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Preparing
UlVe Been
Onslaught on Allies' Line
For Days.
KEEP OUT
RANGE OF WARSHIPS
and French Elated
Over Destruction of Ger
many's Submarine Base-
Both Russians and Germans
Claim Gains in the East.
DEAD
AMID THE RUINS
Double Tragedy Enacted in
Florida, Probably For
Robbery.
Miami, Fla.,. Nov. 25. A. A.
Boggs, a prominent Florida attorney,
and daughter, Majorie, eighteen years
of age, were found murdered early to
day in the ruins of their country
home near here. The residence had
BLEASE WILL
TURN MM LOOSE
Seventy Five Convicts to be
Given Liberty
Tomorrow.
Columbia. S. C. Nov. 25. Gov,
Cole Blease announced today he
would give seventy-five convicts in
the State penitentiary, employed on
public works, pardons, or paroles as
a Thanksgiving present, in accord-
Loot Many Stores and Fight
Upon- the
StreetC
ZAFTA FORCES
CONTROL I'HE CITY
RrJlEMBGRRJ NAVAL MEN:.-
WJA TTGWIIRJG SOJEftJA USURIES
London. Nov. 2" Destruction of
Germany's rudimentary Naval base at
7MbruggP )y sliells from British and
flench warships, together with Ger-'
many's grim preparations for renewed
attempts to crush her way through the
jllied line to the French coast, were
the most significant news coming in
today from the western arena of war.
In the east the situation as regards
tie Russian and German armies in
Poland remains obscure. The Ger
mans are not denying the advance of
General von llindenburg has been
elietkeil. The Russian war office, on
toe other hand claims a decisive vic
tory. '
With smashing of the submarines
the Hermans have been laboriously
assemMii'.jr at Zeebrugge the greatest
danger to the allied fleet is removed
from that point of the coast. It is
bow felt there is little danger of an
undersea raid. As additional dis
patches arrive it is apparent the dam
age inflicted at Zeebruggs is more ex
tensive than first supposed. 1
Some reports say theGermans al
ready have started another attack up
on the allied front in Flanders, which
will be more intense, and formidable
h?t any hitherto undertaken It-is
apparent the (iermans have been care
fully preparing for this move for sev
eral days. The situation precludes
a secret attack, it is said the invaders
have gone ahead with their plan open
ly, keeping secret only the point of
the supposed center of the offensive
Movements. It is the opinion of mili
tary observers that the next onslaught
be particularly menacing, be
cause the Germans, profiting by past
mistakes, will keep far enough away
from the coast to avoid Naval guns
will concentrate their efforts on
one spot.
French Official Statement.
Paris, Nov. 2.", The French official
statement savs:
"From the North Sea to Ypres there
has been no infantry attacks, but be
tween Langemarck, and Zonnbecke.
w gained territory. In the vicinity
of Verdun the Indian troops recaptur
ed from the enemy certain trenches
which had heen taken -4rom them the
evening before. From Labassee to
Soissons there has been almost com
plete calm.
"u'e have made slight progress near j
wrryAu liae and in Argonne. At Beth-i-court.
northwest of Verdun, the
German attack was repulsed. Sus
pension of hostilities asked' bv the
enemy, was refused.
"to the region of Pontamousson our
cillery bombarded Aranville. Noth
lnS happened in Vosges."
Berlin Claims Gains.
Berlin (by wireless) Nov. 25.'
A official communication to the Ger
man General staff issued' today,
cl-tois the Germans have made prog
at Anas, France, and that ail
Russian attacks in East Prussia, have
been repulsed, and that the Germans
nave checked the Russian counter
Wacks in Russian Poland.
T"e text follows:
'Vestenlav
not i
the
bee set afire with the evident inten-1 ance with the custom since he be
tion of concealing the murder. came Governor. The records in the
i ne bodies were found by neigh
bors, who were attracted by the fire.
Mystery surrounds the killing.
office of the Secretary of State show
Blease has pardoned, or paroled four
teen hundred convicts.
GIVES IMPRESSION
OF BIG BATTLE
German Officer Writes Of an
Engagement Near
Chalons.
