of freight
ers in ballast awaiting dockage. The
mail had been taken off Wednesday
night, so the procession was rapid and
uninterrupted.
On the St. Paul were thirty-fve per-
sons who had escaped death on the
Arabic and ten equally fortunate were
on the Adriatic Both vessels were in
sight of each other for four days, the
White Star boat having the lead, but
Saturday. when she went around in a
circle for an hour looking for a trim
mer who had jumped overheard, the
ST. Paul overhaued her and kept ahead
until reaching port on Wednesday
night.
The American Line vessel, which
left Liverpool at 8 p. m. August 20,
came through without incident, but the
Adriatic had misfortunes befal two
members of her crew.
Crazed, Jumps into Sea.
Sunday evening George Thompson,
stoker, died from pneumonia and was
buried at a. m. Monday. While his
body was being consigned to the sea
David Wilson, a trimmer, was under
going an operation for hernia. DR.. D..
c. Fleming, the ships surgeon, found
him in a serious condition and called
DR.. A. L. Lockwood, of Ontario, pas
senger, in consultation. DR.. Lockwood,
who had just completed a years ser
vice in the British General Hospital
operating upon wounded soldiers,
thought the task light one. Wilson
was operated upon at the head of the
gangway, and was in excellent condi-
ton when the vessel docked.
George Harrop, the trimmer who
jumped into the sea Saturday, crazed
by the heat of the stoke hole, was un-
able TO keep afoat until the Adriatic
could be brought about to rescue him.
The White Star Line announced last
night that it had received cables from
Liverpool that the following survivors
of the Arabic are on the LaDland, due
at New York on September 8: John
Stewart, Alexander n. Morton, Mr.. and
Mrs James Calmon and Domenico
Moresi.
On the American liner New York,
due here the same day. are the Rev.
Or. G. A. McAllister, Gabriel Kantor,
Reginald A. Burns, Mrs. J. Offender,
Master ". n. Gillender and Owen Kill
duff.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-03
GERMANS USE 100000
SHELLS IN J DAYS
Intense Fire Directed on French
at LingekOpf, Which the
Allies Win.

Paris, Sept. 2.-The French official
eyewitness, in a statement made pub
lie tonight, deals with his observations
of the fighting by the French troops
against the Germans in the Vosges.
"The operations in the valleys of the
Fecht and Weiss were pursued in or
der that we might attack Lingekopf and
Schratzmannele," says the eyewitness.
"The first attack took place after an
intense artillery bombardment on July
20. By an impetuous assault our troops
broke through the barbed wire de-
fences, went over the trenches and ar
rived at the SUBMITS Of Lingekopf and
Barrenkopf. On July % another assault
by US gained more ground. In the fight
ing the Germans lost heavily. On July
81 a violent combat over the whole line
enabled us 20 make further progress.
We annihilated one company Of Ger
mans.
an the fighting around Lingekopf one
of our companies reached the barbed
wire entanglements. II immediately
came under violent fire and was sum
moned 10 surrender. Il held out, how
ever, for thirty-six hours, which per-
mitted units on its TANKS 20 advance
and make the position secure.
From July 29 to August % there
were continual attacks and counter at
tacks, which were accompanied by in
tense cannonading. Forty thousand
German shells were spent on our lines
during August 1 and alone.
THE enemys efforts. however, were
unavailing, and on August II our prog
ress became decided. our troops soon
held the SUBMITS Of Lingekopf and
Schratzmannele, from where our chas-
seurs now dominate the valley, the
Munster plain and Alsace from Turk
hatr, 70 Colnnarv
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-03
SAYS BRITISH EXPOSE
C0NCEALS THE FACTS
Wolff Agency Asserts Germany
Modified Her Demands.

