Washington Post, The (Newspaper) - December 2, 1914, Washington, District Of Columbia MAKE THE HAPPY By making your purchase Temperature 60 52 TODAY NO. DECEMBER 2, 1914.-SIXTEEtf TWO GERMAN ARMY RECOVERS FROM CHECK IN RUSSIANS ABREAST OF AUSTRIANS BATTLES REOPENED IN FLANDERS AND NEAR ARRAS VIOLENT FIGHTING ON YSER BATTLE BELGIAN PORTS FORTIFIED MUSCOVITE RIGHT FLANK ATTACKED Inhabitants of Villages Near Firing Line in Flanders Sent Teutons Attempting to Drive It Back on the MOVING TOWARD LOWICZ Changes in Dispositions of German Troops Lead to Belief That New Attempt Will Be Made to Reach French Show Much Activity Near and tieres in Serious Plight From Germans Resume Effort to Cut Off Foe From BIG WAR BOOTY IS CLAIMED Dec. the although the German official re- port there is nothing to the French official statement notes a somewhat lively cannonade in and German activity to the north of This may mean that the Germans have or are about to another attempt to get through to the French Certainly there are some important changes in the dispositions of the German but what they foreshadow is known only to the German general men here take opposing one side believing that j Dec. reports from Russian Poland given out officially in Berlin indicate that the Germans have resumed the execution of their plan to en- compass the Russian right flank and to force it back on the at the same time cutting off the communication with The carrying out of this which began with a Russian de- TEUTONS BREAK THROUGH RUSSIAN TRAP AND REPEL ALL MUSCOVITE ATTACKS Armies in Poland Fighting Under Eyes Of the Czar and the Germans Escape Sweeping Defeat Petrograd Continue to Gain More Decisive Results Against Forces in All of Enemy's Positions Protecting the Carpathian Dec. battle in northern concerning the progress of which there has been so much is now being fought out under the eyes of the German on the one and the Russian emperor on the These two monarchs left for the front so that virtually the heads of all the nations at war are with their The King of England is in the King of as is spending all his time with his while President feat at Lipne and at was of started today for another visit to the ern v Official news from Poland continues to be scanty with both the Germans will rest content with holding their present j Germans for a moment the close of the battle in where they need all the thrown on the defensive Now j headquarters claiming it is impossible to say how the they can while the other looks for an immediate of the battle in northern France and The to Dutch are strongly Zeebrugge and other Belgian ports against a renewal of the attacks by the allied The fighting which has occurred j after a number of at- battle is Of its there can be no the Germans appear to be The when they started for dashed full tilt moving forward in the direction t of Russian troops and forced their way so far in that the closed on This was taken in Petrograd to mean that some of the German divisions had been cut off and that of Offensive Movement i i- f j I German movements In this around Ypres was clue to the allies pushing their lines j haye not been wiLU ln the I their surrender or annihilation was Inhabitants Sent Away ft'S WAR WITH JAPAN v h houses fir r i today t orri a T of J bo day ami j s arc George B. Says one roe Doctrine Will Bring It. last few and German tary observers must tie taken as a highly favorable as in their opinion a German repulse of the sian advances probably has been lawed by a general offensive movement of the Germans toward I The following official announcement j was given out in Berlin THE WINE f i h LI k ir from e of- t GERMANY ALSO PROBABLE FOE t us It if Iho in th Armentieres in Senous i i of that has beer Former Mayor of New Now Princeton Declares United States Must Choose Between Fighting for Doctrine or Abandoning Against for I around of j The about that j has i of that the to hf Indoors 1 l V v l f r i- r i i t T 1 cf thr Rheims Suffers Enormous In an nf the hi of in progress in- to The Washington J Dec. statements to the effect that in the not far distant future the United States v would have to choose between fighting a V for the Monroe doctrine or abandoning T life of i u and predicting trouble for the United For the last j States with the winner of the present were made by George B. former mayor of New York and now professor of economic history in in an address here tonight before the International Policy the deserted us face the conditions as they v said Mr. Under any circumstances we must not believe that universal peace will The tors will continue to make a trial for a world and Germany and Japan that their natural growth must take them beyond the If many wins she will not be satisfied with North German ill not restrain her from establishing is no news to hand from the western arena of the In East Prussia and in southern