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5 THE WEATHER j 'i ADVERTISING. The man trko does nt adverttM eanae. somebody said It did not pay. hould not believe tho wortd. Iw roimd Generally, fair Monday- and Tuesday. becauae the aaclenta aald t vraa flat. VOL. XCVI XO. 126. WILMINGTON, N.-'O, ;MODAY MOKNIKG. JULY 26, 1915 WHOLE NUMBER 39,272 11 EArZl7? REMAiI T!L SUBMIT PROPOSALS RED GROSS . - ... 1 i ' I ii . i . ... - - i I m Tnuiii 17 mi in the River Outside Ship's Hull ' ' ' f 7 " " " 1,072 HAVE REPORTED Yesterday a GJoomy Day for Chicago, and Quiet Pre vailed. , Church Attendance Larger Titan (a. Mann 11HU1 mvrm &aMAjr tUlUMlJfS. Chicago, July 25. Bodies of 901 per sons drowned when the steamship East land capsized at'its wharf in-the Chi cago iver had been recovered tonight after 40 hours ot searching: by. divers. The total dead remained at approxi mately one thousand, according to esti mate by Coronor Hoffman, whose-re ports indicated that possibly 100 bodies were held in the mudof the river by the steamer s superstructure. While only 1,002 of the 3,408 passengers of the was thought that above 475 survivors including the crew of 72, had failed to report. About three score ' bodies were re covered from the wreck before dark to night, but after that divers' discovered one corpse .before they quit work . for the night. ' There was much confusion in the totalling of bodies recovered owing to duplications . and removals. As a result, all sorts of estimates were scattered - about the city with guesses from 1,300 to 2,300, but officers in charge of clearing the wreek" have been unable to tabulate more than-901 bodies listed tonight. The borgue wasvcleared of all but a- score of corpses, all other vic tims having been identified. - Investigations to determine respon bilUy for .the calamity will be -undertpartme'nf Was active. That evidence of way tomorrow in a dozen quarters. ;City arid -ijounty " pfficrs "wrel unanimous in declaring that some blame rested; with federal inspectors, alleging they ; per mitted the steamer to operate whil un safe. - " - i ' ': IMvern Still nt -"Work :,-:'V;. The Eastland lies on her side in the river with divers v stills floundering through her ghastly interior- and under her in a death! search while Chicago, appaled, is just beginning to realize the real significance of one of the greatest of marine disasters. While the griey inp thousands who lost dear - ones, walked through the morgue in,the-sec-onrl regiment armory gazing into the faces of the dead, half in hope, half in despair, Chicago citizens ,and city, state and federal officials turned their atten tion to Investigations that must bring forth some explanation : of the catas- troiihft and th" work of "nrovldi-nor re lief for those left destitute. While no families were made, wholly dependent by the disaster, it was sa'd that many victims, had ' been working only half time or less in receut months. Several ; men who made this report in asking for aid, were asked why they started on the excursion whlia in poor financial circumstances. They replied that an organization , of em ployees gave the picnic and that ex perience had taught them it was 'best f.o buy tickets, if Jhey desired prefer ment for work. They said the company had nothing to do with this condition, or the management of the excursion, tut that members of the employees or ganization found purchase of tickets for the annual lake trip almost -compulsory. " . '- Raise Relief Fund. Acting Mayor Moorhouse and his ad visors today decided to raise a relier fund of "5200.C00 to be distributed by a sub-committee acting under direction of the "National Red Cross, the Associat ed Charit'es, and the Municipal Health Department. In addition . to this, the Western Electric Company, whos em ployees formed the majority of the ex cursion party, announced' that''?ll3,00(l from its employees' .nsuranee ;. fiends was avp.ilable for relief .Numerous private leliet tunds were started. ..' Meanwhile Mayor Thompson, - who was at" the ranama-F;icific Exposition to take part in the celebration of Illt fois day, was speeding roward Chicanrd on a spftcia train to take his pli-.e ii investigation. and relief work; ; . .- Coronor Hoffman issued an appeal to the public for a fund for. the burial of whatever dead. may : remain uniden tified. City ofT;cials with one voice de L'ared -.hai all dead should have prop er burial Uay of Gloam. . In .-In, J l. L..,.hmi the city prayers were off ered t or the thousands -whose hearts have ; been Pierced by grief. The day was ona of Kloom. The skyj was cloudy and" a r,iist hung in the air. There was more thin the usual Sabbati. quiet eve-y- v here a;ij tje crowds of outdoor pleas ure seekers were thin. A was the ?je yesterday, baseball - games were postponed.