, 1916-02-09

killed, eleven wounded and twenty made
pisorers. The lists also. contain the N mes
Of five Generals killed and two wounded.
The missing include the entire 18th. jaeger
Regiment.
st. Louis, Me. Feby. 3rd-President VII
son to. dry told an audience Of Is, 600 which
swayed with a tumult of cheering, thot the
United States should have The greatest
Navy in the world. 81 believe thr Navy OF
The United States should be uucouquera-
bic" he said, 'the greatest in 'he world,
Upon the oce az, there are hundreds or
cargoes Of American goods. Cotton, grnln
and all the bouutitul supplies America IS
sending ont TO the world, and any Of those
ships may be the point OF contact that will
bring America into the war" For the first
time during the tour, the Preei lent told
how one set of bellieerepts was cut off from
the world. He said, this KEEP the United
Suites from helping them as it woaId hike.
He made the ste emert in tly,nE to show
tbat the United States was really neutral.
New Port News, Feby. 4tb.-Lieu Berg,
commanding The prize ship Appam, talked
for the first time last DIght OF lbs cruise. lie
lidicu!ed the suggestion that his raider was
the new fruit tlNder Ponga, insisting That
she was the Noewp. He confirmed the oc-
counts of his cap ure OF seven hngilsh~Xes-
sells md declared he had noihlpg 10 say re-
gardiug future plans. AS to The raider be
ing neither The Pouga or the Reon. 81 say
only his aid never shall say more, my
ship was His Majrsty's Moewe', 'But is she
the original Aioewe or is She another shlp
converted into a war vesse! and given the
name OF he Motwe"? The Lieut.. appeared
amazed at The question and replied "ASuln /
say il is the Moewe".
Stockl DIM, Fety. 4th-It is officially an
rounced from the Ford Bureau chat The
Neutral Peace Conference viii be declared
temporarily opened on Feby. 7th III THIS city.
New Port News, Va. Feby. 4th.-Oniy
Lieut.. Berg ard bis small crew remained
to.day nboard lbe former British passenger
steamer "Arpam". The liners passengers
and original ships company taken prisoners
when the steamer was captured by a myaterl-
Gus German raider off The Canary islands ON
the 10Th. were liberated last night by order of
the United States Government. Tn p9ssen-
gefs to-day were pul aboard the old Dominion
liner 81 ffeIson" en- route for New ok
where they were expected to arrive eaIly to-
night.
Petrograd, Feby. 4th.-The Russian War
Office has issued the following official state
ment On the western front between Lake
Babit and the Mitau road our detachments
crossed German wire eutaH glemeute ~ order
to attack enemy working parties. Southeast
Of Riga our armoured autos made q dash III
advance of entertainments, fired on enemy
positions and returned without damage,
though under violent artillery fire. In
Galcia to the southeast Of E'zeln sIa-
ton on the Tnrnopol-Lemheig line our
detachments with ire assistance Of ar
tillery delivered a successful attack, de
stroying the enemy's observation post
and pursuing the fleeing garrison OF the
latter. South Of Elzern station both sides
kept up an artillery battle ali day with hight
and heavy guns, On the middle Strpn front,
our batteries bit an enemy aeroplane Which
FIJI inside tie eDemy's lines. Along the
Dnieser and the front between the Dniester
and Pluth, the enemy bombarded Our posi-
tions using twelve inch guns. Under cover
of this fire, the enemy twice attempted
10 advance i'll the region Of Uscieczke, but
vas lepuls ed.
On the Caucasus front our advance COL
tibues successfully. IN one of the enemy's
rearquard positions were found 293 bodies
of infantIymen frozen stiff. During the pur-
suit we captured several head OF cattle.
Providence, r. T., Feby. 4h-The Provi-
dence journal says to-day: ''Ihe Providence
journal three weeks ago notified the Depart
ment of Justice at Washington that it had