Poland it was generally quiet In northern south of the our war CONTINUED ON THinn BABY SCARES and w 1 th thf the r 1 been r n and i dept ro to IP oss duo to d at 1 l h irh an vie fii ct u of i francs German Assault in Flanders i; was Issued bv t it hi Jilt s J i IreT h's fo tlv betw er and the park i f II the A r 11 n i in thr 'un the is tn Considerable Activity Near the issued bi the war c is a thr u.s coaling spheres of in South Japan Needs the allies win the same thing ill happen Japan needs territory She has seized the Marshall add says she will turn them over to but ahe has not done so. The door is closed to and they are waiting to seize w ho It almost that at some not far distant date be confronted with the against of either abandoning the Monroe r a. red t' I'M i south of the j doctrine or righting to maintain We have made of it a. national Virginia 2 Years Drives Intruder From Special to The 111., Dec. aged 2 interviewed a burglar in her father's home at 605 Casg street last and talked the Intruder into Virginia's father and mother were in another part of the when the mite of a girl ventured Into a darkened bedroom and saw a man she you 'fraid to stay In the dark all asked The man silent and Virginia took another step into the In the she 'fraid A grunt came from the figure when Virginia asked Is a was the and Virginia hurried out of the room to tell Mr. Russell reached the room just in time to see the second foot going through a To the police who were summoned ginia described the intruder as a man whp and looked WILL JOIN Premier Says Only Matter Still Under Discussion Is Precise Calilo to The Washington Dec. Morning Post prints the following telegram sent Take former premier of to a personal friend Constitutional Some days ago I gave a tele- gram explaining my views to the of I imagine the telegram was correctly a of national to be I will say now that if we abandon it we must concede that we are not strong enough to tain that we are only a second-class at the mercy of all the ins bullies of the If we fight for it in our present condition of there can be but one out- A triumphant and victorious many would have little to fear from and while we might In the end be able to check Japan by for her financial resources arc ON that Roumania will join the triple en- The only matter still under dis- cussion is the precise date of JEAK IS Former Swiss Minister to United States Passes Away in via Dec. 1. Baptlste who was ister of Switzerland to the United States In 1902, died yesterday at Jn near German Flanks Still for French Report a Huge Crop of GERMANS DO LITTLE DAMAGE Old People Harvest the While j Nearby the Soldiers That Quarters Have Been as Delicate as That of 1904, but It Has More their very lives and in the knowledge a great defeat would end the j man offensive and compel them to fall back on their own the troops succeeded in breaking through the Kussian lines at one and at another in holding their against all the Russian Their flanks are I still being harassed by the but seemingly the Russians are not now in a j position to Kalu the sweeping victory they Special to The Washington Dec. 1. The pagne of despite the ravages of Is estimated at quarts of the sparkling this according to advices received by a wine house in this city The which was aent by a business correspondent in the wine dis- of August began there was an excellent promise of a successful grape the vines having escaped frost in the and having weather in the Damage Done by damage was done during the advance of the German but er 13, when Rheims was re- occupied by the nearly the whole The with the desperate fighting that has been going on for a must necessarily he very heavy on both Against the forces Jn the south the Russians continue to gain more decisive They are now in possession of all the Austrian positions protecting the Carpathian passes and are said to have arrived abreast of while their captures for three weeks ber Teutons Are Dec. from the front are that reinforcements sent for the army of Gen. near Lodz are taking up positions along the where the German resistance seems to have been least The apparent purpose of this move is to had fine I der the Russian enveloping movement until the main German column from the line which runs from Strykow through to Semiofficial reports from cate that the Russian advance along the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains hag area of the vineyards was cleared of the The result was that ON EIGHTH the reached a point due south of thus surrounding the city from the northeast and ON THIRD CoL Roosevelt Holds U. S. Guilty Of Atrocious Crimes in Mexico COL. THEODORE in the most vigorous and making article he has written since he retired from the charges the United States government with a re- for the reign of anarchy and crime in His re- cital of the orgies in the republic is a record of and