- - . . ... - Various theories as to -what caused the Eastland to turn over were dis J5sed,-but without prospect of a defl- riite explanation reached. The' most - iscussed theories are four: That the boat was overloaded: that' she was not properly ballasted; that a tug that made -last to warn the Kastland from the nocks started pulling too soon; -that onestion of passengers rushing to the rortside attracted by some passing sen- ation tipped the steamer over. -. Horror, Pathos, Heroisnt. v -i With the assembling today: of stories of witnesses and survivors, more and fiore incidents of horror, pathos and i froism came to light. All of. the East i:,ul's passengers save two or three Hundred who clung .to the? starboard jail or climbed out of starboard port f:'uShrf nn .11,... MKjr4M"kAf.' tuonlinued Qa Pag mht)f - v . s TO LOCATE CAUSE OF DISASTER Criminal Negligence Has Been Hinted. TOO MANY PASSENGERS Two Thousand Paftoengers and Crew ot Seventy Said to Have Been Or- , dered for the Eastland Ex- i tremely Dangerous. Chicago, July 25. "A considerable portion of the blame for the Eastland disaster rests upon the United , States Inspection Bureau," said Maclay Hoyne, State's attorney, in a statement tonight regarding his investigation of -1 the wreck. If the Inspectors had done their, duty, the accident could not have occurred. We know the 'ship was de clared unsatisfactory by them, because I 'have copies of letters sent to Wash ington which predicted yesterday's oc currence. I may introduce these let ters at the inauest. 'v. - Three investigations into the disaster were in full swing here today.)' Dick- erson N.'Hoover, government steamboat inspector, -,J and Federal ; Supervisor Charles Westcott arrived from Wash ington and conferred with the" localin spectors who - began- to gather - - facts for the federal grand jury, ordered em paneled Tuesday. . Maclay Hoyne, State's attorney, had a. full . force of men locating Witnesses to go., before the gra!njufy, w Mich will be empah neled tomorrow. The entire police de- criminal neitliK'eftce. iti connection-7Wit the- wrecV' had leeri obtained-by then' was - hinted by C. C. He ale y. He said valuable , inf ormation was "found in the inspection papers seized -yesterday in CaptainHarry Pederson's cabin. . Two documents : were taken.- These papers, according to the meagre - information (obtainable, -showed that following in spection, the boat, was to be permitted to carry 2,000 passengers and; a crew of 70. . Chief Healey refused to discuss the papers, other than to admit he had them, and that he would turn them over to State's Attorney Hoyne,. I . "Has there been criminal negli gence ?" the chief was asked. - h -' "There is no doubt of that," Chief Healey answered.. Coroner Hoffman issued the following statement today: "I Intend to use every effort within my power to punish very person, directly or indirectly responsi ble for this, disaster. None shall es cape. I" am ready to co-operate with anyf official, city, State or National, in flxingr the responsibility." : .- 1 Numerous theories were advanced; to account for the accident, but evidence thus far obtained made no single one more probable than another. One the ory given - credenee by many ' was that the water-ballast had been pumped out (Continued on Page Eight.) NOTE IS MOST UNFAVORABLY RECEIVED BY BERLIN PAPERS Text Was Printed Sunday Morning The Vossiche Zeitung Says it Shows Lack of Readiness to Understand Ger man View pomt--The Tageblatt Says America ' ) Wants to Cripple Teutonic Submarine Attacks Berlin, July 25. (Overseas News Agency . Dispatch by Wireless to Say the enemy. The war on land has shown Germany concerning submarine war fare was received most" unfavorably by ; the German newspapers, in which it was printed Sunday morning. ; t ; The Vossische Zeitung in a lengthy editorial says: VThe refusal to ac cept" Germany's practical proposal to protect American passengers shows an absolute lack, of readiness to under stand the -German standpoint. ., The principle that belligerent states must protect neutrals is untenable : if ap plied fin the fullest sense, as it; Wo.uld moan abdication "t6 neutral states." It is true that; belligerents must respect neutral rights, but only provided neu trals. do everything to prevent f their citizens getting into situations where pain is impossible. . t v ; "''" Viqtory over the enemy 'is the su preme laW for every belligerent. Those who render .more difficult this task than ' does international law, support the nemy. . The war on lfend has shown dearly- that restrictions are necessary. A person who remains" Within a bel ligerent fortress or-who walks into a-gun fire zone "risks his life : without the