BELGIANS CROWD
HOLLAND TOWNS
Heavy Burden Has Fallen on
the Dutch Government.
Villa is Fast-ApiwblLching With
Army Provisional Presi
dent Delighted at Evacua
tion of Vera Cruz.
Washington, Nov. 25. While the guns, the thickness of surface armor,
American navy officers have watched tne weight of engines and coal ca
with critical eyes the deadly work pacity and Decause of ths last, the
of torpedoes fired from submarines ! 0 A viu.- .,v.
Paris, Nov. 25. The Aftenblatt of
Stockholm publishes a letter from a
German officer to a friend in Sweden
giving the following impressions of
an engagement near Chalons during
the battle of the Marine.
"In the neighborhood of Charlons I
took part in the mot terrible battle
that I have ever seen ; I was. however,
at Liege, at Namur and at LongwaF
........ Since it was impossibly fpr
our artillery to silence the French
batteries, we decided ,to charge,
thinking the French and English
would fly before the German bayonet;
the experience proved that our ideas
on that subject were entirely erron
eous.
"Two of our regiments were ordered
to take the allies' position by storm.
The French, however, were . ready to
receive us and there ensured such
butchery as never was seen in this
or any other war. A detachment of
French concealed among the trees
threw themselves on us.. They were
mostly turcos and zouaves, strong
devils against whom it is impossible
to fight. A zouave, with a gun, bay
onet fixed, is. the most infernal thing
that can be described.
"Savage cries of pain and of anger
resounded through the wood. A great
many men fell there and saturated
the ground with blood. Soon the
French artillery came into action and
its projectiles completed the work of
the bayonet. Our men beat a retreat
at full speed across the wood now in
flames. Those who had escaped thej
bayonet fell under the rain of bullets!
and lay burning in the thickets. Only
6660 men of my regiment returned. Of
the other only 11 came back, and of
the 71 survivors, all were more or
less grievously wounded.
"I followed the campaign in Man
churia, but I think in the course of
the, five first days of the battle of
the Marhe, more victims fell than
were counted in the battles of Mukden
and of Liao-Yang."
Another evidence of the murderous
character of the fighting in this battle
is . furnished by a French soldier's
letter published by the Depeche. de
Toulouse. "We hava been fighting for
three weeks to the east of Verdun in
the rigion of the Tournon, Genicourt
and Saint Mediel forests," he wrote
"We advance, but very slowly be-
Bergen Op Zoom, Hdlland, Nov. 25
Conditions among the Belgian refug
ees crowded into this little city are
typical of the situation in all Duch
towns near the Belgian border. With
a population of 10,000 ordinarily, Ber
gen op Zoom now shelters about 20,
000 persons. Most of them were pen
niless, for the Belgians who had mon
ey went to London or some of the
large Dutch cities.
The burden of feeding the refugees
has fallen heavily upon the Dutch
goverameat-and the .various munici
palities which are doing their best
to make the homeless Belgians com
fortable Most of them have only the
clothes they are wearing and philan
thropic committees are prcviding un
derwear and endeavoring to supply
wormer garments for the peasants,
many of whom are lightly clad.'
Thousands of Belgians who were
unable to get into crowded trains
walked to Bergen op Zoom. Invalids
were brought on pushcarts. Some
of the refugees carried enlarged por
traits of relatives. Others carried
chairs. Frequently the women had
sewing machines on dogcarts together
with bundles of clothing tied in
sheets.
The Belgians and Hollanders living
near the border have a .common lan
guage and are similar in appearance.
Many wear the wooden shoes seen
so generally in Holland and the lit
tle girls have quaint white caps worn
on frames with wire curls that pro
ject in front of the ears. The peasant
men also wear distinctive Femish cos
tumes, trousers extremely loose and
buttoned to a short-waisted shirt of
the same material.
Having no work or means of re
creation the refugees in Bergen op
Zoom gather about the railway station
where Dutch soldiers stand on guard
and keep the Belgians away from the
passages to and from the trains.
