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GERMAN ATTACKS PROVE FUTILE Intra! Sitiatioi jtfoiif Angli-French Bat v tla Urn Remains Unchanged Despite Heavy Fighting GERMANS MEET RUSSIANS Fighting For Four Days Around Sol dau Between Kalaer'a And Ciir'a Force German pluck and determination waa marked to a high degree during the last week when, despite their many setbacks, they persisted In their attacks on the Anglo-French . lines. Each time they were repulsed. The Russian invasion of East Prus sia baa caused some alarm and divert ed the attention to that direction. For more than four days' hard fighting bas been reported around Solduu. The Australns havo also turned their forc es on the Russians north and east of Cracow, the Oaliclan capital which the czar's forces recently captured and burned. Despite the severity of the weather In all sections of Europe and In face of overwhelming obstacles the Germans have persisted In their at tacks on the allies, both to the east and west. Gradually, however, they have been beaten buck and have lost ground on both aides. On the Franco-Belgian frontier, the allies have driven them back across the Yser, and In the east they have been repulsed by the lnvad- Ing Russians, who now advise their War chiefs at Petrograd that they are withlng 189 miles of Berlin. It has been a week of German ad versitles. but the Teutonic spirit is in domltable and the kaiser's forces have shown the greatest contempt for death In their unsuccessful onslaughts made on the British and French. French successes have been reported south of Verdun. Russia's on-creeping ally, the Rus sian winter, has deterred activities in the European war zone and Is the first step to postpone the campaign tor several months until the opening of spring. The first check upon the various campaigns along the different battle lines since the opening of the war was marked by the blizzards which wept down from western Poland across the entire northern portion of the German empire and far Into Bel-' glum and northern France. The Russian army has been supplied with sheepskin jackets, the same as Introduced In Manchuria in the Jap anese war. Progress Is reported in the Invasion of Prussia, though Ber lin reports continue to be optimistic in this regard. German successes along the French frontier have been reported reversed, the kaiser's forces completely repulsed at Ypres, many points of vantage already taken from the allies are said to have been re gained by the French and British, and the French report the complete anni hilation of a German regiment south of Blxschoote. The kaiser is reported dissatisfied with the Austrian generals and Franz Joseph has consented to their removal and the substitution of German com manders. The house of commons bas granted Premier Asqulth another bit lion dollars and another million sol diers to continue the war. A report- of the Russians capture of Cracow, capital of Gallcla, is the only move ment of note since the advancement of winter. The allies are claiming to have again repulsed the Germans and driv en them back across the Yser. The London and Bordeaux war offices an nounce that the French and English troops are occupying advantageous po sitions on the left bank of the canal, from which the enemy for several days has put up a strong and vigorous de fense. While the Germans are conceded to have captured. Dlxmude, the. French and British declare that It is now only a village reduced to ruins and can in no way serve the enemy's in terests nor assist in any way in their plans to reach Dunkirk on the French coast. The British successes .with the French on the continent have been somewhat offset by the loss of the su perdreadnaught, Audacious, which struck a mine at Lough Swlllr, U.S. Asks Explanation Washington. The United States government has directed Ambassador Henry Morgunthau at Constantinople to ask an explanation, of the firing by Turkish land forces at a launch from the American cruiser Tennessee proceeding from Vourlah to the Amer ican consulate at Smyrna, Asia Minor. Secretary Daniels simultaneously ca bled the commanders of the Tennessee nd the cruiser North, Carolina, also in the Mediterranean, to take no action which might embarrass the American government. ' French Zouaves At Work Paris. The French Zouaves,- , who frequently have distinguished them selves by dashing charges, have been utilised again to dislodge the Germans .from a position near Blxschooto, over which there bas been much fighting, and, according to the French state ment, they again have been success ful. These incidents merely axe ex amples of what has been occurring in ' northern France. - First one side and then the other gains an advantage, but, when all Is told, the general slt- 1 nation remains about as it was. .' AN ORIENTAL REVISION chicaso oailv news. .'SiT' v German Attacks Fall London. The latest official commu nications regarding operations on the western battlefields are much the same