right of pain from his home gov ernment.' . f , '' "'. - 4 "The same is also true of .naval war fare in spite of the mistaken phrase "freedom vof .the seas". It is granted that the1 ocean is Tree for peaceful travel but naval battles also. take place on it. Neutral ships sailing between fighting battleships run the risks7 of belhg hit' by "Shells ahd alsoofbemg iitrucliby-amines. iKThe subiritte on-; MORGUE PRESENTS A PITIFUL SIGHT Thousand Chicago Homes Be clouded With Grief. LOADS OF BODIES Violent Emotion Suppressed as the Many Bodies are Identified Less Than Hundred Left Uni dentified Last Night 5 Chicago, July 25. Sorrow which spread over the city with the East land disaster and beclouded thousand homes with poignant grief, hung to West today over the silent forms of the victims in the drill hall of the second regiment armory. There was little sign of violent emotion, though every where the tenseness of repression waS apparent. Men and women, boys and girls and even little ones, bereft in many, cases of all their loved ones, though they shook with sobs, made no outcry as they beheld their dead. Some few collaDsed and were cared for by Red Cross nurses in another room. But for the thousands who through tne night and day visited the armory, not more than a hundred needed aid. All through the night load after load of bodies Were received at the morgue and through the morning s.t less ire auent intervals, the procession contin ued. As fast as" the bodies were iden tified record was taken by the cor norer's officers and then were turned over to those. who claimed them. Early tonight, less' than a hundred bodies were left in the armory. Many of the bodies bore no signs of struggle. Calm and still, their faces iay upturned and JunioVBredtold, ih .identification. Here and there, however, was, one with dls torted limbs or: with bruised head. Per haps the most pitiful were the bodies of - babies. I- In the Red Cross room there were many scenes of sorrow. One aged wo man kept repeating' "all gone, husband. son, his wife and" their two children One man bowed with years, screamed and struggled with those about him when , he saw the bodies-of . his wife and children. "The men are the hard est to control when they do give way,' said the physician in charge of the relief room. From the first word of the diaster, till late tonight, neither coroner Hoff man, his aids, nor any of the higher police officials took any rest. TO AID FLOOD SUFFERERS Two "American Warships Offered For - Chinese Relief Work Peking July 5. Rear Admiral Al bert G. Winterhalter, Commanding the United States Asiatic fleet, has offer ed to the Chinese authorities the use of warships oCthe fleet for relief work in - the flooded Canton delta. Small American vessels already "have been assisting in relief work. Thousands of natives ' have .lost their lives in the flood.' ly instruments are the firing of tor pedoes. , "Those who demand that Germany should conduct the war according to rules laid down by some academic pro fessor, expect Germany either to en danger her-submarines or to give up this warfare, which means the weaken ing of Germany in the interest of.Jier enemy. This is not neutrality, but par tisanship against Germany ....--.'.' :' "We know today that the passengers (of the Lusitania) could have been saved, but that they were neglected. Germany regrets their death, but she has a clean conscience and ffas no reason to disapprove of the conduct, of her submarine commanders. "President Wilson considers the fur ther torpedoing of British warships carrying American passenger a deliber i ately unfriendly act. While Germany always is-glad to respect American friendship, she has conceded every thing that can be conceded. One . bit more would be considered humilating by Germany whoes. armies b.ave-:been victorious on all the battlefields in the, east and west." . The. Tagliche Rundschauj and the Kreuz i Zeitung . similiary declare . the American note calls for the most . de cided opposition : and that it requires Great Britain to show at least an equai responsibility for the spirit of interna tional law " as the f President demands from Germany. . - - '' ..; v: - The Tageblatt says: "The note shows clearly, that the American -government- cares more , for the .crippling of our submarine war than for the safe guarding of American lives. .The Unjt ed States must: realize that to change our aubrnarine warfare , is out -;of vthe ituestiori.;o-.The" jnote. proves that'.pTo- Army and . Navy Busy on Re ports on Program; -',! - FOR . BETTER DEFENSE Big: Building Program Is Being Plan ned for the Navy While the Army Looks Toward Establishing Army of 600,000 Washington, July 25. Pending President Wilson's return from Cor he will