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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-06
FOOD HIGHER IN SPAIN
War Boosts Prices and Coun-
try Suffers Severely.

Madrid via Paris) March 5.-Evidence
that : ain is suffering more severely
economically from the War than any
country except the belligerents is con-
tanned in dispatches from different pro-
vincial centres. Notwithstanding dras-
Ii. asures taken by the government
to prevent monopoiistic prices, the co st
Of food. espt cially bread and meat, con
tinues to rise. The situation is felt
most acutely by the working classes, al
ready hard hit by the industrial stagna-
ton resulting from the war.
At Pampeluna, Seville, Saragossa and
Cadiz economic difficulties are becoming
so serious that the authorities have
been obliged TO resort to drastic expe-
dents.
Grave disorde~s have occurred at
Mucia, capital of a medieval Moorish
kingdom and the modern province of
that name A mob Of city residents
stormed the bakeshops, and civil guards
had to bar the gates to keep country
people from coming in to increase the
tumult
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-06
PRO.GERMAN PAPER
AUTO BANDIT WORK
Several Arrests Made in Paris
Important Developments
Expected.

Paris, March 5.-Persons said 10
have been connected at one time with
the notorious Bonnet band Of auto
bandits are charged by the police, &C
cording to to-day's papers. with being
responsible for the authorship OF a
seditious pamphlet with the title
People. You Are Being Deceived" in
which a plea is made for the cause
OF Germany. Several arrests have
been made.
1t is stated that those taken into
custody include Lorulot. former edl.
tor of the newspaper "L'Anarchie,
and Jeanne Benardi. a friend of the
anarchist bandit Carouy, who com
mitted suicide in his cell in the Con-
ciergerie prison after he had been
sentenced to life Imprisonment for his
share in the sensational exploits OF
the outlaw gang, which was not broken
up until the melodramatic battle with
the police at Choisy-le-ROy on April
2S, 1912.
1t is understood that those under
suspicion will be tried by court mar
tial at Marseilles. The police are
maintaining the strictest secrecy re
garding the case, which the newspa-
pers declare is likely to have impor-
tant Tamitications.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-06
Isolated German Columns
Fight Rearguard Action
Try Cable 10 The Tribune J

Petrograd. March 5.-The German in
vasion from East Prussia finally has
been resolved into a number of $50
lated columns. with each of which the
Russian forces are adequately dealing.
None Of these columns is advanta-
geously placed, even a part from the
all-important problem of supply at this
season of the year. Beginning with
what should have been the German lett
and passing southwestwards to what
should have been their right, their
position is as follows:
A German column is being held IN
the defiles between the lakes and the
difficult country about Serge and Smno.
In the Grodno region the Russians are
again advancing. The bombardment OF
the fortress Of Ossowetz continues, but
already It has been demonstrated that
the German 42-centimetre howitzers
are less effective here than their
smaller guns requiring less elaborate
preparations 10 insure accurate fire.
Attempts TO invest OssowetZ have
failed. The Russians caught consld-
cradle body of the invaders eighteen
miles northeast of Lomza. On the west
hank of the Bobr River the Germans
have intrenched themselves in the hilly
country. with their backs TO the river
and swamps beyond. Hand-to-hand
fighting is in progress at this point.
The fighting has been especially severe
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-06
BRITISH CLEARED
OF GERMAN CHARGES
Steamers Carib and Evelyn Not
Following Directions Given
by the English.

Washington. March 5.-Commander
Gherardi's supplementary report on his
investigation Of the sinking OF the
American cotton steamers Carib and
Evelyn by mines in the North Sea, re-
ceived from Berlin, says
Both boats sunk by mines. No false
directions given by British. Both SIM
ply ran on mine fields"
II had been said that the ships were
eff courses furnished by the German
authorities and were following routes
given by British officials.
The German Foreign Office has in
formed Ambassador Gerard that five
men Of the Evelyn's crew have sailed
from Bremen on the steamer Matanzas,
and twenty-one men are to return to
New York shortly on the steamers FL
Dia and J. l.. Luckenbach. Two Nor
wegians from the Carib elected to re-
main at Bremen, but the remainder,
including her captain and twenty-four
men. left Bremen on Wednesday for
Rotterdam.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-06
GERMAN RESENTS
u. s. ATTITUDE
A General Staff Officer Re-
grets Our Lack of
Sympathy.