Berlin. Sept. 1.-The Wolff Bureau
gave out to-day d summary of the Brit
ish Foreign Office statement on the I'M
successful Anglo German negotiations
in 1912 for Improvement. The bu-
reau says:
I'VE are informed from an authori-
tatiye source that the final criticism of
the communique of the British govern
ment cannot be made until the text of
the communique is available. How
ever, the foreb ing extract shows that
II is an attempt to conceal the fact
that the German government finally
modified its original demand for abso-
lutte neutrality to demand for British
neutrality in case war should be forced
on Germany"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-03

is how I happened to get into one so
promptly.
a could not see the torpedo itself,
but could see the wake of bubbles it
left. The torpedo, you know, is always
we'll ahead Of the bubbles. didn't
think it was going TO hit US. The ex-
plosion made no great sound, but 1t
had terrific force. 1t seemed to hit
the ship clear of the water.
"a think | was stunned by the concus-
sion, for | remember sort of coming to
and hearing a mans voice saying Is
this life preserver on right? | was
got a preserver and put ii on and
then worked off my shoes. The deck
was then awash, so | just swan over
the rail ! wanted to get away from
the ship, but the waves seemed to
throw me back. Soon | found it easier
to pull my way through the wreckage
than to swim.
81 saw a raft about a hundred yards
away and a ma on il. He was a fire.
man. lie held baby in his arms and
was trying to stick aboard. When |
got there / heard a woman calling. 1t
was Mrs. Hill. It was her infant the
man held, and she wanted to get TO IL.
"'Help me aboard she cried 70 the
stoker. I'm afraid Pm going to faint
Gust then a boat came out from the
Arabic, which was now almost perpen-
dicular and half under, and a sailor
jumped from it to the raft. Before he
got there, however, that lone stoker,
unable to haul Mrs. Hill aboard, had
dashed her to the beckett. | tried to
help the woman, but l was so numb /
could not move my arms. The second
man TO reach the raft later got her
aboard.
Before she was hauled up, though,
the two seamen wanted to haul aboard
a stout man, whom | recognized later as
Captain Finch. His leg was badly hurt
and he could not climb up himself but
he would have no assistance until he
saw Mrs. Hill was taken care Of Later
we hauled up two stewardesses, and all
of us were taken aboard the trawler
Magnolia, where they gave US warm
US hot rum. We were we'll treated
aboard that trawler, but we got scant
consideration at the hands Of the
White Star agents at Queenstown
In the steerage Of the Adriatic came
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Salt, young
Lancashire woman from Blackford,
with her four children-Mary Alice,
fifteen Frank eleven; Mona, nine, and
Florence, six, all of whom were aboard
the Arabic when she was torpedoed.
She said she and her children were well
cared for in lifeboat No. and suffered
no hardships except exposure until the
trawler Primrose picked them up. She
is on her way to New Bedford to join
her husband, who has been here a
year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-03
PERU TO TAX EXPORTS
Bill Presented to Congress to Aid in
Rehabilitating National Finances.

Lima. Sept. Another step was
taken by the Peruvian government to-
day. to rehabilitate the national f.
nances. A bill was presented 10 Con-
gress for the imposition of export du-
ties as follows:
Petroleum. IS cents per ton: miner
ais. 3 per cent ad valorem; sugar II
cents per 100 pounds; cotton. Peruvian
rough. on the basis Of a price OF IA
cents a pound. a duty Of Is cents per
100 pounds: semi-rough Peruvian cot
ton, 10 cents per 100 pounds; soft Pc
iuvian cotton, IL cents TO 4S cents per
100 pounds; wool. IS cents per 100
pounds gross weight; hides. fresh, 21s
cents per kilogram (2.20 pounds;
dry hides. ga cents per kilogram: pig
skins. ga cents per kilogram.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-03
Playwright Says Arabic
Tried to Escape Too Late

Major General Sir Sam Hughes, Min
lister of Militia of Canada, returned
after a visit to the Canadian troops in
Flanders He said he was proud of
them all and of the Americans who
were fighting with them.
Zellah Covington, the playwright, au-
thor of "Some Baby" now playing
here, accompanied by his wife, both
survivors of the Arabic, returned on
the St. Paul.
Mr.. Covington said the steamship
Dunsley had been shelled at 6 a. m. the
morning the Arabic was attacked, but
that the crew was trying to save her.
Later the smoke of the Arabic was
sighted, and the submarine hid behind
the Dunsley. The Arabic saw the
freighter sinking and made for her at
top speed. Some OF the Dunsley's men
tried 70 get away in a lifeboat and
warn the Arabic 10 keep off, but were
ordered back by the submarine com
mander and threatened with death if
they signalled
The Arabic started to get away when
within half mile Of the Dunsley, the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-03
Results of Peace Effort
Expected in Fortnight