formulate nish, N. H., when with Secretary Garrison and Secretary Ianiels. What the White House has announced would be a' sane, reasonable and practical program of national de fense, army and navy officials are busy assembling the information upon which the new military policy-will be found ed. ' - ' '.' No announcements have been made as to what the army and navy boards at work On " jthc ; needs of the respec tive services have concluded, but .it is known that both have their work well advanced. It had been planned to lay the reports : before the respective Secretaries within- a -month or six weeks, but in .view of the White House statement it was regarded 'as probable tonight that they would be rushed t completion and submitted within a few days. -" i Big ; Navy Programme It is definitely known that navy plans contemplate a 7 big increase in submarines, the-building of thirty and perhaps fifty being Recommended; that several battle cruiser will be urged and at least f our ' dreadnaughts, ano that a big increase in the auxiliary fleet and in navy, air craft will be sought. Several additional-small navy yards to serve as submarine bases al so will be suggested, Jt. Is thought. Such a program would .'"carry with it of necessity ait increase in navy personnel and possibly the enlargement of. the academy at"! Annapolis where navy officers are trained. Army of 500,0001 Men Army plans look to , the building-up of an army to( -J&0,Q0 1 men, regulars andi militia? f-Wi W31-iUtQ sanitary , commission.: under.,,,: ilr long TSeeffne ngufenRfchard PT Strong, for which Ihe States ThrslSife at Which army officers placed the needs of the country ' for - defense. To-make the plan efflciint, it is believed some scheme to federalize the militia will be advised and also methods of building up reserves for both' the regulars and militia will be proposed. Another fea ture to receive -attention possibly will be plans for training officers for the volunteer forces. Enlargment ofWest Point may be recommended. - This general plan! contemplates, it is understood, only the mobile force. The coast artillery, garrisons for the canal zone, Hawaaii, the Philippines, Alaska and Porto ' Rico will be .con sidered separately. j Great attention will . be given to fully presenting to the President the material problem. The army officers hold that ample equipment of field guns, rifies, machine guns and heavy field ordnance must I be made in ad vance. Field gun ammunition ana small catridges can be turned out in a hurry. It is aid private plants are to make these increases under the sti mulations of European contracts CONVERTED HOSPITAL SHIP FOR TUBERCULAR PATIENTS Newborn's Infected Will Be Under Care of Miso Virginia Gibbs Newtrern, July 25. f'Ship ahoy. What boat lies there?" will be the saluta tion of Craft coming j up Neuee within a. few days, as .they view the 'trim white craft lying at j Union Point fly ing a white flag .witfci a crimson cross in itjS center; "Tis the good ship Com fort with Captain Virginia Gibbs in command", will float! back the reply and 'tis said . that. Captain Gibbs is some skipper 'and that her crew will be one of the most unique that ever set sail with a daring young mariner. The houseboat comfort is to be turned into a hospital ship for Newbern's tu bercular infected citizens and those who care to, take, the treatment under the able supervision of Miss " Gibbs will gladly be numbered among her "crew,. Every morning the patients will go down to thej ship r and board her. During the day they will rest along her decks, taking in the sunshine and the balmy air and there is every reason to believe that those afflicted will soon be cured of 'the disease. Miss Gibbs, who Came to Newbern only a few weeks ago, is due the credit for the originality of the hospital ship scheme. ' The boat was . donated for her. use and every possible assistance is tOybe given her. inj this work. ; . . 1 i . - . ' CONTROLS MEXICAN llAILWAY." Gonzales Has Established Headquarters at Omttuico. Washington, J uly :. 25.A message from General Carranza at Vera, Cruz to the Carranza " agency here today, said "General Pablo Ganzales it in - con trol of the line of ' Mexican railway, and has established his general head quarters in Ometusco with hi advance posts at' Villa des Guadeloupe and that General Francisco Coss's forces "are , at Texcoco and: Los -Reyes. ; ' - f : "I have ordered' that-j the City of Mex ico be not reoecupied completely .at this time, due . to inconvenience In. military operations," the message, added. J ! .