Refugees who have lost members
of their families have chalked notices
on the walls of stations in many of
the Dutch towns. Such signs as
"Jean Marie de Maries of Antwerp
went to Amsterdam on October 15" or
"will Marie de Maries of Antwerp
please write to her mother in care of
Roosendaal Relief Committee where
she is?" may be seen written on the
brick walls of railway buildings or
nosted in station windows. Relief
Mexico City, Nov. 25 mob form
ed in front of the National Palace
last night, marched to the arms and
ammunition stores and sacked them.
There was much, shooting, but the
casualties are reported as few.. The
police were powerless, being disarmed
by the mob. Later the mob began
looting pawnshops ad other estab
lishments. The trouble started at C
o'clock. Street cars were stopped, ex
cept for the Red Cross, which is car
ing for the wounded from the fight
ing around Tacubaya.
At 8 o'clock bodies of civilians and
former Federal soldiers formed, pa
raded the principal streets, and march
ed to police headquarters and the
and of contact with mines ' in the
European war, nothing has developed'
as yet which indicates any radical
change in battleship construction to
offer greater defense against ' under
water, attacks.
The p.roblems presented axe not
new. They have been studied by na
val constructors of every power since
the Russian-Japanese war when many
fine ships fell victim to mines and
torpedoes. Proposals of many sorts
have been discussed. Some have
been adapted; but the theory of wav-toms of battlecraft will be consider
ship building still clings to concen-jed in future. Heretofore constructors
tration of offensive power in terms j have relied almost wholly upon in
of larger guns, bigger of defensive j creasing numbers of watertight com
armor. j partments to keep torpedoed ships
The heavy losses sustained by the ' afloat. The loss of the British bat-
Another Mqrder Conspiracy
Mystery Confronts Police
of Gotham
POULTRY DEALER
HUNTED TO DEATH
become slow, heavy vessels of small
cruising radius and their usefulness
as instruments with which to strike
swift, terrible blows at distant points
before word of their coming had
gone out, would vanish. Cruisers
and swift merchant vessels would
take care only to keep out of range,
of their guns. The terrific power of
the modern dreadnaught would be a.
thing of the past.
It is not impossible, however, that
some degree of protection for the. bot-
Lurid Tale of the Unceasing
Work of Enemies and
Thugs in New York City
No Arrests as Yet.
British navy by submarine attacks
has brought up for renewed discus
sion the subject of armoring the bot
toms of war craft. Recent issues of
English service journals have noted
a plan to cover the entire bottom of
tleship Audacious, one of the most
modern fighting machines in the
world, has shed new light on the sub
ject. Details of that disaster are
lacking but many believe the Audac
ious ran into a mine which sent her
a battleship with four inches of armor ! to the bottom. Her compartments
plating. It was urged that the ex
periment -fca tried with an old shiu
which should be subjected to actual
test with the explosion against her
torpedoes. The ship also would be
driven into contact mines of various
types to determine their effect, it was
said.
American naval experts believe
there is little doubt of the result.
They say four inches of armor would
resist any known torpedo or mine
successfully. To equip a ship in that
way, however, the enormous weight
Brazilian- legation, where they were hull of the most powerful modern
armed. It is hoped this force event
ually will be able to , control the situa
tion. Washington Hears the News.
Washington, Nov. 2s. :lexico City
is behind a veil again today as far as
official dispatches on the situation
there is concerned. Tpe last advices
from Consul Sillimanl filed Monday
afternoon, .arrived laat5kist night.
They only; reporte'.meription of
communications between the capital
and Vera Cruz and north of Monterey
and Saltillo. On behalf of Provisional
President Gutierrez and the Aguas
Calienteg, convention, Enrique C. Llor
ente today expressed satisfaction at
the exacuation of Vera iuz. He
called the evacuation a splendid ex
ample of American altruism.
General Blanco left Mexico City at
3 o'clock yesterday morning and La
pata forces immediately took posses"
sion of the city. This was reported
in an official telegram to the State
Department this afternoon.
Blanco had repeatedly assured the
diplomatic corps that he wou'd not
evacuate the city.
