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CITY DAILY SENTINEL ASSOCIATED !RESS DISPATCHES 10 Pages 1 Section 3rd Year WINSTON-SALEM, N. C.f FRIDAY EVENING,' FEBRUARY 26, 1915 o'clock Edition JUNOLW COPT, TWO CWNTV ON TRAINS, FIVJB CENT. !; 'ARING FOR G OPERATIONS OF LAND FORCES Lmcnt of Troops Expect- ...it Vmm Shit llnff In Kesua i " -o of Positions. MAKE ANOTHER ATTEMPT ON WARSAW - ttaiti Unit Ctes Reported to Be CIr cling Scotland, o.- Tho Imnression is oa, reu. - , .round among Hritisn aim 'observers that Germany is avnenrtltnrA of fill! r a r . a the west. .Notwunsianums !, .accesses in the east, tne L. nd recuperating powers , . Daian army seems to nave Led the flerman general staff wisest to take the defensive Russian campaign while dellv Lmher blow in the west. fi. rash comes the allies will li nrcnareJ to meet it. During L few months a decided change taken place in the fot the allies, with reinforce I better gmis anil more completo kient, lat-K ot wnicn was iuu during the early stages or wi i ihe expectations of a newGer- leaeral offensive In the west, an- 'par is expressed that a Uer- Ijvance in the east will be made the idea of taking Warsaw, i Tjrks a.train are appearing in far news by virtue ol the renew ihtlne in the C aucasus. Mean tae allied fleet has at laBt de led the fort at the entrance to bdenelles in what is believed to Idlminarv to a determined at' l to force the historic straits. Iwould have important stragetic tal and economic effects, tpless reporis viai me Amen .amship Dacla plans to go north- I around Scotlai.t on her way to urg revives speculation as to t and when she will be seized by British. iE WARFARE GOING IN IN THE CARPATHIANS leva, Feb. 26 The fighting in the kthians is coming rapidly much Isiege warfare according to dls- et reaching here. Ice February istli ihesa advices lore than :'0i,i)i)0 men have been lug hand to hand in the trenches In making any material advance ksiin forces are pouring Into Un- and Lpines in Hungary. ring the night of Friday, February taking advantage of the lull, the pans picked up 8,000 wounded lover :,"i dead. The wounded pen lying on the ground, some for bun without food or shelter. The f officer of the Austrian? is author r the statement that 80 per cent le men will be invalids for life. lo majority of the men were in. I in the head by rifle thrusts and I of them will be partially or total led. MBARDMENT OF THE DARDENELLES SUCCESS ptantinople, Feb. 26. Three war- t ol the allies were damaged In iroaioarunient or the forts Feb y 23. according to an announce !'. today. The text follnw- a big armored vessels on Febru--5 again bombarded th Turkish I t the Dardenelles for seven P1- At the conclusion they retir- l ie direction ol Tenedoes Is- tme ship of the Agamennon nd two other armored vessels 'damaged. 3 announcer! fmm loo) ft that all thl fnrta hJ 1 " . 0.V a CnmhinuH T)i.ftl0. A . ......in ut uiau buu c fleet of over thirty vessels, announcement mentioned no los H described tiio r,u..n. MSfUl. "tvt, iNUTHINiJ TO HAV M. V MAA A prlln. Feb. 26 Tnw. .mi.i Nuniminn ,... ' " Ming important has occurred in -...nc ui me war. RITISH JAMAGED IN S. ATLANTIC K ! Cologne. Qa- tiermn , 0 a lemer received lnir. ,. uiumuoo, Uruguay, liter. S - IU lnat two British rn tlie south Atlantic severely uintiuu vtan Co: tinned on page Ten.) BRITISH LINERS EQUUIPPED WITH . GUNS TO. PROTECT THEM AGAINST . ATTACK liiii!? f'f tA HWfsmri t J I ill ; 1 BMTSH UflER'S MfCtrtCY GUM CZEWf$&"& England has equipped most of her merchant ships with guns to use against submarine attack, it is claim ed by the Germans. However this may be, it is known and acknowledged by the Knglish that some ot their liners carry guns. The picture shows members of the gun crew of a British liner. They wear jackets and caps covering their whole head which they put on over their sailor caps. PASSPORT FRAUDS ARE UNEARTHED Federal Authorities Begin Rigid Investigation of Seriout Charges Against German Offi cer in Washington As Result of Statements Made by Young German Arrested in New York. MAP OF UNMIXED AREA IN WHICH NEUTRAL SHIPS CAN REACH GERMANY L I German Spy En Route to Eng land Now Is Implicated in Startling Statement Made to Federal Officers and Interna tional Scandal Is Threatened If Statements Are Found to Be True. 810 STEAMER IN DISTRESS ON OCEAN. New Va.l - . nd n..r Wltn freight CP Rar ' 11 dlstrest off ge r.,.