-i "The VillistasVhaye jevaded fighting, but they are" ; being phrsued. General Obregon continues ; hisi march towards the north:' : i. vt - Laredo, Tex.; July z5j Fighting be - t i tWeen' Villa and Carranza troops in the vicinity of Icamole and . Villa Garcia, near Monterey, during the last ten days, has resulted in at least 1,000 dead and twice that number wounded, according to American "passengers arriving today f romyMdnterey; 1Theca8UaIties,it -waa said, were about equally- divided, . FUNDS EXHAUSTED American Branch Will With- draw From Battlefields. REMAIN IN BELGIUM Doctors and Nurses Will Return from - Wo Zone to United. States Qe .. tober ly Thousands Have Been Cared for - -" . ' Washington, July 25. American Red Cross doctors and nurses will.be with drawn October 1 frqm. Ah e. European battlefields because, of lack-of funds to maintain them at their stations. The two "units in Belgium; where the great est need exists, may, be continued, but the other fourteen -detachments will return-to the United-States. -The Ser bian sanitary commission and other work ' supported by special, contribu tion will go on as long as those con tributions . are available, but the gen eral fund collected in the United States amounting to $1,560,000 will be v ex hausted October 1. : "The American Red Cross by Octo ber' 1, will have maintained its per sonel in each country a year with the exception of the Belgian Units and the Sanitary Commission", says the state ment "made" public today by Miss Mabel T. Boardman, chairman of the . Red Cross relief committee. "The tour of duty required of each surgeon and nurse does not' exceed six months, so that a number have already returned and substitutes been sent. The cost of transportation ' of these surgeons and nurses makes consider able financial demand upon the Red Cross treasury. The monthly payroll is' also a large item of expense. In view of this fact, and because its funds are rapidly becoming exhaust ed, the American Red Cross has decidr ed by October" 1 to withdraw he per sonnel now in. Europe; possibly with the exception of the units, in. Belgium. Much as it regrets this necessity, it realizes that no Red Cross of a neutral country ever before rendered so long and extensive service in the way of personnel to nations engaged in war. ,?The work of the American .Red Rockefeller-Foundation has made gen erous contributions, has been most suc cessful: The , American minister at Bucharest reports to the State Depart ment that the epidemic of typhus has been supressed." ' The Red Cross, " the ' report Shows, sent to the warring countries 367 per sons engaged in humanitarian relief. Of that number 71 were surgeons and 253, nurses while 43 were" members of the Serbian sanitary commission. Eng land, France, Russia, Germany, Aus-tro-Hungary, Serbia and Belgium, each received one or more complete hospital with doctors, nurses and other attend ants and with" all necessary supplies and equipment. Thousands of wounded and sick have been cared for. Fin ancial aid was sent also' to hospitals and, other institutions in many coun tries and supplies of bandages and medicines have reached the war zone by every steamer. The administra tive experiences of the high undertak ing have already amounted to $11,291, and this has been paid by the Red Cross itself qnd not taken from the fund contributed for relief. 32 GUARDS ARRESTED For Inciting Riot at Tidewater ' Oil Plant. Had Fired Shots at , Nearby Hornet All Arraigned and With the Ex ception of One Were Jailed on Default of Bond New York, July 25. Samuel H. Ed wards, general superintendent, and 32 guards of the Tidewater QH Company's plants in Bayonne, N. J., were arrested today and charged with inciting riot, by Sheriff Kinkead and his deputies. The arrests occurred after guards had fired several-shots at homes near the plant. "All were arraigned immediately. Edwards was released on $500 bail and August 1 was set for his hearing. The guards, nearly all of whom came from other cities, were sent to jail in default of $500 bail each. P. Leonbergoff, a la bor representative, arrested with -the guards, was released in $1,000 bail. The ; first arrests occurred after re ports of shooting from inside the Tide water plant, Which adjoins that of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, where the strike officials were, marked! by serious rioting last week, is in prog- ress. fThe Tidewater plants was shut down following the t first j outbreak- of trouble.. Persons living near the Tidewater-Works reported that early in the day bullets had broken windows 'in their homes. Father - Eigmund Swider, a Catholic priest, reported that a bul let struck the outside of his rectory. n"Sheriff Kinkead-said when. he passed the Tidewater works with two depu ties three guards armed jwifh rifles ap peared: on the wallurrounding T . the plant. He told ' them they were under arrest, but one guard, he said, levelled a rifle at the sheriffs head. When this guard ; saw,, the sheriff's . two deputies preparing to shoot, he dropped his wea pon t and all three surrendered. Superintendent Edwards was arrested in :a. group (tf eight -armed' guards in the street j outside of - the plant.: 'The re mainder of the' guards -were ; arrested 4 latest ;.i"nald the.. Tidewater ; n la n t SUPERINTENDENT AND ADVANCE ON RUSSIAN Army General Staff Recom mendations Endorsed BY SECURITY LEAGUE Report Points out .That Great Armed - Nations of World- Gould Vrana port Army Quicker Than We Could Mobilize One New York, July 25.