Washington, Sept. 1.-THE Pan-Amer-
lean effort to establish peace in Mexico
is expected by State Department Off
cials to produce some definite results
within two weeks. Ambassador Naon,
of Argentina, apparently is convinced
that fortnight will see the end of the
struggle, as he has engaged passage for
Buenos Ayres on September IS.
The plan Of the conferees calls for a
peace conference among the Mexican
leaders Thus far the refusal of Gen
eral Carranza to make any answer to
the appeal to join in this has prevented
any prediction as to the success of the
plan. The peace congress will be held,
however, whether Carranza agrees to
enter it or not, and his refusal to CO.
operate will be regarded by the seven
powers as forfeiting all claim to con-
sideration.
The State Department announced to-
day that the garrsons at Frontera and
San Juan Bautista, in the State of
Tabasco, have revolted against the Car
rama authorities, and that the Cover
nor General and other officers have es-
capped from the state.
General Carranza, according to State
Department advices, has issued a de-
cree reducing mining taxes TO six pesos
a claim for the quarter ending Septem-
her 80. Above twenty-five claims the
rate will be three pesos.
The announcement of the Carranza
agency here that reinforcements of
1000 men had arrived at Nuevo La
redo, and would begin a campaign
against the Villista towns between
Nuevo Laredo and Piedras NeEras was
received with misgivings in official cir
cles The towns lie along the border,
and the danger of stray bullets in Dor
der attacks is considerable. American
troops have orders to repel any firing
Carranzistas to take the towns may
result, it is feared, in serious trouble
for the United States troops.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-03
VICTORY, BERLIN REPEATS
Gives Details of Sinking of Two Brit
ish Ships of Jutland.

Berlin, Sept. 2 (by wireless to Tuck
erton, n. JD.-The German Admiralty
made public to-da. further details Of
the naval engagement on August IT off
the Jutland coast, in which a small
British cruiser and a British destroyer
are said to have been sunk by German
torpedo boats. This statement, the
Overseas News Agency says, was elicit
ed by the assertion of the British Min
lister at Bucharest that the German Of
fetal report was an invention.
"The British forces were completely
surprised by the attack Of German tor
podo boats" the Admiralty says. "A
cruiser belonging to the Aurora class
sank within -FOUR minutes. The de-
stroyer went down Immediately on be-
ing hit by a torpedo"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-03
HAMMOND FOR DEFENCE
frron NE rnhuns Bur,sa. ]

90 Washington, Sept John Hays
Hammond has sent telegram 10 Sec
rotary Garrison assuring him that the
people are behind him IN his work for
national defence. The message fol
lows:
Regardless of politics. the people are
behind you in the important WORK you
are 20 ably doing for our national de-
fence. Any suspicion as 10 your in
tegrity Of purpose is entertained only
BY shallow minds and by seontemptible
politicians whose wish is father 10
the thought 1t will prove 10 be politi-
cal suicide 10 so-ealled leaders Of the
Republican party II they do not eordi-
ally cooperate with the administration
In the matter Of national defence
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-03
FRENCH SILENCE
GERMAN GUNS
Violent Artillery Duels
Along Whole Front
TeutonS Win Trenches.
INCENDIARY SHELLS
USED AT SCISSORS
Exchange of Bombs and Hand
Grenades Features Activ-
itV in West.

