Washington Post, The (Newspaper) - August 2, 1915, Washington, District Of Columbia READ THE OFFERINGS Of Used Automobiles for Sale In Today's not so today and gentle shifting Temperature 97; 74. NO. AUGUST 2, 1915.-TWELVE TWO GERMAN ARMIES TAKE CUTTING RUSSIAN RETREAT FROM WARSAW SOUTHEAST Von Mackensen's Troops Pursuing the Enemy Along the Bug Teuton Lines Closing Rapidly Around the covite Troops Evacuating the Polish Petrograd Reports Von ward the Railway Halted and Grand Duke Nicholas May Re-Form Russian Lines at Rearguard Actions Delay Von Hindenburg on the Aug 1 anniversary of the outbreak of the war passed without the Germans occupying which was understood to be part of their news of this climax to the offensive in the which was begun in the early days of is hourly for what little information is allowed to leak through is to the effect that the Russians for several days have been withdrawing to the Brest leaving small forces to actions so that the main armies might make good their retreat Russians Halt Von These actions have developed at many places into fairly large as the whose steadiness has been phenomenal in the face of are offering stubborn resistance to the German advances and de- livering powerful counter attacks For they have prevented Field Marshal von Hindenburg Trom rowing more of his troops across the repulsed German attacks to the northwest of and driven back to the river some of the in- vading troops who crossed the Vistula to the south of In the southeast Field Marshal von Mackensen continues his victorious He has swept aside the resistance of the Russians and forced them to re- treat along both banks of the Through in The Germans already passed through in pursuit Thus on this front the retirement of the Warsaw armies Is seriously threatened LOSS GREAT AT LUBLIN During the month o lln captured more than 95000 Russians between the River and the Baltic alone The sians according to have stopped Gen on advance in Kovno province the grad Railway If Grand Duke Nicholas Is to hold the his retirement from Warsaw It Is absolutely that von offensive be halted Should on Buelow reach the railway he would seriously Interfere with the ons not vet certain whether the can make good their retirement from C the Germans are doing their best to It and e in strong reinforcements t hasten their encircling Hope to Crush Entire Army The appearance of fresh troops also that the staff will not be satisfied ith the capture of the city or the destruction of part of the army should this be accomplished will attack the Brest lino and endeavor finally to crush the entire Russian Meanwhile the Germans who appear to have an inexhaustible supply of are floating desperately to re- tain evers posit Ian which tney hold along the western front May Quit They e recaptured part of the trenches which they lost to the British near and are making an effort to regain what they lost to the French In the Muenster region of Alsace An unconfirmed report comes from Rome tonight that the are for the evacuation of and have already removed the ery of the munitions factories FOSS TO ENTER G. O. P. RACE FOR GOVERNOR of Men Killed or Swiss MACKENSEN'S STIFFEE Former Bay State Executive Favors National Boston Vug 1 Gov Eugene N announced formally today his Intention of seeking the Republican nomination for governor in the ries next fall Mr Foss says that the Republican party demands progressive leadership by a business man and he declares that as the exponent of the McKinley policy of tariff regulation he himself has been the leader of the true Republican In Massachusetts ing that he was three elected on the Democratic ticket The letter criticises former man Samuel McCall and Lieut Gov who are candidates for the Republican for their re- to stand for national prohibition Velson B Clark of an- today his candidacy for the Progressive nomination for saying that he would stand larly for the principles of the initiative and n Advance Lost in Terrific sians Making Desperate Resistance aa They Dispatches to Geneva Pierce Austrian Aug 1 Tribune prints the following dispatch from its InnsbrucK correspondent The capture of Lublin cost Gen 70.000 men in wounded and prisoners Four miles north of the Russians are fighting 1> disputing every foot of ground while covering their Send 100 Trains of an advance of seven miles seven army corps Field Marshal von Mackensen lost army massed from Lowicz to has begun an advance upon Ivangorod and Novo the evacuation of which was commenced by the Russians Friday ing to the Germans i The Germans have dispatched more than 100 trainloads of ammunition from Radon and Lodz toward Warsaw since July 23 Russians who attacked south of Przasnysz killed wounded 8.000 and took prisoner of the Eighth German army General Italian The Tribune's Laibach ent says general Italian offensive was be- gun yesterday on the and Carnia forcing the Austrians to evacuate some of their strongest positions Dalmatian regiments which attacked lost 60 per cent of their effectives The Italians have pierced the ond Austrian line on the Carso taking several miles of MORGAN SEES PEACE IS YEAR Financier Predicts End of According to Friend in Special fable to The Washington Aug 1 New who is a personal friend of J P ar- riving