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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-01
Troops at Apex Imperilled.

What these positions are we may
only conjecture. but it is safe TO con-
lecture that they will be positions well
west of the apex of the angle, and thus
beyond any peril of an encircling move
mcnt coming through the two sets oil
Rumanian passes. the Gyimes and
Oitoz on the east and the Red Tower
and Predeal on the south. Such posi-
ton can be found on the map behind
the Maros River, which cuts from
northeast to southwest straight across
Pennsylvania. This is the line from
Dorna Watra to Orsova mentioned
in recent dispatches.
A second position is found along
the mountains which divide Tran
sylvania from Hungary. These noun
tains are much iowcr than those
along the Rumanian and Bukovna
frontiers, they are cut BY many
more passes and roads, but they are,
none the less, considerable military
obstacles and they are reached by
many railroads coming up out Of the
hungarian plain and thus supplying
the defending armies with easy com
munications with their bases. Both
the line of the Maros and that of the
Western Transylvanian mountains
would be much shorte- than the line at
the frontier, the Maros perhaps 800
miles against 500 miles, the Transyi-
vanian Mountains not much more than
$50, a half of the mountain line.
Aust AN Retreat Forecast.
We NAV conjecture then that under
pressure the Austrians Will draw out
Of the apex Of TIE acute angle between
Red Towe. AZ Gyimes passes. we
may guess that they will stand behlnd
the Maros line for considerable time'
unless the Russians are able 10 force
their way south over the Borgo, Mill
baba and Delatyn passes, in when case
they would turn the Msros POSITION:
We may conjecture that the last line OF
Austrian defence will be the mountains
on the frontier OF Hungary from East
ern Galicia right down TO the Iron
Gates. T,
Go back to the Italian campaign and
il will be recalled that the first oper-
atoms were those directed at giving
Italy "A strong position OIL her Irentlne
front; her second effort was truly Of
fcuSiVe and at the l~ONLp nv "
cisive consequences OF Rumanlan inter-
vention, if there are decisive cdnse
nucnces. will be discovered IN the Bal
Ians rather than in Austria, but prob
ably the blow will be delirered by Rus
sian troops crossing Rumania and en-
teriny Bulgaria from The north, Will lie
Sarrairs army comes up from ga
Ion;ca In this Rums1a will not nee
esgarily play any considerable role.
The purpose OF Rumanian strategy IS
not a little Influenced by political con
siderations. Transylvania IS TO the
Rumanian what Alslce-l,orraine Is 20
the Frcnchman and the lrentino to the
Italian. King Ferdinand is bound now
10 endeavor to get as large a portion
Of the province as he can at the outset.
In doing this he will carry the war
into hostile territoryA and. By taxing
both slopes Of the mountains at ms
own frontier, he will repeat the defen-
siye.offcnsivc of Cadorna along. the
Italian front in the TreDtine and Ca
dorc sectors more than year ago
The feat will be far easier than the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-01
FEARS LIMA MOB,
ASKS FOR TROOPS
Ohio Prosecutor Appeals to the
Governors Secretary.

Lima Ohio. Aug. 3l.-Prosecuting Al
torney Ortha Barr of Alien County
this evening informally appealed to
Forest Topton, secretary 20 Governor
Willis, to send state troops to this city.
He said they were needed 20 prevent a
revival of the mob spirit following the
attempt last night to lynch Charles
Daniels. n negro. who is alleged 20 have
assaulted Mrs. John Baber, wife OF an
Allen County farmer. o..
Sheriff Sherman Eley, who was tor
tured last night until he directed the
mob to Ottawa, where he had taken
Daniels for safety and where he made
lis escape from the angered crowd, re-
turned 10 Lima to-day to learn that
his little daughter had died from
shock. caused last night when the mob
forced the Jail while looking for the
negro.
The negro tonight was in the Henry
County Jail, at Napoleon, where he was
rushed late last night while the mob
was en- route from Lima to Ottawa 70
get him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-01
RUMANIA PUTS BAN
ON ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS
Follows Lead of Russia, Britain
and France.