Although communication with Mex
ico City is difficult officials here were
able to get in touch with their repre
sentatives in the capital. No disluib
ances are officially reported. Blanco
took all the rolling stock that could
be used in the transportation of nis
troops. Most of the wires to the out
side world have been cut.
Villa's troops are reported a few
miles north of Mexico City. Officials
here think a joint occupation oi the
capital wit the ZapataN forces is
likely, as there is said to be a com
plete understanding between the two
factions.
Villa's forces, according to official
telegrams, are closing in on Tampico
from San Luis Potosi. They have al
ready reached the Tampico oil fields.
Villaa's advance guard has given as
surances that the oil men will be
protected.
Recent reports from State Depart
ment agents, who have been in touch
with Zapata, led officials to believe
Zapata will keep order.
kept her afloat until her crew was
rescued; but one by one they gave
way ' under the increasing pressure
of the water and finally she went
down.
Naval officers are unwilling as yet
to predict what effect on naval con
struction that will have. They say
it is a question of balance between
offense and defense in battleship con
struction and the old axiom that the
greatest defense lies in the highest
capacity for offensive work still holds
good. It appears certain, however,
that in planning new ships, the sub-
of the armor would. jLeduireua rednc-4 jecL of armpied bottom, or , at least
tipn in weight elsewhere and tM "6ill5r partial armor for the midships sec
way it could be accomplished would tions of the bottom, will be carefully
be to reduce the size and number of weighed.
the enemy's ships did cause the "boches" (Germans) are committees in all the towns are flood-
('eat their expedition against
f('ast of Northern France.
Tlle situation in the western war
0:itn' 's unchanged. We made slight
"ross in Arras,
hi friht Prussia our troops re-
' all Russian attacks,
"llt"r offensive of the
""in the
and
rs.....
strongly entrenched. For ten days
we occupied trenches only 400 yards
from theirs, and they did all that was
humanly possible to break through.
They charged as many as ten times
a day and at night they tried to ap
proach by creeping along the ground.
But all their assaults were repelled
with great slaughter; 3,000 German
ii-z-ziny, they failed. In the i bodies were left in front of our
In the
Russians,
section of Lowicz, Strykow
'A II l i ri r-t oil Dncei4n a
nil'ts also broke down before our
font."
i no Hr
of t
lf hstag has received a draft
C AIHr,i,, ,. , - . t 51
I,, , "itipic'iiieniary imperial
' 'set for i;,i4. it empowers the" Im
'dl Hianccllor for meeting extraor
ry expenses to raise five billion
,arks : I he form of credit.
Russians Check Germans.
Xcv. 25. The Russian
. against the Germans is hold-
last '.r-nrr1 ; a. - . . r,
for iuniK 10 irustwormy m-
The
lfl!1 i .. . ....
Fhu nere loaay.
""HIS
11(1 assuming the offensive
on ii...
iman right. The German
ha fro,,, Wielun, south of Warta,
'"'mi checked, after several fight-
(f'rmans are said to be
Uieon heuvy ifiinforcements
'n Xll"la and Warthe.
be-
w "Aery
Cars to the Beach
LITTLE ROCK
IS NO LONGER
MENACED BY
THE FIRES
FRENCH SHIP
But
Other Towns Are In
Danger From
Flames.
WAS SUNK BY
TORPEDO
New York, Nov, 25 The assassina
tion of Barnett Baff, a wealthy inde
pendent poultry dealer, is character
ized by Coroner Weinberg as the
culmination of the greatest conspiracy
since the Rosenthal murder. Clues
point in many. ways.
Baff was lured to his death by a
decoy message given him at 6 o'clock
last night by a young man, who en
tered his business place in Washing
ton Market. Two shots, fired from
the street, killed him and two men
darted to a waiting automobile and
made off. The car has not been locat
edj and the men are unidentified.