- The report of the army committee . of the National Security League ,of which Henry L. Stimson, former: Secretary of War, is chairman, . characterizes the military defense of the country a's "woefully in sul.cient" and endorses the recommen dation of the General Staff of the Army, "made repeatedly to Congress," for a reserve army of a half million men. The report; made public tonight, also endorses " the repeated recommenda tions to Congress fo r providing adequate reserve of arms, armament, ammunition and all classes of war ma terial." .... ; The country's total defensive mobile forces consists of about 25,000 regulars and .- 60,000 militia, according to the report. " ' "Quite aside ; from its weakness in numbers,"- the report : continues, "this force ' would be poorly trained, hastily and ineffectually organized, ill-balanced, incompletely "equipped and lacking in such materials' as light and heavy artillery and ammunition "to serve it. With ordinary fortunes of war the pos sible outcome Is so apparent that it need not be stated." The report points out that the great armed nalions. of -the world have suffi cient merchant' shipping "to transport '1 touorhfiEeSy.-to sucn larger rorce inan.we can possioiy concentrate against ft."". Such a force could easilyland on the country's open coast it is stated. : ', "The only , sound . conclusion," says the report, "that cn be drawn from an unbiased and dispassionate considera tion of . facts, is that our defense ar rangements on land and sea are woe fully insufficient to meet the full re quirements of adequate national de fense." SPENT YESTERDAY RESTING President Will Begin "Work Today on Official Business Cornish,' N. H., -July" 25. President Wilson rested today, but tomorrow will begin on official business brought by him from Washington. The President himself remained sil ent regarding the plans of Secretaries Garrison and Daniels for a comprehen sive scheme of national defense and.it was siad at Harlakenden House that he would be able to 'do ' nothing desn ite in this direction -omtil he had re ceived their , personal reports after his return to Washington.' GERMAN SUBMARINES AGAIN BECOME ACTIVE '-'-. V ' - v ' One French ? and One British Steamer Sunk Several Other Smaller Vessels Also Taken as Toll Yesterday One of Underwater Craft Claimed to Have Been Destroyed London, July 25. -German submarines today resumed their activity in English waters, sinking a French steamer "and four British trawlers.- . One of the un dersea boats is reported to have been destroyed by "bombs and guri fire. The French steamship Danae, bound from Liverpool for Archangel, Russia, was sunk off Cape Wrath, Scotland. The trawlers Henry Charles, Kathleen, Activity and Prosper were sent to the bottom in the Norrh e,ea. The crews of all the vessels were saved. The Danae was attacked by two'sub marines. The crews of the trawlers state that one of the underwater craft Vas sunk by; means of bombs and gun fire" from the trawlers. The British steamer" Firth (406 tons) of Aberdeen, bound from France for Firth of Forthwas torpedoed today by a submarine in "the North sea. Four of her crew were killed .by the explosion. The Grimsby trawler , Perseus was destroyed today by a mine. Her crew of ten were killed. OPPOSED SEAMAN'S BILL Eastland's Owners Against - Measure that Might Have Prevented Diaster Syracuse, N.?T July 25. William C. Redfleld, Secretary' of the Depart ment of Commerce, who, is in Syracuse, tonight made" public . correspondence between the St. Joseph-Chicago. Steam ship Company, owners -of the steamer Eastland, and the. Department of Com merce, relating to . the new Seaman's act. ; ;. - -' -' Secretary Redfleld believes that un der the Seaman's act, the passenger carrying capacity of the Eastland could have been reduced '.from. 2,570 to 1,552. The steamship ' companyr opposed - the Seaman's- bill; . . , , ; WARS A W RESISTANCE Only Northern Flank of Erie . ; ' - - "... my's Army ; Making Progress. LITTLE CHANGE SOUTH German Reinforcements tor Mackensen, Between Kry tow and Sokal. French Report- Great Success in Vosges. London, July 25. Only the northern point of the pincers ' the