London. Sept. Beyond violent ar
tillery duels, the days reports indi-
Gated little activity OF importance on
the west front to-day. The Germans
claim 20 have recovered trenches IN
the Vosges which they lost in the mid
die Of August, while the French simply
refer 20 the heavy artillery engage
meuts which have been the feature Of
the ,Ast nine days. with no suggestion
Of what they foreshadow. Between the
Sommo aud the Disc French batteries
silenced the German fire. At SCISSORS
the Germans have been continuing
their fire OF incendiary shells.
FRENCH OFFICIAL.
The French official communication
was as follows:
In Belgium, replying to lombard
ment directed against the town Of
Newport and the sectors Of Steen-
straete and Borsinghe. our artillery
brought into play an efhcacious FIRE
against the bomb throwers and bat
teries in action and against the as
semblies and parks Of the enemy.
On the Artois front there has been
an exchange of bombs and grenades
at the sapheads. Between the
Somm and the Disc our batteries
nave tlltnCtU Lut ltlt VI Allt 0NA s4AeA
artillery in the environs of Arman-
court and Canny. The enemy has
/. fred a number Of incendiary shells
. on scissors and the region rounda-
bout.
A bombardment, intense and recip-
roeal, has taken place on the Aisne
front betty zen the Vile AUX Bots and
Godat, in Champagne, and on the
western outskirts Of the Argonne. A
cannonade mas occurred in Lorraine
and in the Vosges, in the sector OF
the Fecht.
GERMAN OFFICIAL.
The statement issued at Berlin was
as follows:
In the Vosges, north of Muenster,
our attack on August 81 resulted IN
our recapturinc the trench sections
lost to the French in battles from
August Is 10 % The battle line Of
Lingekopf -Barrenkopf thus passed
again into our possession. All coun-
ter attacks have been repulsed. Sew
cnty-two fountain chasseurs were
taken prisoners Three machine guns
O. we're captured
A FreLch ae- oplane flying over
Avocourte, northwest OF Nerdun, was
shot down ty one Of our battle avia-
tors The machine was set on nre.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-03
Saw Bubble of Torpedo
Before Arabic Was Hit

Probably the most interesting ex-
perience of all survivors of the Arabic
was that Of John Doherty, of Provi-
dence, r. l.. who arrived on the Adri-
attic He, like all others who returned
yesterday, asserted emphatically that
the Arabic had no warning from the
submarine that sank her
IL was sitting on the after hatch
just about where the torpedo struck
us" said Mr.. Doherty 81 think il was
about 9:26 a. m. A torpedo was re-
ported coming for us and | jumped up
TO see. The hatch was covered with
life prescrvers that had been strewn
thsrs when We left Liverpool. and this
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-03
u. S. TASK NOT YET
ENDED, BRITISH SAY
Guarantee Against Germany's
Frightfulness Not Won,
Press Asserts.
lBr Cable 70 Tns Trtbune ]

London, Sept. 1.-The afternoon
papers, commenting on Count Won
Bernstorff's statement to Secretary
Lansing, admit that the United States
has scored a great stroke Of diplo-
macy, but refuses TO grant that any
guarantee against future German
-"frightfuiness" has been given.
"The Standard" says:
"If his (Wilson's) only object is 70
protect American lives he may accept
Won Bernstorff's proposal. But II the
mission of America, as the Presidents
language has itself suggested, is to
uphold the laws of humanity, we fail
T to see how he can accept anything
less than an undertaking by Germany
10 abandon submarine piracy entirely"
Most journals take little stock in
b the illness Of Won Tirpitz. In its
leader, headed dropping the Pirate"
"The Evening News" says:
cit would be foolish 10 suppose the
enemy's apology and the pledge 70
America are signs Of repentance for
murder. The Germans would sink a
dozen Lusitanias and Arabics a day,
loaded with women and children, If
America would keep her people from
sailing in them. And, even now, there
is no promise not 10 murder Ameri-
cans on merchantmen"
"The Westminster Gazette" says;
"The half measure Of immunity con-
fined TO passenger liners and by i'm
plieation leaving merchantmen TO be
sunk at sight without even the poor
protection Of an open boat is obvi-
ously, from our point Of view, very
small instalment Of what we consider
20 be fairness, justice and humanity.
We must hold firmly TO the position
that il IS one Of our main objects
in this war 20 make a complete end
Of the German use OF submarines
against commercial vessels"
Calling the concession "a virtue Of
necessity" "The Globe" says:
mo doubt Berlin calculates that not
only viii its relations with Washing
ton be improved by undertaking not
20 sink liners without warning and
without insuring the safety Of non
eombatants, but also that Americans
will thereby be induced TO revive their
protests against our own interpreta-
tions Of maritime law"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-03