A letter received in New York re-
Gently from an officer serving at the
headquarters of the German General
staff in France throws some light on
the point of view OF the average edu-
Gated German with regard to American
sentiment on the subject of the great
war. The letter follows:
Headquarters General Staff OF the Ger
man Army in France.
January I, 1915.
NV Dear Mr.. W: | received yester-
day your little New Years card 1t
gave me untold pleasure and reminded
me Of our wonderful automobile trip
in the White Mountains. Eow long ago
il seems! 1t appears to me that years
and years have passed since then. Al
that time there was peace and now
war.
! must say, dear Mr.. W, that | am
really sad that the Americans have so
little sympathy for us Germans. | I'M
derstand fully that you, for instance,
should be against US. Your mother Is
of French origin and you have lived
much in France. | also understand that
those Americans who are delivering
war material to England, France and
Russia should be admirers of the Al
lies. That is human. But ! cannot I'M
derstand that the others are against us.
England always has trodden the
Americans under foot always treated
them with little consideration-an
America is so friend. to England that
she sends her war material (conse-
quently breaks her strict neutrality.
The American army and fleet sing the
English war songs. All the New York
papers only love and praise England.
And how shortsighted is this American
policy! The reason for the American
hatred Of Germans seems to be so in
applicable!
Is there any nation in the world
which really believes all this trash
about our brutalities and laying waste
without necessity-all these lies
Everybody who knows a German knows
that the German is as easygoing as a
child | myself have seen through the
whole war how our soldiers the bar
barans"- shared their own bread
with the people.
OF course, where our brave men have
been attacked in a cowardly way in the
back by snipers we were forced to
mete out severe punishment, and we
don't understand why every chivalrous
nation should not be full of admiration
for little Germany fighting the world.
You should see our soldiers, laughing
and singing as they attack the enemy,
and, when they are wounded or dying,
with their last breath they cry: Long
live the Kaiser and Germany" And
can the eutral nations believe that
Germany can be conquered? You don't
grasp how strong Germany is.
| am well, and have been here in
France as a rtaff officer on the General
Staff for three months. and have much
hard and Interesting work to do. Dear
Mr.. W, again many thanks, etc.
(Signed) X. Won l..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-06
FRENCH TAKE LONG
LINE OF TRENCHES
Germans Driven from $50 Yards
of EarthWOrks in Cham
pagne Region.

London. March 5.-The French re-
port additional gains in the Cham
payne region. At one place, north Of
Mesnil, near Beausejour, according to
to-night's official report from Paris.
they seized $50 yards OF German
trenches.
A dispatch from Bethune says that
on March a bold attack on a German
trench was made by Canadian troops.
Tho Canadians lost one killed and one
wounded, and are said to have inflicted
a considerable loss on the Germans.
According to a dispatch from Basel,
the Germans are sending new forma-
tions of reserves into Alsace. The new
troops are from garrisOns in Writ
temburg and Bavaria. Ordinary traffic
o. the railroad lines in this section has
been suspended.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-06
NEW MYSTERY ON
INTERNED SHIPS
Night Activity May Mean That
the Germans Plan Sea Dash
from HobOken.