today on the steamship New he had discussed the war with Morgan the day before and that the financier said he was con- that twelve months hence would see the end of the 12 DROWNED ON Aug Renter dispatch from Copenhagen says that fishermen have returned from Lubeck are authority for the statement that a new German submarine while on a triel trip between Kiel and was totally wrecked some days Twelve of the crew were According to the CRY OF FIRE CAUSES PANIC ON STEAMER V Women and Children Hurt on Grand Sitter Ship of the Gen. New Aug. steamer Grand from Rockaway for New put in at Coney Island where several hundred gers left the vessel following a panic which started with a false cry of Before the succeeded In the passengers that there was no fire aboard many women and children had been knocked down and slightly injured In a mad rush for life ers and the The Grand Republic Is the sister ship of the General which burned with a loss of nearly a sand lives several years BEAD ON THE Three Americans and Three Englishmen Official Statement Aug 3 official list of the dead of the British steamer shelled by counts for six Americans and three Food Most Go Forward at All Costs to Mexico CARRANZA TO SEND TRAINS Is Making Ready to Ship Tons of Staples From Vera Officials in Washington Believe American Course in Near Future Depends Much on Success of in Getting Supplies at Capital Must Be It Is Pointed Villa's Hen May Block Announcement of the of Mexico City by Gen. army was followed yesterday by a statement from Gen. Carranza's headquarters at Vera Cruz that Immediate efforts would be made to send foodstuffs by rail to the starving people ot The State Department had no direct advices as to the situation there Heavily guarded it was re- are prepared to leave Vera Cruz with provisions to supplement food being taken Into the city army of occupation Washington are hopeful that Gen Gonzales has left the line so well patrolled that the trains will get through with slight de- lay Determined to Relieve Reopening of the railroad line will furnish an Important test for the of military operations of Carranza's forces to protect means of transportation from the east coast to the officials here Much they upon the success of this undertaking because the United States government is determined to re- lieve the famine in Mexico City if forces cannot do It. Information of Carranza's plans came to his Wasington agency In a message from Jesus Carranza minister of foreign who announced also that the railroad between Queretaro and connecting zales with Gen. would be Message From The message addition to the supplies which Gen. Pablo Gonzales will carry with him Into the City Mexico at the present the ist government has arranged for the sending In of additional supplies to the amount of tons of which include lard and dried supplies are supplemental to the large quantities of relief materials which have been heretofore detained en route by reason of the necessitous military operations Incident to the re- gaining and preservation of control of railway connection from the coast to the The public services for the food distribution will be at once re- opened Civil Government administration has been stalled at Queretaro and civil employes of the constitutionalist government are being moved from Queretaro to calientes and to points intervening be- tween that Important center and This reestablishment of com- reunites the armies of gon and Gonzales by telegraphic and railway Reports reaching here regarding the present situation in Mexico City say that an advance guard of army has taken possession of the entering without meeting and that Gen. Gonzales himself arrives Prospect of Permanent Since the officially confirmed in State Department dis- that Gen. Gonzales drove la's flying under Gen. from little has been heard of this southern division of Villa's Whether it may again menace Mexico City and obstruct the program upon which Carranza Is to base an appeal for recognition by the United Is a matter of considerable speculation I Marines to Guard Legation From Which Was LANSING APPROVES ACTION No Diplomatic Complications Feared by Secretary of Admiral Caperton Instructed to Afford Every Facility for Hen From French Cruiser Relieve Burden Upon United States Force to Remain Until Permanent Peace Is French marines have been landed at Port au where last week's revolution overturned the government and necessitated the landing of an ex- force from the United States cruiser to restore order The landing of the French was with the consent of the United States It was stated last a detachment from the cruiser Descartes having been sent to the French from which President laume was taken by a mob and Minister Asks for A request for a guard of French rines was presented by the French Minister at Port au Prince and cabled to Washington by Rear Admiral in command of the American ex- force The message said the French Minister had expressed an urgent desire that his legation be ed by French inasmuch as the Descartes had arrived at Port au Prince The Minister thought also that the French guard would be able to lighten the burden on Admiral 400 men to some extent Lansing Approves Upon receipt of Admiral Secretary Daniels conferred with Secretary