sacrilege practically without a parallel In modern and what is more Col. Roosevelt has secured the mentary evidence to back up his Both factions of the revolutionists are indicted in this astonishing and back of it all the distinguished author contends the government of the United States is and guiltily His arguments go and will be the all-absorbing topic of dis- cussion when his article is It will appear here exclusively in The Washington Post next You cannot afford to miss it. NEEDS MORE TRADE U. Steel Co. Discusses Nation's Plight HAS VESSELS IN PLENTY Many Return From South America Without He Methods of Business Extension ed by the Head of America's Greatest Manufacturing Concern Include Loans to Not Only for the but to Give the Countries Facilities With Which to Special Cable to The Washington New Dec. of trade tn those products which the country ably can expect to sell In competitive oversea markets during times of peace or organization of selling extension of financial and credit operations are some of the this country must take Into con- sideration for the development of its com- merce with neutral and belligerent according to James A. ident of the United States Steel who gave a special interview on the subject today to The Washington Mr. Farrell has spent his life In the steel and his of the world business Is from the tical He is a believer in the construction of merchant ships in this jn a greater merchant and as if in proof of this the United States Steel Corporation was the first to transfer Us vessels to American registry after the passage of the shipping But Mr. Farrell thinks that the trade must be developed for the Convinced by the week nf the European war did more to convince the American people that foreign trade is necessary to our domestic prosperity than len years of academic he ple have learned that R larger outlet is necessary for their and that grain and cotton could be affected In a dislocation of the world's hough little thought hag been given nationally to the vital importance to the country as a whole of a greater diversification of exports and wider the current economic fallacies is that with the present elimination of several of the manufacturing countries of Europe as sources of supply the neutral consuming markets of the world must look to the United States for their re- and merchants have been exhorted to expand their trade in markets supposedly vacated by the warring Need of Commodity statements have been made which indicate a lack of knowledge of the conduct of the world's and it does not appear to he recognized that the changed as a result of the shock to the financial and credit systems of the involve more than a casual survey of inter- trade relations of all Bankers learned that credit is an inter national and whether engaged in farming or are conscious now of the that it requires an exchange of com- between countries to maintain equilibrium of gold is apparent that even a neutral cannot materially profit when a world-wide contraction exists of the mechanism of credit and the cost of elgn Problems Faced at problems at present confronting the export and trade of the United States are due largely to the in- ability of to finance transactions on a due to straightened financial conditions in many export particularly is the case with some of the larger South tries whose in order to avoid general declared resulting in decreased buying which can be stimulated only by the establishment of credits from the of their exported hostilities forced the merchant fleets to remain within the harbors of the not only was our oversea trade abruptly but the resultant shock to and Pacific seaports disrupted the railroads and dislocated domestic commerce as well as clogging the arteries of trans- portation and Manufacturers who export a part of their product were compelled to curtail Destination of Vital workman who performs his task with no thought of whether his work was being sold in Indiana or found suddenly that its destination was of vital engaged in what they considered purely domestic and who had not been indifferent long to the necessity fostering American foreign were in many Instances de- prived of the foreign materials essential to fabrication of their seeking customary loans to move their encountered a mono- stringency resulting from demands for to satisfy maturing American ON CZAR AND KAISER BOTH AT FRONT Dec. Nicholas left Petrograd this morning for the theater of Dec. official an- Is made that the German emperor on Monday the troops In their tions at and East Dec. William reached East Prussia He con- on the way to the traveling by motor Fears President's on Military WHITE HOUSE CALLS VAIN Massachusetts Han Fails to Ar- range Talk With Expresses Surprise at View That Airing Question of Armament Might ify U. S. as Referee When Big War Is Secretary Issues Letter Anent Subject Written by