, 1916-09-09
Censored at Jamaica.l

clured at $50 o'clock Tonight by unlonized
employees of the Subway and Elevated Rail
way Lines, operated by the marlborough
Rapid Transil Company, in this city. Ab.af
1900 of the II, 700 car men in the Comprny's
pay voted at a mass meeting to quit work
Immediately. Officials of the Union asserted
that with the possible exception of the lines
in Brooklyn, New York's electric Transports
ton facilities would be completed paraiyzel
by morning. They were confident they said
that the motor-men aud conductors on
the surface lines in Manhattan, Harlem
and the Bronx also. would strike through
sympathy. A meeting of the employees at
the Third Avenue Railway Company to vote
on the question of sympathetic strike, it was
announced, has been called for to morrow. AT
Police Headquarters il was said 5000 patrol
men were available to protect the Iuterbo.
rough car barns Six hundred Deteclves
on reserve in the greater city were ordered
to remain on duty. marlborough car barns
gave the appearances of barracks. Approx,
mately 4, 800 men were being housed ard
fed under preparation for the anticipated
strike order. Most Of the men were hired
by striGe-bre0king agencies at the time of
the railroad emergency and were tNk-
en- on without lapse of employment on
the Interborougb. Employees on the
'Green Car" line of the New Yolk
Railways Company shortly after II
O'Clock tonight voted to go on strike ut
once. This is the most important Of The sur.
face car lines in the city. The men acted
through sympathy for the subway and ele-
waited railways employees whose demand for
an annulnlent of individual contracts bind
ing them not TO seek wage Increases for two
years, was denied by the Interhoroueh Rapid
Transit Company. Should the strikers sue,
oooI - fl1oi, n ooI r1,,o Than, 80 nnn 49,,
ployees will be affected aud New York VIII
face the worst tie up Of lis transportation
lines in its history.
New York, Sept. 6th-A Zurich despatch
to the Journal says, according to Austrian
admissions, the Roumanions in Que week Of
war captured more than 1000 square miles
of territory in Hungary. The region occu-
pied includes some of the most desirable Sec
tons of TIansylvonia. Iu ii are many towns
and several cities, one of which is a famous
watering place.
Petrograd, Sept. 7(b.--Ihe Russians are
bomb0rdiDg the Galician town Of Halicz,
about 60 miles southeast of Lemberg, SAYS
the official report issued today, and the town
is in flames. The Russian statement adds
that Russian troops bave occupied the rail-
way line between Halicz aud Semikoviyzae
and Wodni.
Petrogrnd, Sept. 7h.-The recent attack
at Sviniuski, 90 miles southeast Of Vladimir
Volunski, was hernIded by dramatic incident.
Dusing the artillery preparation in this part
the Teutons were treated literally to the new
Russian gas shell. The Austrian fire was
suddenly silenced. The Russians, rushing
forward, found the trenches teuauted OF y
by dead grmly grotesque figures lying or
leaning evidently killed instantly by tbs
fumes of the gas. The number of AustI ians
who thus persisted was several hundred.
On Thursday morning there was a five hour
artillery preparation. BY two o'clock III The
afternoon three lines of Teutonic trenches
had been captured aleug Il front OF 20 miles.
Three thousand prisoners, many Of them
Germans, have arrived at Lutsk.
Paris, Sept. 7th.--The French have cap
tured the German first line trenches over q
front of one mile on the Verdun front, the
War Office announced today. The breach
in the German line was effected on the front
northeast of VerduD, between the Vaux
Chapitre region am Chenois. They took
$50 prisoners. The French statement adds
that a powerful effort, made by German
troops to dislodge the French. from Hospital
Farm, on the Somme front, was withuus
success and hat the Germans were dispersed