Detectives learned that Baff was
threatened with death many times,
since he testified for the State at the
trial which sent members of the New
York poultry trust to jail several
years ago. In a campaign by enemies
fires have been lighted, bombs ex
ploded,,' his horses poisoned, his son '
attacked, and his chain of stores rob
bed. One of the neighbors was
killed - by a gunman in mistake for
Baff it is believedt -Baff himself , was
scarred for lifV by a a thug, armert
with a bottle. The police believe Baff
had four sets of enemies. Those he.
made by warring on the poultry trust ;
the gang which robbed the market,
five of whom were sent to Sing Sing;
the third grew out of differences with
certain wholesalers; and the fourth
Hwho blamed Baff for siezure of a num
ber of fowls because it was charged
the crops were filled with gravel to
add weight.
LOSS IS VERY" HEAVY
Dstructior Done By; Forest Fires
Will Mount Into Millions-r-Okla-homa
Town In Peril.
British Admiralty Claims
Work Was That Of
Submarine
MANY LIVES LOST
NEW LAND COMPANY
FOR WILMINGTON
Chartered by State Today
For Wilmington
People.
is anxiously awaited today from the
town of Woods, in the fire swept dis-
Later word came that telegraphic trict of southeast Oklahoma. A mes-
communication had been interrupted
south of Juarez, cutting the commun-
trenches.
"After every repulse each of our
men grabbled two or three mausers
with ammunition from the bodies or,
the dead and stood them alongside
in the trenches, antl when the enemy
came back he was received by fire
from his own weapons.
"To guard against surprise at night
we took all the empty beef cans, tied
them to a cord and piled them so
that when the Germans came creep
ing toward our lines and the cord was
touched, they made enough noise to
give the alarm. One night when the
cans rattled, we replied with immed
iate volleys and. there was no mora
disturbance that night. In the morn
ing we counted five hundred dead
Germans lying on the ground within
a hundred yards of the trenches.
ed with letters from persons seeking
lost relatives
. The same refugees may be seen in
six different Belgian and Dutch towns
within a week. They walk or ride as
they may, constantly searching for
lost members of their families, eager
ly seeking the lists of various relief
committees for traces of missing rel
atives or friends.
There are many blind peYsons in
the throngs Some are without friends
or relatives to lead them, but good
Samaritans always seem to lend a
hand. The kindly natures of the peo
ple are plainly shown in the present
crisis. Heavy as the burden is upon
Holland there is little disposition on
the part of the Dutch to urge the Bel
gians unduly to return to their own
country;'-
ication from Washington with Con
sular Agents Canova, at Aguas Calien
tes, and Carothers, with Villa.
Fast Approaching Home.
Galveston, Texas, Nov. 25. A wire
less has reported the transport squad
ron, bearing the expeditionary force
home from Vera Cruz, as two hundred
miles off. the Galveston bar and due
here tomorrow.
Special to The Dispatch.
Raleigh, N. C, Nov. 25. The Board
of .Public Buildings and Grounds,
owing to the absence of the Attorney
General, did not meet today to take
up the capitol ' square path question.
Chief Justice Clark told the Board he
Steamer Admiral Ganteaume Had Big 1 tl . . . . .
Cargo of Refugees Aboard Two , The City and SuburDan Land Corn
Score Went to Watery Grave. pany, of Wilmington, was chartered
j today, with ten thousand authorized
' and two thousand subscribed by Wil-
25 The French1 liam L Baxter M- C; Hammond and
otners.
Governor Craig today granted a par--don
to Robert Goodman, an eighteen
Muskogee, Okla.i, Nov. 25. News J London, Nov.
steamer, Admiral Ganteaume, sunk
October 26th while on her way from
Calais to Havre, with two thousand
refugees, was sunk by a German tor-
sage at midnight from the telegraph pedo, according to an admiralty state
operator of the Pipe Line Company t ment. issued today. It is stated ex
o o in tno winH had drivpn i amination revealed fragment of a tor-
the flames from burning forests to
ward the town. The wireless there
failed, and further information was un
obtainable. The telegraph system
of the Pipe Line Company was the
only means of communication With
the Kiamichi Mountain region, where
fires have been burning for three
days. At the last word the fires were
four miles from the woods.