Mysterious activities have been man
ifested on the docks o. the German
steamship companies in Hoboken dur
ing the last few nights. The gates
leading to the streets are carefully
closed, locked and guarded, and only
those provided with special passes are
able to get by the watchmen.
While to all appearances from land
the docks are deserted and quiet, a diff
ferent picture is revealed to those who
approach them from the river. There
searchlights play upon the docks, and
in their glare longshoremen can be
seen actively engaged in transferring
kegs and boxes from tugs and lighters
to the piers.
When the docks were built after the
big fire ten years ago, the ground floors
were equipped as store rooms. They
open directly on the river front and
are only a few feet above the water
line.
At the Offices Of the Hamburg Amer
lean Line and the North German Lloyd
no information could be obtained about
the nature of the mysterious cargoes
which are unloaded nightly.
Richard Peter Stegler, arrested re-
Gently in connection with the alleged
passport frauds. in his confession to the
federal authorities charged that the
German liners informed in Hoboken
were gradually being equipped as aux
iliary cruisers. He claimed that under
the direction of Captain Boyd, the
German Naval Attsche, guns in parts
were taken aboard the vessels, and
that they were being supplied with
ammunition and provisions. According
to Stegler, the faster Of the informed
ships are to make a dash toward the
Atlantic at an opportune moment.
There they will become sea raiders,
Stegler claimed.
There are at present fourteen Ger
man ships informed in Hoboken. Most
of them are listed as auxiliary cruis-
ers in the German navy. These were
formally informed by the officials of the
companies which own them.
Sailors aboard the German boats say
that no cargoes have been taken aboard,
but that work is being done in the
storerooms under the piers. Strict r.
ders have been issued by the officials
Of the German steamship companies to
their employees not TO make any state
ments, LIT TO refer inquirers to hea :
quarters, where diplomatic silence is
maintained But the men know that
something big is afoot, and among
themselves they toast "the day on
which they will hoist anchor and steam
away with the expectation of taking
part in the gigantic war game.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-06
ZEPPELIN RAID
ON COAST F0ILED
rRy cable 20 The Tribunc. !

Northern France name of town
censored, March "a Zeppelin raid
on the northeast coast of France WAS
attempted last night. but without sue
cess. About 10 o'clock a Zeppelin was
seen passing over Calais, in the direc-
ton of Boulogne. The alarm at once
was given and precautionary measures
were taken at the latter port.
Watch was kept all night and all
work on the quays was suspended.
Nothing, however, was seen there OF
the Zeppelin, which, it is thought, was
warned by the searchlights that the
town was ready for its attack. APP
parently il remained over the sea and
retreated without being able to ac-
complish its object.
The night was wet aud misty and it
is possible that the weather conditions
alone account for the Zeppelin's fail.
ure. After leaving Calais, the Zeppe-
lin was not seen again until il passed
Gravelines, going eastward.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-06
Save LACE ART, IS
PLEA OF COUNTESS
Titled Woman Here to Beg
Aid for Industry of
Belgian Women.
TELLS HOW GERMANS
PILLAGED HER HOME
Lady Marie de Hemptlnne Fears
Needle Skill Will Be Lost
Unless Americans Help.

"All that I had-paintings furniture,
silver, tapestries, china. the very wire
or the walls-the Germans have taken
from my vLla, on the Degue, at ostehd'
They spared nothing"
Thus the Countess Marie de Hemp.
Time, ady-in-waiting TO the Queen OF
the Belgians. described to The Tribune
yesterday the pillage of her home.
Countess de Hemptinne is staying at
the Plaza. She mas been sent by the
Belgian Queen TO try TO secure FUNDS
to save the lace industry OF the women
of Belgium.
81 was in Ostend when the war broke
out" she said, land other ladies and
myself opened a hospital. After the
fall of Antwerp refugees poured into
the town; from October 10 to Ia we
were without bread. There was very
great misery; the refugees crowded out
on the docks, and the Taubes dropped
bombs on them from overhead.
"On the morning of October IL the
wounded left for England and at D
o'clock the next morning we left, too.
There was no bread on the ship, and
no water; and the Taubes, though they
as the decks we're black with people,
dropped bombs upon it,"
The countess, who is young woman
Of great beauty, said she had little
hope of Ostend; the British lombard
ment had destroyed much of it in the
effort to drive out the Germans, and
large part had been mined by the
Germans and would undoubtedly be de-
pressed back.
81 have come to this country TO try
to interest Americans TO help us save
the lace industry in Belgium. The
women will lose their ability. 1t is not
paying them to make lace.
There is but one way to remedy
this. II is TO get enough money to-
gether to enable them to live for the
few months which it will take them
to begin again, with profit, their for
mer work. Fifty dollars, we think,
should be enough 10 keep each of these
lace workers, with her family, for three
months; but there are 10000 OF them
1--WE cannot help them all. perhaps,
but we wish to keep the youngest of
them in the work, so that 1t will not
die out. | have with me twenty sam
pies Of lace, from which those who
wish to order can choose now, thus
helping these families in advance"
The countess said that an album con-
tanning the lanes of patrons and other
contributors would be given to the
Queen and the Princess Napoleon. he
hoped that Americans, who had been so
rou. to the Belgians, would tale
to heart the pres ,rvation OF this il
dustry of the women.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-06
Germans Abandon Myszyniec
on East Prussian Border