Austro-Ger-mans for more than' a Week have been trying to close around Warsaw and the Russian armies in ' the Polish salient has made any progress during the laatv few days.; This point has forced its , way across the Narew ' river between the fortresses of Pultusk and Rozan and is advancing toward the Bug river, which stands for the greater part " of the way between it and the Warsaw ' Vitina railway, its objective. The oth er point, - which Field Marshal von Mackensen is directing aF the Chelm- ijuuan railway, nas- naraiy gained a yard of ground since its reached the village -of Reiovetz, just-south of the railway. .' . . In offering stubborn resistence to the German adyance, the Russians are mak ing a continual-threat at von Macken-sen's- flank along the Bug riverfrom the east of Chelm to east of Lemberg. Between KrytoW and Sokal, their at tacks ha v ' been particularly severe, compelling the Germans to send reen- forcements to meet them. Along the , Vistula to the south and west of War- saw, there has been little change . ex cept for the occupation, by the Ger man sof. some positions evacuated oy the Russians when they withdrew their - line. - ?Jf' " - -? ; While" Warsaw Is under heavy "pres- sure, the A.ustro-Germans have a lot of stiff work before them before its cap- -ture. ' After crossing the Narew they still have the broader Bug, lined wiJh fortresses, to face. Many are of the opinion that the most dangerous at tacks at the moment are those which are being made in the provinces of Courland, Kovno and Grodiro, at the j lines of communications between War saw andv. the northern interior of Rus sia. These attacks are for the most part by. cavalry ad doubtless will be met in due time by the concentration of cossacks in these regions. ; The French report another success In the Vosges at Ban-de-Sapt, where they claim to have taken more than S00 un wounded prisoners. The Germans ad mit the loss of a portion of their trench es there. There is no diminution in the Italian offensive along the Isonzo river, which the Italians say is proceeding fa--vorably for them, but -which the Aus- -trians declare is meeting with no suc cess. . j. .' FALL OF GORIZIA IMMINENT Italian Force Back Austrian and.Takn Many Prisoners. Geneva, via Paris, July 25. Dispatch es to the Tribune from Chiasso and Lai" ' bach say that the fall of Gorizia is im minent, as the i city has received tho heaviest bombardment thus far in the Austro-Italian war. The Italians,. thme dispatches say, have taken many pris oners, including eighty Bavarians. The battle continues on Carso pla teau, where both sides are declared to be losing heavily. The Italians bom barded Plava, Friday and Saturday and destroyed the strongest fort there, number 3, and also one 1? inch gun. The correspondents say that the Aus trians made a counter attack on Monte Nero and succeeded In recapturing some trenches. The Italians at Ternova are reported to have forced back the Aus trians. two -miles. .. . It is asserted that the Italians are virtually lfcasters of the north shore "of Lake Garda .where many torpedo boats are aiding in the attack on Riva. GERMANS CROSS NAREW They ' Also Report Approaching Bag River Southeast of Pultusk Berlin,. July 25. via London The . Germans have crossed the Narew river on a front from a point south of Ostol-' enka to Pultusk. Southeast of vthe Pultusk f ortress, the Tueto'nic forces are approaching . the Bug river. Those two advances of German troops in Rus sian Poland are announced in today's official statement. The movement in dicates the 'Germans are making for the Warsaw Petrograd railway, which ' runs parallel with the Bug river, 12 miles to the southeast. ORDERS INVESTIGATION President Directs Nothing Be Left Un done by Department of Commerce Cornish, N. H July 25. President Wilson today ordered that a complete investigation be, made by the "Depart ment of. Commerce into the sinking of the excursion steamer Eastland In the Chicago river with a consequent loss 6f many hundred lives. - V Actipg Secretary Sweet, ' of the de partment, sent'him "word that the caufi es of the diaster would be looked into and the President directed that noth ing be left undone to fix the respon sibility. The President also dispatch ed "a telegram to Mayor Thompson, of Chicago, expressing profound sympathy and Borrow over the loss of life, r London, July 26 3:47 A. M. The ad- . miralty announces the loss ' of the Ab erdeen trawler, .BrltoW but does ' not state whether by- torpedo or mlne.rThs trawler's skipper was killed and five of , the crew, missing tare believed to havs been drowntd." " ( I V 1. V ,! ". ' ''-.:. :;" i - J'. I
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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