Bucharest, Aug. 3l.-The police com
missioners have forbidden the sale and
consumption Of alcoholic liquors in all
establishments throughout Rumania
under penalty of severe punishment.
Rumania's action follows the lead of
many of the European countries now at
war, including Russia, France and
Great Britain.
Russia, the first to act, abolished
liquor traffic by imperial decree at the
outbreak of the war. The sale of in
toxicants fell within year and half
from nearly 1,000,000,000 rubles to ap-
proximately per cent of that sum. the
latter largely for medicinal purposes.
Great Britain restricted the sale of
LIQUOR in the munitions areas. The sale
of intoxicants in licensed houses is only
permitted for four hours a day, and six
months Imprisonment and a fine OF
$500 is the punishment for contravening
the regulations. ,.,,
In France wine shops are forbidden
to sell any form of alcohol before noon
Sales to women and children are
barred at any hour.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-01
Germans Have Plenty
to Eat, Minister Says
Head of Interior Department Insists That Crops Are
Ample and That the Empire Is Now
Self-Sustaining.

half English acres, have been increased
in recent years through scientific meth
DDS, as the following figures show:
1.-The crops from 1888 to 1887 COM
pare with the crops from 1909 TO 1872
as follows, per hectare: Rye advanced
from 90 to 37.6 hundredweight. wheat
from POS to Ala hundredweieht, oats
from 226 TO SO, spring barley from 2o.6
to 40.2 and potatoes from 174.S to 266.s::
"The increase in the area cultivated
is SIS per cent, but the increase IN
crops is ST. per cent, making the
greater net return a hectare III per
cent"
Shortage of Fodder.
at cannot be denied that in the mat
ter OF animal foodstufs we are sit
uated less favorably since our imports
were cut off. However, this years hay
crop is good. Furthermore, substitutes
were raised to better this condition
materially. For 1917 we have in view
from 10000 to 100000 tons OF arti-
fetal fodder.
Sugar production in the present
year, owing 20 favorable weather and
an increase in area amounting 20 10 or
10 per cent, will be materially larger
so that it will be possible easily 70
meet the demand for local consump,
ton, leaving enough beets for animal
feed. 1t should be borne in mind that
Germany in peace days was the
greatest sugar exporter, selling for
the foreign markets almost half her
total production.
"The fact that Germany is cut Oft
from the foreign feed market UNI
doubtedly has rendered difficult the
keeping of livestock, resulting in lin
itation Of meat and milk products.
This Limitation is felt, of couIse, but
it is not fatal
Or. Hclferich then spoke of the
present harvest, saying it was much
better than that of last year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-01
S. I. GAS COMPANY SOLD
Dawes Syndicate Gets Controlling In
terest in Richmond System.

The controlling interest in the New
York and Richmond County Gas Com.
pany, which owns the gas system OF
Staten Island, was purchased yesterday
by the Dawes Syndicate, which viii
take over the plant to-day. The pur-
chase price was not made known.
The gas company was. formed more
than forty years ago. Staten Island
business men controlled it until 1891,
when their interest was bought by Phil
adelphians.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-01
New APARTMENT for Drive.

The Riverside Drive apartment colony
is 10 be enlarged by the erection Of
a twelye-storv structure, a short dis
lance north Of 122d Street. Il will be
built b. the McMorrow Engineering and
Constrr ton Company, sl,5OO,OOO being
Evolved in the transaction.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-01