Berlin, March 5 (by wireless to Say
Vile, n. " The campaign in Poland
appears to be at present an affair of
shifting local successes for one side
and the other, without particular sig
nificance.
The Germans have been compelled to
retire before superior Russian forces
from Myszyniec, which lies close TO the
East Prussian border.
The report that two OF the forts at
Ossowetz heve been destroyed has not
been confirmed officially, but it follows
the Russian report that heavy batteries
have been brought into positio before
the city. If this report be true, 1t
means a considerable success for the
Germans.
Galicia is still the scene Of general
heavy fighting, with the Russians main
lining desperate offensive.
Russian Losses Heavy.
The fighting in the Carpathians is
growing more intense hourly, and the
Russians have been forced to assume
the defensive despite their energetic
exertions. according to a dispatch sent
by Herr Lennhof, correspondent of the
Mittag-Zeitung" from Austrian head
quarters. Herr LennhOfs message con-
tlnues:
"They show great skill in utilizing
Typographical advantages TO ward off
enveloping movements of the Germans
and Austrians by desperate fighting and
counter attacks. but their offensive
rower evidently is waning. The Rus
sian losses have been very hSvy.
"The Germans and Austrians within
few days have wrested from the
Russians the positions previously
gained on the Uzsok-Lupkow line. All
the Russian efforts TO recover the lost
positions have been repulSed."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-06
ALLIES TO CARE FOR u. 5.
SHIPPERS IN BLOCKADE
Great Britain Determined to Starve Out Germany but
American Cargoes Will Be Bought by Nation
Which Makes Arrest High Seas.

fall into the hands OF the Allies, the
loss to the American shipper must
come entirely in the form or loss
Of his superadded profits; in .other
words. from the opportunity OF ais
nosing OF his products where the de-
mand and consequently the prices aIe
highest. lie will not be made 10 suner
either loss Of his property or an en-.
tire loss Of his profits. for both rrHhoe
and Great Britain can find ample use
for the greater portion OF the earRoes
which their vessels shall seize. ana
will pay for them, it is understood o"
n reasonable market scale. -,
Secretary of State Bryan Is with
holding publication of the text OF the
American communications TO Germany
and Great Britain of February ~. Al
though the text of the German answer
came to hand yesterday. and the pur-
port Of the German answer mas Deen
known for several days. Great Britain
has not agreed upon date lor mar
ing the American note public, nor mas
she transmitted her own reply.
The serious situation in Germany III
the matter of her food supply, whlch
was shown conclusively in the report
OF Vice Consul General Louis "; prey
fus. ir.. from Berlin, in The Tribune
of to-day. has for many weeks been
Known TO Great Britain in far more
intimate detail even than the Dreyfus
report showed. The determination OF
France and Great Britain to starye
GERMANY out is predcated upon TINS
self same knowledge, together with a
fuli realization that Germany will SUI,
fsr erievously through lack of food
SUPPLIES for the next four months
more grievously than thereafter, pro.
viSed The grain crops for the coming
season are reasonably full.
Secretary Bryan announced this az
ternoon that no new proposals looking
n presenting suggestions of peace had
lately been received at the State De-
ro ,tueDt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-06
on the German frontier between Cherz-
helle and Mlawa
Struggling to Get Away.