of State Lansing Mr. Lansing could see no objection to the landing of a small detachment from the Descartes for the special purpose of guarding the French No com- would arise from suchi action in tbe Secretary's and Admiral Caperton Instructed to afford the French Minister ill facilities for the French Port An Prince Port au Prince was reported quiet The battleship with 500 Is now en route to the Island and will be lowed by the hospital ship Solace and the navy transport Hancock Other ments may be sent if there are any more attacks upon the city by such as that in which two American bluejackets were killed The expeditionary force Is expected to remain in Haiti until lasting peace is restored TWO 60 OVER TO VILU Obregon and Iturbe Said to Have Abandoned ANGELES TO LEAD REVOLT Arrives at Nogales and Confers With Sonora Officials and Gov. Then Announces Change of Allegiance of Mexican as Next President by Officials and 1 Gen. Felipe until recently Francisco Villa's chief lieutenant in the arrived here today and was claimed a hero Dy the population and garrison officials of the staff of Gov. Jose Villa leader in greeted him as the next dent of Gen. Angeles held a conference with Gen. governor of Calles Will Attack Gen commanding a Carranza force advancing on warned today to seek as he said he intended to destroy the town within a few Gen Angeles arrived this In Ariz was met at the in- boundary line by Gov. Jose Maytorena and the latter's entire civil and and escorted between lines of soldiers to the governor's four blocks Said to Have Quit American secret service men met the train upon which Gen. Angeles rode and saw him across the According to Maytorena An- geles will lead a revolution with Villa as assisted by Gens. Obregon and both of whom are reported either to have abandoned ranza or to be ready to do so. ILL. Has Been in Dangerous Condition Since Special to The Aug. 1. Gen Benjamin F. who a paralytic stroke a fortnight was In a dangerous con- dition tonight at his Gen. who Is in his eighty-sixth baa not Improved his f Dr. E. P. Going Into 1916 Fight to Says PARTY VIRILE IN THE WEST National Progressive Chairman Re- Fusion Great Convention Battles Next Year Will Be Over Not He That Re- Will Fight for Standpatism and for Unequivocal Indorsement of Taft Mount Aug 1 tor of chairman of the Progressive national made the following statement today have Just completed a three months personal canvass of the tion with the Progressives In the tral West and on the Pacific and after making it I am ready to say that we Progressives are Ing into the 1916 fight as a and to a meeting of tive Progressives held this month In New Tork city reported the same con- ditions in the East that I have found In the and they are lining up for the next This also is the ment of the Progressive national com- We will hold our national con- vention early and nominate a ticket Fight to Be Over 'The great convention battles of 1916 will not be over but will be over The storm will not in the committee on but in the committee on The Bourbon Republican will not only insist on a standpat but will fight for an unstinted and unequivocal Indorsement of the ad- ministration of William H. in- the tariff Democratic likewise will point with pride to the equally lamentable tariff and against a Bryan insurrection of the magnitude cancel the one- term presidential pledge and other Bryan uid the sives will reiterate and reemphasize Chicago platform of 1912 That platform remains the most nearly fect utterance of the principles of the Abraham Lincoln of modern times Has Adherents in its protest against the in- roads of fattening on an era of gross and in Its cal program of concrete economic the Progressive platform has be- come to hundreds of thousands of Americans the ark of the and there not a township anywhere without its group of Gittites devoted wholly and solely to its Progressives have the right plan for the tariff and other economic including the trust Says Democrats Have 'The Democrat leadership after two and a half years of has signally failed in solving the nation's economic questions Its tariff slammed gether under the old logrolling is utterly unproductive of any of the results previously claimed for Its trust legislation its attempts at development American ocean-going craft have fizzled That this Is the judgment of the voter is amply evidenced by the sentiment that has de- at the polls at virtually every election in the last two years At many of these elections the voters cast a Republican ballot because he believed that the Republican leadership had learned its lesson and would hereafter take the progressive G. 0. P. More now the voters know for a tainty that when the Republican has been restored to it has shown not as 15 notably by the actions of the tures in New Ohio and Hand m hand with the proposition to encompass cial and industrial goes the necessity of solving the great economic problems of the not on the basis of political of which practice both the old parties are in- famously but on the basis of service to society Eager to Continue I found sives who made the fight 1912 with that idea Eager now to continue the Wherever they have had a chance to make good they have done so spectacle of Republican tion In