. m the Macedonian front. Our troops,
who reached and captured the posi-
tions indicated to them, are now con-
solidating their captures.
After the defeat inflicted upon him
had broken his offensive, the enemy
contented himself all along the front
with maintaining an artillery fire with
out effect.
OnIv TO the north Of Lake Ostrovo
and in the DelmanitZa Valley has the
pnemy striven by fruitless counter at
tacks in the region of his lost POSI-
lions 20 modify the situation, which mas
become precarious for him. All these
attempts were repulsed. 80,
ON Lake Ahinos we sank two hostile
steam launches by artillery ire:
The enemy's feet bombarded, with
out result, the mouth Of the Mista' and
an aerial squadron attacked bridge
near the Buk station, without DONG
any damage.
Vienna, Aug. T.-To-ddy'S otc1ds
announcement follo'cs:
On the heights east of Herculcsfurdo
lalSO known as McHdui"J
tacks were repulsed.
Austro- Hungarian troops lighting IN
the Csik Mountains took new positions
on the heights west of Cslk Szereda.
Bucharest, Aug. 8.-The Rumd-
MAN official announcement Of last
Tuesday, delayed IN Transmission,
reads:
General mobilization OF the Ruma-
MAN army began Thursday night, hu-
gust "a. On the same night Rumanian
troops crossed the Austro-Hungarian
frontier. ..u
This appears 20 be an erroneous
rendition Of the official announcement
a. Pumania did not declare war Oh
Austria until August 81.
Russian troops, beginning to cross
,bc Dobrudja, we're welcomed enthu-
rastically by our population.
Austran batteries and monitors are
Gyinv on the towns Of Orsoya, Turn
SEVERN and Giurgevo.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-01
Days Official Reports
on Balkan Operations

Poris, mug. N.--Thc o6ictnt state'
meut isealed Mis evening rcgdrd'ng
operations in Mocedonio reods;
Throughout yesterday there was no nc,
important infantry action on the whoie
front. The cannODadc Is decrca5inK ~
the regions Of Dorian and Lake VS'
trOYO.
SoGa, Au0. U.-Ycotcrdny's on
oaI Bui0ayian statement sdys'
There has been no essential change
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-01
The Rumanian Campaign
Continued from page :

higher there peaks of than S4O feet II the AaS
quite good position they
Carpahans the 1915 when they were ao WIN
break of the Russian advance
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-01
SOFIA ASKS TURK AID
FOR WAR ON RUMANlA

London, Aug. 3l.-The
Wireless Press gave out to-
day a Rome dispatch that
Bulgaria has stipulated she
must have the assistance of
100000 Turks as a condition
for a declaration Of war
against Rumania.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-01
Length of Front Impairs Defence.

But there defending this line First
long Panker Pass Gala to the Iron Gates on the
Danube hundred miles To hold such an extended
considerable and there is no present
suggestion with German help ind such
the OF the front Thus the troops
angle would always be IN danger OF having @
off by the Russian and Ra@an troops
coming across their both sides by the
At the that the Russians Buovna hod tne
crn ends of four passes have actually reached
the crest These Pane Pass mentioned yesterdays news the
Davn Pass through railroad the MIL
bahia We also informed that the
attacking along their sector OF this side Oh
angle the Pass which carries railroad going
from Rumania to Pennsylvania and the Oitoz Pass
We arc conjecture from the first reports that tne MAIN
Rumanian thrust coming from the south side and has ALREADY pe
ated two of the this slde the Predea @
which carries the main BudapestVlenna railroad ana enters
territory kronadt and the ked lowe"
pee which carries and the Hungarian terri
tory lust south of the city of Hermannstadt
Troops at Apex Imperilled.
These making the position OF any troops IN
tho n If the angle exceedingly and this what Berlin must
bovo meant when il said encng movements the AUS
n troos were At the time VIII be recalled .n
Berlin forecast considerable retirement drawing oaeA u e ~
arrv in this region on "prearranged positions
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-01
RUSSIANS MOVE
TO HIT BULGARIA

Continued ftm page
oar;ans have adopted the German
method Of attacking in close lorna
ton.
The Tomahawk., 1916-09-14
Danes May Avoid Elections.