- "ctora,nB to a ines. Mi"B for hV " Mid t0 H.lif, ' bout 415 mile from " the Mongolian. GERMANS DECLARE THEY WILL NOT MOLEST CARGO OF WILHELMINA London, Feb. 2G. W. L. Brooking.O a member of the firm of F. L. Green & Co., commission merchants ot St. Louis, and owners of the cargo on board the American ship W'ilhelmina, reached London today from Berlin, having in his possession a declaration from the German foreign office signed by Gottlieb von Jagow, the foreign minister, and attested by James W. Gerard, the American ambassador to Germany, which pledges the German government not to assume control of the cargo of the Wilhelmlna nor of any other vessels arriving from Amer ica. This declaration says, that such cargoes may be sold on the open mar ket and that they will not be used by the army or the navy. The case ot the Wilhelmlna Is soon to come before a British prize court. She was loaded with a cargo of food products in New York and started for a German port. She was gathered in by the British marine authorities, and a disposal of her cargo is being watch ed with much interest. Text of German Declaration. The text of the German declaration follows: "By motion of William L. Brook ing, manager ot the Green Commission Company, of St. Louis, the Imperial government makes the following de claration: The cargo of the steamer Wilhelmlna as well as the cargoes of vessels arriving in the future trom America with food for Germany shall be subject neither to seizure nor to selling right, nor to any other govern ment measure taken in connection with maximum prices, according to the measures already issued tor home grown wheat. 'The cargo of the W ilheimina as well as all future similar cargoes shall remain,' the property of the American owner, and it can be sold by him at any place at the price asked." SUFFRAGE LOSES OUT IN .VERMONT LEGISLATURE Vnntngllor Fell. 2C The lower house of the legislature by a vote ot 129 to 100 killed the Woman's sur fmim hill, which was Dassed by the state aenate. The vote waB the clos est in history. The galleries were crowded with suffragists and antis. but no demonstration was maae. The bill would have assessed to vnman vntnrs a Dolltax and allow them equal rights to hold office. COLORADO CONSIDERING PROHIBITION QUESTION Tkonvor Fb. 2C The Colorado house of representatives by a vote of 63 to 0, finally passed the temper ance 1)111 tor the enforcement of the statewide prohibition constitutional amendment. The bill differs from the senate measure by forbidding sale of liqur hy drujr stores or by any other agen cies or individuals. It will be sent to conference. RUSSIANS LOSE THEIR LAST BUCKOWINA STAND Cologne, Feb 2fi After several days of artillery fighting and in spite of great numerical superiority the Rus sians were driven from Bojan in Buckowena where they were strongly fortiaed according to a dispatch to the Cologne Gazette. Their retreat did not stop until tbey reached a point 12 miles north. With thia re verse the final Russian opposition In Buckowena is shattered. - TO 'ATTACK NEW YORK IS THE PLAN NOW Xew York, Feb. 2fi. The govern ment is favorably considering a plan which, if put into effect, promises to bring about the most spectacular nav al demonstration this nation has ever witnessed and one likely to take place In the early fall. It will also be what spectacular dis plays are usually not, a demonstration which will serve two very useful ends, the bringing of the navy and its work close to the public eye, and the bene fit the navy itself will receive from a, hitherto unatteinpted operation car ried out on a majestic scale. Details of the Plan. The plan contemplates a massed at tack upon New York by a score or more ot dreadnoughts and battleships, representing a hostile force, and a de fense of the harbor by the coast artil lery corps of the army, by submarines and destroyers, and perhaps by the battleships in reserve, manned fortho occasion, by the naval militia. The army may employ its aero planes and the navy its hydroplanes. Dummy mines probably will be laid, and the submarines ot the attacking force given an opportunity of dis playing their skill in countermining. List of the Probable Fleet. Officials of the navy department es timate that about 125 vessels would be available for this purpose. This number will include the six euper dreadnoughts recently added to the fleet, the New York and Texas, the Wyoming and Arkansas, the Utah and Florida, and perhaps the Nevada and Oklahoma. Besides these , will be the dread noughts Delaware and North Dakota, the pro-dreadnoughts South Carolina and Michigan, and the battleships Kan sas, Virginia, Georgia, Nebraska, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Louisiana, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Vermont. June