on the German frontier between Cher]-
helle and Mlawa.
Struggling to Get Away.
As the Germans wcrs never allowed
to consolidate their fighting line, but
were attacked during their preliminary
movements while in marching ORDER
and as none of their isolated columns
had any success and each is now hight
ing desperately 10 get away, losing
more prisoners. TO say nothing of killed
and wounded, than they have hitherto
yielded anywhere. it seems evident that
very little may turn their failure INTO
disaster. Strenuous efforts are being
made at least to destroy the fortress
Of Ossowetz, it is believed here, that
some trophy Of this raid may remain
10 preserve the face Of the German
commander in chief. Those corps on
which the Germans particularly prlde
themselves. the Goth and 2lst. have
been the ones to suffer most seVerely
at the Russians hands. The Fast
Prussian Goth. both before Przasnysz
and in the subsequent fighting yielded
many prisoners.
On the main front Of the Carpathians
the appalling slaughter continues. Inc
Austrian and Austro-German corps
keep on throwing lives away without
effect against the Russian POSITIONS
Whole divisions of Hungarians are re-
ported TO have been destroyed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-06
Thrust Column of lnvad-
ers Across East Prus-
sian Border.
DRIVE IN BUKOWlNA
PRESSES AUSTRIANS
Cars Troops Near Czernowitz
and in StaniSlau-GermanS
Attack OSSOWetz.

London. March Except in the Cen
trail Beskid Pass of the Carpathians,
where the fierce Austrian attacks have
moderated somewhat, the Russians are
now on the offensive along the whole
length of their extremely long line.
from the Baltic Sea 10 the Rumanian
border Apparently they have definite
ly disposed Of the German and Aus
TRAN attempts to outhank their two
extreme wings, and, having turned, are
making slow but steady progress west
ward.
After retiring right back 10 the
Dniester River the Russians again have
crossed into Bukowina, and are I'M
officially reported 10 be back in
Czernowitz, which military men say Is
extremely probable, as they already
had captured Sadagora, few miles to
the northeast of the capital Further
TO the west they are again i'll posses
sion Of Stanislau. and have crossed the
Lukwa River, a forward step. which, in
the opinion OF military experts, prob
ably will compel the Austrians to
evacuate Bukowins.
Russians s END More Troops.
In the Beskid, Tukholka And pzsok
passes the Austro- Germans Sreh pos
session Of strong positions, whence
they are continually attacking the Rus
slams. In the western passes, esps-
cially the Dukla, the Russians are on
the Hungarian slopes, where the fight
ing has degenerated into trench war
fare. The Russians are sending large
achievements to this southern line.
In Northern Poland the Russians are
advancing slowly westward from the
Niemen River a. the Germans are
fighting a rear guard action. Only at
one point is the German attack being
seriously pressed-against the fortress
of Ossowetz. Here the Germans can
use their railway from Lyck and there
is a good road across the marshes, but,
with their armies falling back On either
side, they cannot remain long, military
experts say. The fortress is still sue
Cttbl INV wv 'ioi'
siege artillery.
Germans Pressed Across Line.
To the south. according to a Berlin
dispatch, the Germans have evacuated
Myszyniec, which is right on the East
Prussan border, northwest of Lomza,
while further west, near Mlawa, hey
are believed to have o-ossed the border,
after defeat 1t Przssnysz.
The Prussians also show revived
activity in Central Poland, and have
attacked the Germans east Of Plock and
near Skierniewice, southwest of War
saw.
An unofficial dispatch from Przasnysz
declares that altogether the Russians
captured twelve gun. and twentynine
Maxims, with their cars, and 1872 ammu-
milton cases and one aerOplane in the
fighting there.
Reuters Petrograd correspondent
telegraphs that during the operations
around Stanislau, between February 81
and March 3, the Russians made 153
officers and 1892 men prisoners and
captured five guns, siXty-two machine
guns, 5l9 horses and numerous trains.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-06
Greenland's Icy Mountains
Send Their Dogs of War.

Berlin Thy wireless TO SayvilIe,
y. ", March 5.-A Vienna dis
patch says that a DR.. koenig has
presented to the military authori-
ties ninety dogs from Greenland for
the purpose of drawing sleds loaded
with ammunition and provision.
through the snow covered region.
This innovation already has proved
TO be a success.