Copenhagen, Denmark, Sept. I'm
the event of the present negotiations
for a coalition cabinet succeeding gen.
eral elections probably will be avoid
ed and the question of the sale of the
Danish West Indias to the United
States will be settled by plebiscite
in Denmark. Conservative Leader FL
linger says he expects the negotiations
will succeed and that should they do
so, Christopher Hage, at present min
lister of finance, would become pre-
mier, with Foreign Minister Scavenius
remaining in his present post.
The Tomahawk., 1916-09-14
AMERICANS ON SHIPS '@'
SUNK BY SUBMARINES
Steamer-Two Among Crew Of
Italian Vessel. !

Washington, Sept. 8. - Sinking of
two vessels in the European war zone
with Americans aboard has been re-
ported TO the State department by
American consular officers.
The State department will investi-
gate both incidents to determine if
American rights have been violated,
A dispatch from Consul McCunn at
Glasgow announced that there were
rs Americans on board the British
steamer Kelvinia when she was sunk
by mine or torpedo September 2,
while bound from Newport News to
Avonmouth and Glasgow.
All the Americans, muleteers, were
rescued and now are in Glasgow.
Consul Hurst at Barcelona, Spain,
reported that two "presumable" Amer
leans, James Andrews and Lon Bruce,
were among the crew OF the Italian
sailing vessel Stella Delmare, which
was sunk by submarine off the Bal.
learic islands on August 20.
The Tomahawk., 1916-09-14
SCHOONER WHICH WENT TO RE-
LIEF OF PARTY IN GREENLAND
RETURNS-CO DE-
ClDES TO STAY.
"CROCKERLAND" FOUND TO
BE NOTHING BUT MIRAGE
Explorers Make Dash of 1870 Miles
Across Polar Ice to Supposed Land
Which Peary, After Returning
From Pole, Said He Thought
He Had Seen.

Battle Harbor, Labrador, Sept. s.
The Grenfell mission schooner George
B. Cluett, which went to the relief OF
the Donald B. Macmillan arctic ex-
petition in July, 1915, has returned
here Only captain H. G. Pickles and
the crew are aboard, Macmillan, DR.. E.
O. Hovey, no led the relief expedi-
ton and the other scientists of the
party, having elected to remain for
q while in the northern part of Green
land.
The Macmillan party wintered
aboard the Cluett i'm Parker Snow
bay, east of Etah, and Captain Pickles
reports that ON July 20, 1915, when
the Cluett left North Star bay, Green
land, about 20 miles north of the ex-
petitions winter quarters, all were in
good health and had an abundance Of
supplies.
Rasmussen Joins Party.
The Macmillan party was joined by
Knud Rasmussen, the Danish explorer,
and it is understood they will return
by way of Denmark.
The winters diet Of salt horse and
bread was varied by supply of birds
and sea pigeons, which were Melted in
large numbers, and whale, sea walrus
and polar bear meat.
Macmillan, the Arctic explorer, left
New York, July 2, 1913, in search
Of "Crockerland," He went north uu'
der the joint auspices Of The Ameri-
can Museum Of National History, the
American Geographical society and
the University Of Illinois.
Naval Officers Make Trip.
The expedition was directed by the
"Crockerland' committee, consisting
of representative Of the three insti-
tutions.
With the explorer went Ensign Fitz-
hugh Green, United States navy en-
gineer and physicist; w. Elmer Elk
blaw, geologist and botanist; Maurice
o. Tanquary, zoologist; DIR. Harrison
J. Hunt, surgeon, and Jerome Lee Al
len, wireless operator.
After establishing their base at
Etah in the spring of 1914, Macmillan
and Green made the dash of 100 miles
across the polar ice to the supposed
Crockerland, which Admiral Peary,
after returning from the North Pole,
said he thought he had seen.
Find No Land, Only Mirage.
Led on by the mirage that appar-
emily had deceived Peary, they con-
tinued until satisfied that there was
no land in the location described by
Peary. They then returned, Ensign
Green having barely escaped death in
an avalanche of snow
The Tomahawk., 1916-09-14
CONGRESS IS READY TO OUT
SESSION BREAKS MANY LEGiSLA.
TIVE RECORDS.
appropriations and Contracts Author
lied During Nine Months Total
Nearly Two Billion Dollars.