The Kiamichi river, Is thirty feet
wide, and the only possible protec-
woov n 9k T,roc. i tion. Pipe line employes has-
ident Wilson is speeding on his way tily organized and sent cut timber in
today to Williamstown. Mass., to lu u UL "c
WILSON TO SPEND
DAY WITH DAUGHTER
A VIRGINIA COLLEGE
GOES UP IN FLAMES
Abingdon, Va., Nov. 25. Stonewall
Jackson Institute, said to be one of the
oldest Presbyterian Female Colleges
in the South, was destroyed by fire
here early today. The students and
rate the first anniersary of
spend Thanksgiving with his daugh
ter, Mrs. Francis B. Sayre He de
parted shortly after midnight and is
scheduled to reach Williamstown in
time to attend the dinner to commemo
rate of the first anniversary of his
daughters marriage.
UNCLE SAM ASKS
TURKEY TO ANSWER
pedo in a life boat. Only forty lives I
were lost.
Most persons aboard were saved by
the channel steamer, Queen. It was
first thought the Admiral Ganteaume,
struck a mine. The Admiralty, with
the statement, furnished a picture of
the torpedo fragment, adding that this
proves conclusively the vessel was
torpedoed by a German submarine.
year old boy, convicted two years ago
in Cabarrus county of manslaughter,
and sentenced to three and a half
years. " The boy was injured by light
ning and a runaway since going to the
prison.
Isiah Down, another Cabarrus man,
was pardoned for manslaughter, after
having served four years of a six-year
sentence. He was playing with an old
pistol and killed the deceased. There
was "no malice.
The State Board of Elections met
today and organized. It will count the
vote in the last elections ,,!.,.
COST OVER EIGHT
CENTS RAISE COTTON
Washington, Nov. 25. The cost of
producing cotton averages eight and
twenty-four one-hundredths cents per
pound or $20.35 per acre, according
to Assistant Chief Murray, of the Fed
eral crop estimate bureau, in a re
Washington, Nov. 25. The Unit
ed States is asking Turkey about
his. reported action of the Porte in re-
ot ' Q-Panft Fear river at personal . belongings were lost. The fusing transmission of code dis-
Stage or wftwrjin.wo - - - -.i l0ssn" estimated at $125,000, partly itches between neutral diplomats t
, Constantinople, .-'--'
'' I'alf hour tomorrow-2 to 6 Fayetteville, N,-"C. at 8 a. nr. ye.ter- oss , u-umaiea ar-,i-
dvorti.emcn. - day, 4.6 feet, w - -Jln8ur?dy; , ; r. V .
yards from the river there, are tanks
of thirty-five thousand barrels. Of oil.
Nearby is a four hundred thousand
dollar plant, and the town buildings.
Fear Is Over.
t TO Vr A .b- Mnw HHroa '
which have been burning on three ort Pushed today.
sides of Little Rock at -a distance of
two to ten miles, subsided in inten
sity today and the apprehension "felt
yesterday has been allayed. Lumber
and timber men declare accurate es
timate of losses is impossible, but will
run into millions. v.
Cars to the Beach r.
- Every half hour ; tomorrow to 5
P.M. Advertisement. ' v-k
- Canadian Railway Board Tour.
Calgary, Nov. ; 25. Assistant Com
missioner D'Arcy Scott and Commis
sioner A. S. Goodeve, representing the
Board of Railway Commissioners have
reached Calgary on their tour of west
ern Canada, and will tomorrow hold
a hearing in this city. The Commis
sioners left-Ottawa Nov. 12, and their
tour will not end before Christmas.
INDIAN MAY MARRY
EX-BOSS OFfAMMANY
New York, Nov. 25. Interviewers
today sought to see Miss Beulah Ben
ton Edmondson, a descendant of a
Cherokee Indian chieftain, to ascer
tain from her the truth of published
reports that she was to become the
bride of Richard Croker, the former
Tammany leader, tomorrow. She de
nied herself to callers. Croker is
seventy-one years of age and a
widower.
Suit Started Today. Suit was en-i i
tered in Superior Court this morning
by Pearsall & Co. against Jas. W.
Murrell and W. W. Murrell, of Meck
lenburg county. J. O. Carr, Esq., rep ' -:;
resents the plaintiff. . ;v :
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