playwright said, but it was then too
late.
Christopher McTamney, a trapeze
performer. said he picked up a passen-
ger, Miss Ross, threw her into a boat,
and then jumped twenty feet into it
himself. There were thirty-seven peo-
pie in this boat, he said, and they
were adrift from 1925 a. m. until 2
o'clock in the afternoon, when they
were picked up by a British patrol,
the Magnolia, on the way to Queens
town.
The patrol boat fired five shots, pre-
sumably at a submarine, McTamney
said
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-03

prisoners ando ne machine gun fell
into the hands of the German troops.
AUSTRIAN OFFICIAL.
The official communication issued to-
day by the War Office in Vienna says:
The pursuit of the Russians is
progressing we'll. In the district of
the Volhynian triangle of fortresses
from Lutsk upward our forces have
crossed the Styr River on a wide
front.
In East Galcia the enemy also is
retreating. The troops of General
Won Boehm- Ermolli entered Brody
Ton the railway about four miles
from the border of Russia and to-
day are advancing east from Brody
across the frontier.
Retreat on Dniester Front.
The north wing of the army of
General Won Bothmer is pursuing the
defeated enemy on the roads from
Zborow, Zalosce and Tarnopol. The
enemy is retreating toward the Sc
reth River.
The army of General Pfanzer. yes
terday, after heavy fighting, repulsed
the enemy across the heights of the
lower Stripa River Under this shock
the Russians retreated from the
Dniester front up to the confluence
of the Sereth River.
Behind the Russian position on the
Bessarabla frontier numerous viii
lagos are burning.
The Austro- Hungarian and Ger
man troops fighting northeast of
Kobrin Gin Russia TO the northeast
1f I ,tlr~~lA L., HI.
ing the enemy back in the marshy
district of the upper Jasiolda River.
There is no change in the situation.
RUSSIAN OFFICIAL.
The following official communica-
ton was issued to-day:
ION the Riga-Dyinsk front, general
ly speaking, there has been no impor-
tant change. The German attack in
the region of Friedrichstadt again has
been repulsed.
"Our troops are making successful
progress between the Sventa and the
Viliya rivers. They are approaching
very near Wilkomir and further on
they occupy the front of Syyentsyany,
Mizsayala-Zukshty. On the evening
of September 1 near Svyentsyany our
cavalry carried two villages at the point
of the bayonet, repulsing the Germans
in disorder and making prisoners.
Progressing along the right bank
of the Viliya we Captured from the
Germans in the Dukshty region one
mortar and several caissons. The
situation between the Viliya and
Niemen rivers is unchanged. The
enemys efforts are directed chiefly
along the 'Olita-Merecz road, where
the night of the first we repulsed
many obstinate attacks. A stubborn
fight occurred near Orany.
Near Grodno, after having held
the enemy as long as necessary 10
enable US TO evacuate this point, our
troops on the night of the first crossed
to the right bank of the Nemen
River.
ITO the south of Grodno. on the
whole front as far as the Pripet River,
the situations is without essential
change.
"The enemy has occupied Lutsk.
"In conformity with the retreating
movement from the Styr River our
troops in Galicia have occupied new
positions, enabling us TO cover our
movements with rea guards. The
enemy has again suffered very heav-
lily in the rear guard actions In the
regions OF Zolonczon and Lborow and
at the mouth of the Stripa. After re-
pulsing here repeated attacks we as
sumed a partial offensive, capturing
machine guns, prisoners and much
war material"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-03
GREY'S FREEDOM OF SEAS"
HELD NO HINT AT PEACE
lBy Cable 10 The Tnbune,l

10y AAuAe W AAN ANASettN7l
London, Sept. Much discussion
has occurred recently regarding
whether the phrase Freedom of the
Seas" in Sir Edward Grey's letter TO
the newspapers had any bearing on
the possibilities of early peace ne
gotiations.
To-day IL is authoritatively stated
10 The Tribune correspondent that
the phrase had no such meaning.
The attitude Of Britain toward peace
Is still unchanged since the pro-
nouncement of Asquiths and Grey
last fall.