Fleet Review Outlined. It is proposed to have the Atlantic fleet leave the winter base in Cuban waters early in May for N'arragansett Bay, where maneuvers arranged by the War College will be carried out, ani then to rendezvous at New York for review by the Secretary and high of ficers of the navy. , From New York the ships go to Hampton Roads for another review, after which, it plans for the cruise to San Franolsco via the Panama Canal are not abandoned, they will start for the canal. DATE8 OF THE 8TATE AND THE COUNTY FAIR 8 The State Fair will be held this year, October 18-23. Other falra in the state will be held aa follows: Durham, September 21-24; Salisbury, September 28, October 1st; Winston-Salem, Oo-' tober 5-8. Greensboro, October 12-15; Charlotte, October 28-29. Now York, Feb. 26. Federal au thorlties today began a rigid investi gation of a statement by counsel of Richmond P. Steglar, the German na val reservist arrested hero Wednes day that Capt. Bo Ed, naval attache to the German embassy in Washington had furnished an American passport to Carl Hans Lody, the German spy put to cfeath In the tower of London last November. In a general denial of the statement Capt. Boy Ed referred to this allegation as "trash." Charles H. Griffith, former assistant United States district attorney, has been assigned by the United States commissioner to defend Steglar. "Steglar told me," Mr. Griffith said, that on one occasion while he was on his way to keep an appointment with Capt. Boy Ed, Dr. Fuhr told him that Capt. Boy Ed. had said he, Steg lar, said that Capt. Boy Ed was the only person who knew all the, details of the plot." Mr. Griffith says all of statements were corroborated by Mrs. Steg lar. According to Mr. Griffith, Steg lar Was to have sailed tor England to work for the German government in obtaining Information on the English fleet. Steglar was to have gone on the Franconla according to the lawyer and when he decided not to go a young German-American was assigned to the perilous task and sailed on the steam er with a bogus passport. The Franconla Is due in Liverpool in a tew hours. Steglar was quoted as having said his wife was to have been paid $250 a month while her husband was in England and if he was captured she was to receive $100 a month as long as she lived. Knar York. Fnli. 2(5. As the result of a tfp received from an angry wo man the government special agents arrested yesterday Richard Peter Steg lar, a German naval reservist, until recently assistant manager of the ex port department in the Hobokeff fac tory of the Keuffcl & Essen Co., and Gustave Cook, a waiter in the Ameri can Hotel at Hoboken. Accortnz to the charge, Steglar wished to get back to Germany to join the navy and he formed a conspiracy with Cook, who Is also known as Fred Cookey, to get the passport in the name of an American citizen, cook is said to have introduced Steglar to Richard Madden, who is an employe in a New Jersey dance house, and this man, according to Superintendent Off- ley, agreed to permit Steglar to im personate him In applying (or the passport to Secretary Bryan. Then another man, who is not yet under ar rest, la alleged to have joined in the conspiracy. He is called Leonard, and his part was to attest that Steglar really was, as he represented, Mad den, an American citizen. The complaint then charges that to carry out this conspiracy Steglar on January 26 signed the name ot Rich ard Madden to an application (or a passport and appeared In the Federal District Court and took the oath of allegiance to the United States. Two days later, it ia alleged, he presented bis application at Washington, and on January 29 received in this city Pass port No. 48,821, which had been duly issued by the State Department in the name ot Richard Madden and on which the State Department had fixed the photograph ot Steglar as that of Madden. The alleged conspiracy seems to have run alone smoothly until a joal- ous girl got wind of it Then she told Special Agent Albert O. Adams ana be reported It to Assistant District Attorney Roger A. Wood, who had the warrants Issued. Steglar and Cook were Induced yesterday to cross the river to New York, and were promptly arrested on this side of the North River so as to avoid any trouble about removal proceedings. They were ar raigned before Commissioner Hougn ton and were held In -115,000 ball each. In default of this they were committed to the Tombs to await fur ther examination. Cook requesting as he was led away that as his health was poor the Deputy Marshal would be sure