His Chief Last Representative Augustus of who is urging a con- gressional investigation of the pre- of the United States for yesterday said he is that the President intends to the cold hand of on the whole Mr. Gardner's made on a visit to the White immediately stirred up the officials of the tration to such a degree that the tary to the President made public a ter from the President to Mr. Gardner to show that the President had given no such The President's while never officially is said by those who are in close touch with the affairs of the administration to be radically opposed to such an OK FIFTH UNITE IN U. DEFENSE Security League Will Work for Larger Army and FAVOR GARDNER RESOLUTION Conditions of International Make It Unsafe to Trust to Emergency Declares ization Formed in Country-Wide ZAPATA BREAKS WITH VILLA Rejects Peace Overtures and Battle FIGHT IN CAPITAL SUBURBS Southern Rebel Chief Had the Northern Leader HIS TROOPS DRIVEN BACK Gen. After Reaching Outskirts of Mexico City With 25.OOO Is Said to Have Met With Repulse When His Forces Attempt to Advance Into Department Hears That Zapata Is Keeping Order and fording Full Protection to Villa Promises to Punish Violence Against Life or New National curity a new organization work causing a congressional investigation Into the condition nf the and coast defences of States as the first step in a posed country-wide campaign tn insure the enactment of national and State for maintaining tional was herp at a meeting of of New Urge President to Act. Resolutions were passed asking dent Wilson tn act upon sentative resolution an Investigation into thf armament of the States and authorising the pointment by Chairman S. Stan wood of a of tn organize branches of the now throughout the The new league was the resolutions because the Hanged conditions of international relations it not be wisp in continue to intrust national defenses to I emergency Pr William T. Hornaday proposed that a be presented to Congress at its first day's session providing for the recruiting and training of men as Gardner Asks A telegram from Representative A P. Gardner was It in part. all hope that your committee will send a representative to the ing before the committee on rules on House joint resolution 37a, which vides for a commission to investigate the question of the adequacy of our army and only chance is to keep thie question free of party and we all hope that you will cooperate with us io that St. 1-3-3. Turkey 5-S p. Adv. Special to The New Dec. whose forces hold ico has rejected all over- tures made by Gen. Villa for a joint possession of the capital and his troops were fighting day in the streets of Mexico City according to the El Paso correspondent of the New York Private advices received there say Villa has made his quarters at San a suburb of the not far from Chapultepec it is is held Zapata Villa Troops Hurled Villa today sent men toward Mexico 1ml they were driven bark bj Zapata the report and a battle was fought in the outskirts the The dispatches declare that Zapata is defying and has commenced the formation of an pendent with himself as and with Mexico City as his declaring that as Carranza has deserted the and Villa is un- able to take and protect he feels that it in his duty to protect 1he people the foreign dispatches to Juarez said that Villa was waiting in a suburb of Mexico for the of dent and that he and rez would enter One dispatch received here from a source said Zapal t troops had and were taking him to Mexico City prison when Villa's friends induced to order the northern leader's Villa Enters o Nov. 30, via Kl TPT I Villa entered the capital today at the hrad of about troops He during the in the rp he remained during evening receiving delegations and foreign ronsu s not enter the of the until tho arrival of President Jut Villa thr following ment mission js to order in o and not to take personal re- on one 1 promise that order will bp at once I am as inp subordinate of Provisional President and the convention president if now VIP In and 1 am as Held commander of armies All and foreign erty hr Waiting on 1 m H reports ho that the Vi 11 l a supporting thA provision government of a 1) 1 the recent tional convention at A es was maintaining order in Mexico City and restoring normal conditions there were made at the State Two from American Con- the Brazilian Minister at Mexico which were read to President anil his cabinet by were given out in paraphrase last night They show while Zapata has been in Mexico City he has declined to go to the national keeping his ters in the suburbs tion from the Mexican capital is to the effect that Viila similarly has ar- in the outskirts of the and that both chiefs await the arrival of Provisional President Violence Against The official dispatches gave a tnu more hopeful and optimistic view conditions than the American CONTINUED ON MMH 1