Washington, Sept. 8.-Congress has
adjourned. After nine months devot-
10 o'clock. After nine months devot-
ed to legislation, both houses held
protracted sessions last night to wind
up their affairs by approving the con-
ference agreement on the emergency
revenue bill to raise approximately
$20O,0OO,000 desired by the administra-
ton to meet the extraordinary appro-
SSfriestions ff22r ss;st!cnal defense and the
MssSSI:can emergency.
The greatest record smashing was
in appropriations. The congress just
closed authorized approximately ST.
711,3S3, 68264 appropriations for the
next fiscal year, and $226,875,266 in
contracts. Under the latter head were
appropriations of $5O6,O0O in the fur
Their urgency deficiency act; $4,000
in the legislative, executive and judi
cial bill; $2,2S7,950 for rivers and har-
bors; $5,1O7,0OO carried in the civil
sundry act, and $2O5,0S9,416 in the
naval act.
The appropriations and contracts au-
thorized, according to estimates, bring
the grand total up to $1,947, 259, 04S.64.
Big Bills Put Through.
The final legislative measures put
through were the eight-hour bill to
avert the nationwide railroad strike,
and the revenue law, by which the
government is to raise sos, 100000,
and which provides for the tariff COM
mission.
In the revenue measure is also con-
tanned the provision by which the presi'
dent is given power drastically to re-
taliate against the British blacklist
and the British mail seizures. If, In
the presidents opinion, a foreign gov
eminent, engaged in q war in which
the United States is not participating,
is shown to be discriminating against
American shippers, ships of the nation
involved can be seized and the ship
captain imprisoned. Use of mails, in
terstate express companies and cable,
telephone and telegraph lines can be
refused to citizens of governments
which discriminate against Americans
in commercial matters.
The Tomahawk., 1916-09-14
DISCHARGES $1,000 GUARDS
WAR DEPARTMENT RELIEVES IA
REGIMENTS FROM SERVICE.
General Pershing's Forces May BE-
Withdrawn From Mexico TO axe
Their Places.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.-First orders
for the mastering out of oprtlons al
the militia which were taken into the
federal service when the war depart
ment modified forces on the Mexl-
can border, have just been issued.
Fifteen thousand national guards
men, members of organizations re-
Gently ordered from the border to-
their respective state mob1llzatlon
camps, have been ordered mustered'
out of the federal service as soon as
practicable and returned to the nor
NAL status of national guard troops
This was announced by the war de-,
partment.
Students Released.
At the same time orders went out
from the central department army
headquarters at Chicago for the mus
ter;ng out of Battery F, First Mime
sofa Field Artillery, the University of
Minnesota battery.
The guardsmen remaining on the,
border stay there for the present.
The following are the regiments
which will be mustered out under tie
new order: Second and Seventy-first
New York; First and Fourth New Jer-
sey; Fourth Maryland; First and Sec
ond Illinois; First and Third Missouri;
Fifth California; Third Oregon; Sec
ond Washington; First Louisiana.
These are all infantry regiments.
According to one rumor in Wash
ingtcn, the departments order was
issued because of the probability that
General Pershing's forces will be with
drawn from Mexico soon and his men.
will take the places of the $4,000
guardsmen relieved from federal serv
ice. This rumor was not confirmed
from any official source.
The Tomahawk., 1916-09-14
ADMINISTRATION ASSAILED
BY HUGHES IN THE EAST
Adamson Eight-Hour Law Is Called;
"Wage Law Passed in lgnor-
ance of Facts