his cell was airy. Steglar, who Is a clean-cut young German, married an Atlanta, Ga., girl last December, ,- ( The map shows the waters along the German coast thru which neutral ships are supposed to pass on their, way to German ports and also the coasts of Schleswlg-Holsteln and Don mark. Such ships are to be furnished with pilots at Lister Tlef, on the SchltBwig-llolstoin coast, north of the Inland of Sylt. The Island of Borkum off which the American ship Evelyn was sunk hy a, mine, Is shown. The German admiralty has announced that an unmlned, neutral area exists off the coast ot Holland, after passing thru which pilots are to be supplied. machinery bill holds Attention OF THEH0USE Tax Assessor Proposition Re quiring Much Debate in Lower Branch. ' ' SENATE LIMITS TALK TO FIFTEEN MINUTE PERIODS Judge Carter and Solicitor Aber- nethy in Raleigh Awaiting Committee Action. Raleigh, Feb. 28. The two days debate In the houae, on the ' fourteenth section of the ma. ehlnery bill as to tax assess. merit and equalisation terminal. . ed at 2 o'clock In the defeat 60 to 50, of the Allen amendment whloh proposed the present township assessment system ln stead of the committee section for county assessor and squall- aer and tax I let ore as embraced " In the 1911 revenue aot. . , . ... CARRANZA TAKES DRASTIC STEPS TO COLLECT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AMERICANS LOST LIVE8 ON CARIB. Berlin, Feb. 26. Three mem bers of the crew of the Ameri can steamer Carlb lost their lives when their ship was sunk Tuesday in she North Sea. . CARN IVAL MEN AUTOMOBILE WRECK Unnlimnurv. Atn.. Ffih. 26. Oll6 man was killed and five others in jured, one fatally, when an automo hiin in wliirh thav were rldine crash ed into a street car here this morning. All but one were connected wltn tne Barkoot Carnival Company, exhibiting here this week. The dead man was I. Benyakar, con fidential agent of the company. K. G. itnrbnnt. nrnnrietor. was Drobably fa tally injured. Tho others are J. J. Davis, press agent; R. Gruberg, a lo cal clothier; L. E. Miller, confection er with the Barkoot company and L. M. Butler, secretary-treasurer 01 uie Barkoot company. , Thla rnmnanv has exhibited in Winston-Salem several times, the last time about two years ago under the auspices of tho Crouse Concert Band. Mr. Barkoot is remembered by many and was well liked locally. MANY GERMAN PAPERS HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED Amntnninm. Fh. 26.. via London. Figures compiled by thel'ostal author ities show that since the beKlnniim of the war 864 German newspapers have suspended publication. O Washington, D. C. Feb. 26. Impo sition of speclul taxes amounting to millions of dollars upon business houses and property owners of Mexico City by General Obrogon, tho Car runza commander, was reported to the state department yesterday: Under the goneral's decree, pay ments must bo made bofore 6 o'clock this evening on pain ot imprisonment and confiscation of property. . Foreign Firms Liable. Tho tax amounts to three-fourths of ono per cent on all banks, business concerns, stock companies, mortgage holders and individual operators in Uie federal district. Foreign companies are subject to tho tax on the amount ot capital In vested in tho republic. rrlvnte taxpayers must pay an ad ditional amount oil the basis ot one third their annual payments. Bryan Plans No Move. Ambassador du Gania, of Brazil, whose government In caring for Amer ican diplomatic Interests in Mexico City, conferred with Secretary Bryan. It was reiterated that the United States contemplated no immediate move in the general Mexican situa tion. The Carranza agency in Washington announced that it had bfen Informed that Yaqul Indians had mutinied against Maytorenn, tho Villa comman der in Sonora, killing 34 men, Includ ing four officers. FORTUNE TO GIRL FROM MAN SHE ONCE MARRIED Los Aiiaetes. Feb. 2li. Miss Maude Armtli'ld was awarded $10,000 in hor $5110.000 breach of promise suit against Bryant Howard, Jr., of San Diego, by a Jury in superior court iiere. Miss Armfletd was married to How ard in Sun DIpko on July 4. HUM). The marriage w as annulled October 7, 11)03, because It was icbuiici iiowaru e di vorce from his first wife was defect ive. Miss Arm field's suit! was baSfd on the allegation that she agreed to the annullnmnt with tho understanding that Howard would remarry her when lie secured a perfected divorce. MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WILL BE REQUIRED FOR BRITISH EXPENSES London. Feb. 26. An additional 1850 million dollars will be needed to