New Tork and In con- trast to Progressive achievement in California under Gov. Is a dramatic portrayal of the need of the new strong patriotic party of public the Progressive party will go on with its out and flat-footed FRESH TROOPS FACE RUSSIANS Aug Russian war statement says confirm the first appearance on our front of the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-eighth divisions of German in- fantry which participated In battle on Thursday They had just arrived from the western 1 Japanese Taking Trade Away Prom This Nation in FOOTHOLD IN TEXTILE FIELD European Withdrawal of Ships Proves Great Island Empire Takes Advantage of Con- ditions and Invades Field Formerly Occupied by Great Britain and Off Trade With South China by Ordering Ship Lines to cel Hongkong Freight New Aug 1 Washington dispatch to the New Tork World says Japanese competition is driving American cotton goods out of China of cotton cloth from the United States to In the eight months ended In 1916, was only valued at 397, as against valued at in the corresponding period of the preceding year According to the Chinese maritime customs aa forwarded from Shanghai by United States Commercial Agent R M Japan exported to China in 1914 an Increase of bolts of gray sheeting and drills No S. Cotton These same customs returns show that not a single bolt of American ton drills was imported Into Shanghai in the first five months of 1915, and the Importations of fell from bolts to The Japanese have got a foothold In the textile field chiefly by Imitating the narrow gray and colored cotton cloths woven on hand looms in China Gets Strong The war has enabled Japan not only to extend her advantage over can trade in the Far but also to get a foothold In Oriental markets formerly controlled by Great Britain and Germany There are two reasons for having sent no army has an abundance of men home to keep her mines and factories the other nations have drawn most of their own ships from the Far East for war ing the seas of the Orient almost en- tirely to Japanese vessels of commerce The Japanese government in May last almost entirely cat off South China's foreign trade by ordering the Osaka Kaisha and all other Japanese subsidized steamship lines to cancel all freight engagements from Hongkong for June and July sailings and to offer all space for such Will Grant Big The Japanese government proposes to give more than m subsidies to native shipping in four years 1916-1920 to stimulate the merchant marine to the utmost growth Of this 400 000 is allotted to nese lines in North American traffic It Is reported that the two largest ese shipping lines are to combine Japanese mines have supplied for several years more than 60 per cent of the coal imported to the very center of Great Britain's cial influence In the Far East and the financial center of the Orient The anese are pushing trade vigorously at taking advantage of the fact that every German firm has been closed up by the British authorities and put In liquidation 6 CRUISER DESTROYERS Railway and Other Employers Begin missal of Unmarried Special to The Post Aug 1 king and country need This in the weekly pay envelopes of many of Its Is the way the Canadian Pacific Railway has taken to notify unmarried men in service that they must enlist or quit their jobs It is understood that many more notes are coming Reports have it that the government has something similar under tion for unmarried employes in various overmanned departments Recruiting during the past month especially in eastern has not been all that could be so many large employers of Including are considering dismissing un- married men and replacing them with married men Police Say Inscription on Coffin Libels Plans Are Approved for Craft Authorized by EMBODY NEW WAB LESSONS Navy Department Says Information From Abroad Was Closely Scrutinized Before Designs Were to Include Antiaircraft Torpedo Tubes for Each for six big cruiser authorized by the last have been approved They will be the first vessels the design of will have been Influenced by the war in and the department's statement says that naval information from abroad scrutinized by the con- before the plans were drawn of 30 The vessels will have a maximum sustained sea speed of 30 they will displace measure 310 feet over have a width of feet 7 inches and a mean draft of 8 feet Provision has been made in the de- sign to and pitching at making the boats more com- for their crews Armed With 4-inch Bach destroyer will four triple torpedo a main battery of four 4-lnch those in the waist ed high enough to increase their in rough and two 1-pounder antiaircraft Bids for construction will be opened October 6. INDEX TO Capture Food to U. S French Land in U. Driven Out of Moose Plans Says Duma Meets to Discuss Subdues New Tork Riot Not In 1916 Villa Drives Out Liner St Louis Safe in Port. and British Notes Kaiser's Plans for the Germany's Gold Supply B of Suffrage Cause Stirs Letter on Current Topics Events Bonzano in Seattle Labor Urges Peace Move FORCE CANADIANS TO REMOVE BECKER PLATE WIFE BUT CONSENTS Accusing Silver Scroll Is How in the Vault at at St. Tell Woman That the Funeral Cannot Be Held in the Special to The Washington Post New Aug 1 that Mrs Charles Becker would