Portland, Maine, Sept. 8.-Charles
E. Hughes told New England audi
the principle Of reason in legislation
and go down to defeat than to yield;
zone jot or title' of it and become
president of the United States.
Before five crowded audiences in
Massachusetts, New Hampshire and
Maine the nominee assailed the ad-
ministration vigorously for the enact,
ment of the Adamson eight-hour law.
He called 1t mot an eight-hour law but
wage law" and said that it was
passed "confessedly in ignorance Of
the facts
The Tomahawk., 1916-09-14
PRESIDENT SIGNS
EIGHT HOUR BILL
SEVERAL BLASTS FROM WHISTLE
OF A PASSING ENGINE is ONLY
INCIDENT MARKING ACT.
TIE-UP IF UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Brotherhoods Will Remain Inactive 1t
Railroads Take No Action, But
Await the Beginning Of lnvesti-
cation Of Workings Of Plan.

Washington, Sept. 7..I9 m aS43, ssE'
tain of the legality Of the eight -hourr
bill for railroad employees signed last
Sunday in order to avoid the threat
ened railroad strike, President Wilson
Tuesday signed the measure for the
second time. He went through this
Unusual procedure, because there was
fear that the railroads in attacking
the constitutionality Of the law might
make the claim that 1t was not effec-
tive because it was signed on Sunday.
Washington, Sept. 5.-The Adamson
eight-hour day bill exacted from Con-
gress last week by the railroad
brotherhoods as the price of calling
off the nationwide strike ordered for
Labor Day, was signed by President
Wilson in his private car at the Union
station, where he stopped on his way
from Shadow Lawn, N. j., to Hodgen-
vile, KY. Several blasts from the
whistle Of a passing engine was the
only incident marking the President 8
act.
VIII Strike If Law Fails.
How long peace shall reign as a
result of the bill apparently is de-
pendent upon developments in the pro-
posed move to test the constitution
ality of the act Should the railroads
take no action but await the begin
ming of an investigation of the work
ings of the eight-hour day by the spe-
cial commission for which the meas
IRE provides, the brotherhoods will
remain inactive.
The employees leaders declare, how
ever, that should the law be held I'M
constitutional and the railroads at
tempt to restore the 10-hour day on
their lines, strike will follow
promptly.
The Tomahawk., 1916-09-14
RAILROAD STRIKE CALLED OFF
Following Passage Of the Adam
son Measure, 43 to %.

Washington, Sept. 5.-The threat
ened railroad strike has been called
off,
, Instructions resembling the orders to
100000 members Of the four great
railway brotherhoods to quit their
work at 7 a. m, Monday. were wired
from here by the presidents Of the
four organizations to the $40 district
heads scattered over the country
The decision of the brotherhood Of
ficials to call off the strike was reach
cd following the action of the senate
approving, 43 to %, the Adamson eight
hour bill which passed the house Fri
day.
The Tomahawk., 1916-09-14
MENACE ROUMANIAN CAPITAL.
Teutens Hope to InfIet Severe Blow.
on Morale of People by Seiz-
ing City.

London, Sept. IA bold German
stroke, aiming at the early capture
of Bucharest, capital of Roumania, is
revealed in dispatches from Berlin.
The Germans and Bulgars have con-
centrated artillery and men against
the strongly fortified Roumania bridge
head at Tutrakan on the Danube, only
40 miles southeast of Bucharest. The
German war Office has announced the
capture of seven Roumanian works
near Tutrakan, following the occupa.
ton Of advanced positions.
The Tomahawk., 1916-09-14
British Gain at FaIfemont,

London, Sept. 6.-The official state
ment from general headquarters just
issued, reads:
"This morning the enemy made a
counter attack against our newly-won
positions northwest of Moquet farm.
He was easily repulsed. North OF Fal-
femont farm our troops gained fur
Their ground during the afternoon.
Heavy fighting continues on this por-
ton Of our front.
Beyond heavy artillery actions be-
tween the Ancre and the Somlne, there
is nothing to report"