meet Great Britain's war expenses up to the end of the fiscal year on Marcn i according to government estimates given out today. That will make the total outlay tor this year $i,io,ouu. 000. The estimates place require ments (or the coming year at 11,250,-000,000. The estimates cover amounts re quired to defray expenses of naval and military operations, cost ot as sisting with the food supply and in assuring a continuance ot trade and other expenditures. BRITISH TRAMP STEAMER REACHES PORT IN SAFETY London, Feb. 26. The British tramp steamer Weehawken, concerning which anxiety was felt after one of her life buoys was picked up at Ang lesey is safe at Barry. The life buoy was lost overboard. BRITISH OFFICER DENIES THE EVELYN DIRECTION London. Feb. 26. The Information which the American embassy has been able to transmit to Washington in re snonse to the state department's re quest about the sinking of the Evelyn docs not go beyond what has been publicly announced. I can say, however, on the highest authority, that notwithstanding the uictnmi.nt rnntalnpd -in a Berlin wire less messuge, the British naval officer who boarded the Evelyn gave her captain no directions as to his course. SOCIALISTS APPROVE CONSERVATION OF FOOD Berlin, Fob. 26 Approval of meas ures taken by the government to con serve the food supply was expressed at Socialist mass meetings last nl'jrht. Reduction of the maximum potato price was demanded however. Raleigh, Fob. 26. (Representative llanos of Forsyth introduced In the house thta morning a bill relative to the, five cent union banking com pany. i-s Other new bills offered in the house today wore the following:1 ' By Coughenhour lAmend the char ther of Salisbury. , By Brockett Authorise bonds (or High Point. By lfynum To provide for the leg islation for private surveys. By Carroll-JTo authorize bonds tor streets in Walnut Cove. aiy Carroll To amend the Stokes county law as to hunting. The. house received over one hun dred new bills during the morning hours. Revenue Bill up Again. The senate this morning passed the revenue bill on second reading on roll call, Senator MoMlchael called up his amendment that proposed to spe cify a six per cent limit to the in crease in revenue of the state for the next two years and provide that the tax rate of the state be not flxai until after the assessments of all parts of the state; have been certified to the state tax commission, the commis sion to then figure out the tax rate on the basis of the amount of funds to be raised. This amendment was discussed at length and defeated by a vote of 30 to 11. . . v. Machinery Bill Hearing. - The house has devoted most of tho session today to renewed discussion ot section 14 of the machlnory bill that Involves the appointment of , a county tax assessor by the state tax commission and provision (or tax list ing in each township. Opponents are fighting this bill ' under the Allen amendment (or the elimination of county 'tax assessors and restoration of the system provided by tbs 1U act- ) The senate this morning voted to adopt the resolution of Senator Ward to allow no senator to consume more than 15 minutes in speaking during tho remaining one week of the term. Abernethy-Carter Hearing. Both Judge Carter and Solicitor Abernothy are here awaiting the meet-' Ing of the Judiciary commutes this afternoon when the committee will reach a final decision as to whether there shall be an investigation of the contempt cause at New Bern and the charges against Judge Carter. The general Impression is that there will be an investigation, but several leading members of the committee still ex press hopo that the matter wUl be dropped. TALL IN SHOULD GET RID OF OVERCOATS FORTY-TWO UNDER ARREST FOR MURDER Aurora, III Feb. 25 Forty two suspscts are being held by the police In connection with the murder of Miss Emma Pet erson, 21 yesrs old, killed en the street Isst night. Two othsr wo men hsve been killed In a simi lar manner within the last year. Aurora, HI , Feb. 21 An old wooden glove and a piece of gaa pipe were found at the place where Mlsa Peter- son was killed. Her handbag opened and rifled was found a block and a half ' away. The gloves were given blood- x hounds for a scent. As in the murder of Jennie Miller, killed some months ago with a pipe -wrench, "a great tall man wearing a long overcoat" Is being sought. John Mason, tin eccentric old man . who lives near the scene pt the killing, Is among those detained, but the po lice believe he Is Innocent. Twenty-five held are negroes. 1
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