have an in- scription put upon her husband s fin accusing Gov Whitman of Francis district attorney of the today took summary tion and caused the silver plate to be removed immediately Inspector Joseph A head of the detective bureau at police headquarters and acting cap- and Rev J of the Fifth district in the to the er home late in the afternoon told Mrs Becker the inscription was a criminal libel upon the and after slight demurrer from Mrs Inspector Faurot himself removed the plate Incident How The accusing silver scroll now lies in a vault at police and it is believed that the incident is District Attorney Martin explained his attitude in the matter by saying while he had full sympathy for Mrs. he could not permit the governor of the State to be criminally libeled In such a manner The removal of the startling plate came as the result of pressure upon the Becker not only from the lic prosecutor and the but from the clergy of the church of St las of Urge As soon as the priests learned today that the accusing plate was upon the coffin they went to the Becker family and said but that the casket would not be permitted to come Into the church with such an in- scription upon it Up to late tonight the priests had come to no definite conclusion whether there would be a high or a low but at the district attorney's home it was said that the requiem could be held in all propriety Mrs. Becker Withdrew All Mrs Becker's connection with the banking affairs of her who while receiving a salary of 50 a month as a police deposited about in various banks was fully disclosed during District At- investigations prior to Becker's trial Under subpoenas officers of a score of banking insti were compelled to take the ords of Becker's accounts to the dis- attorney Charles Becker and his Helen L. were the names in which practically all of these counts stood Becker was indicted and arrested on the night of July 29, 1912. Mrs Becker on July 31 drew from several banks the total amount of their joint nearly all of running into the thousands of had been ed within c 's It was a at the time that had shrewdly forestalled revelation of his wealth event of his death or money in his wife's and his che was in position to It any time his safety or their Joint interest should make it Inadvisable or ble for him to do so. IS IN TO ME WAR NEEDS Deputies Cheer the Parties Bury POLES TO GET AUTONOMY Sinking of Lusitania Denounced by Foreign Minister YIELD FOR Brilliant Assemblage Attends at grad and Throngs in Galleries Join of the Members In- Work for Betterment of the Army Rather Than Recriminations Over of America and Other Neutrals Discussed in Ad- dress of the Minister Aug 1 The first sitting of the which opened holds out promise of work with the object of promoting the duction of military supplies and meeting the military rather than recriminations or effort to discover those sible for the failure to realize the earlier hopes The temper of the deputies was party differences were dropped There wai no gloom or fictitious Applause Marks the The speeches of the president of the M. and the ministers were applauded from the right ana the The Polish the the the Ambassadors and Gen. tha commander tn the were cheered heartily The outstanding feature of the session was the declaration made in the name of the emperor by the M that the Poles shall receive autonomy An- that amnesty had been granted Vladimir the who returned here from Paris for hospital but immediately was well re- Brilliant Assemblage Present London Aug 1 A dispatch to ter s Telegram Company from grad s duma was opened today by Im- ukase in the presence of a liant including the cabinet ministers and the members of the corps Michael president of the in convening the said the more terrible the war became the more sia was imbued by the firm and un- shakable determination to bring It to a- successful issue said M tates complete unity of all classes and the development of the productive re- sources of the empire M Rodzianko asked the members of the chamber to make suggestions to the government as to how this could be effected Cheers During his address he greeted the diplomatic representatives of the triple entente who were cheered by the members of the chamber and by the public in the galleries The demonstration reached its climax when in the name of the entire sian people M Rodzianko thanked new the brave Italian nation He then spoke of Polish who were the WsJ to receive the blows of the abominable enemy The said M Rodzianko in sets up a brilliant example on how to fulfill our duty to the country It is now our duty to work day night to supply this army with everything which it needs but to do that it is necessary to make We will fight until the complete rum of the enemy is accomplished Minister Sergius Sazonoff the foreign who followed M Rodzianko after reiterating that all the evidence ed that neither Russia nor her allies were responsible for the war gave a resume of the political situation But he warned the members that it was difficult to touch upon problems are still un few M in international relations since his last to the duma Then combined the separate states bad not been well but now of each state be- ing employed to the best advantage in striving for a common