as those of preceding days. There has been fighting virtually all along the front, but without apprecia te cnange in me situation. From the coast of Flanders to the river Lys, on the Franco-Belgian bor der, much of which has been flooded by the allies to hinder German at tacks there has been a repetition on a somewhat smaller scale of the bom bardment which the Invaders invaria bly resort to in the hope of breaking down the allies' resistance before the Infantry attacks and in isolated spots attacks in force, but according to the French and British reports, all these have been repulsed. The Anglo-French forces, which have been holding territory around Ypres, again have been subjected to deter mined attacks, fresh German troops having attempted to force the allies out of their trenches. As was the case with the Prussian Guard, the Germans, who made the latest effort, appear to have taken the first line of trenches, ' but, like the guards, were compelled to give back the ground after holding it for short time. Germans Encounter Russians Petrograd. The following official communication was issued from gen eral headquarters: Between the Vistula and Warta our advance guards in an engagement with the Germans, who took the of fensive, fell back in the directions of Bzoure. The enemy succeeded in gain. Ing a footing In the region of Lent- chitga (Lenczyca) and Orloff, throw ing out advance guards In the direc tion of Ptontek. "In East Prussia our troops contin ue to make progress and fighting is going on near the Gumbtnnen-Anger- burg front, which the enemy is de fending. In the trenches which we captured near Varschlaghen with enemy aban doned more than 300 dead. Among the officers whom we took prisoners here was an artillery officer sent to the infantry because of a lack of of ficers for that branch. Forced Wire Entanglements On the front along the Masurian lakes our troops reached the wire en tanglements of the enemy's position and forced them. On the front be tween Czenstochowa and Cracow we have attacked lmoortant forces of the enemy, detachments of which operat ing at Lodovitze, were routed. In Gallcla we have occupied suc cessively the passes over the Carpath ians. One German squadron of two cruis ers, ten torpedo boats and several oth er steamers appeared before Libau. The Germans bombarded the city and harbor, setting fire to several build ings. 'The same day, very early, the Rus sian black sea fleet, which had been cruising off Treblzond, steamed close to the town and bombarded the har bor and barracks and set on fire build ings along the coast. No Turkish ships were sighted off the coast" A dispatch received here from Mar- mernltzo, on the . Austro-Roumanian frontier, declares that furious fighting is going on In the northern part of the Crownland of Bukowlna. The Russian troops are described as victorious. As they advance the Austrlans are fleeing in great disorder. , Enormous War Cost London. David Lloyd-George, chan cellor of the exchequer, in the house of commons, estimated that one year of war would cost England 450,000,000 pounds ($2,250,000,000), : the largest amount Great Britain ever has spent. and more than twice what was spent in the tour years' conflict in South Africa. To pay this enormous bill the government has decided, he said, to raise a loan of 360,000,000 pounds (SL 760,004,000), which would be issued at 85, bear interest at the rate of 8 1-2 per cent and be redeemable at par Berlin Views Optimistic Berlin. A general review of the situ ation in the western arena, given out In Berlin, indicates that the latest German victories are such that the advance of the Russians has been ren dered mora difficult. This success, however, must not be overestimated, tor the Russian losses, although se vere, do not mean that the Russian movement has collapsed. Considering the enormous numbers of available soldiers it does not even mean the discontinuation of the Russian offensive. Big Battle At Soldau ' Paris. A dispatch received here from Petrograd by the Havas agency is as follows: "A terriflo battle of unexampled vlo lence bas been proceeding for four days around Soldau. The cannonad Ing has been maintained night and day. The Russians are endeavoring at any cost to avenge their check at Soldau, and are throwing themselves at the Germans with Indescribable fury. They have carried position af ter position by assault, in spite of the Infernal fire of the Germans. "The Germans are offering a most energetic resistance and their fight ing is alternately offensive and de fensive. "In spite of the torrential rains, which have turned the ground into a quagmire the Russians are advancing toward the interior of Germany. 'They have outraged ten big can non, none of them damaged." Allies Gain In West London. Undeterred by wintry weather and floods, the Germans are still striving to break down the allies' defense along the JTanco-Belglan fron tier. Although the Berlin official re port says It has been -quiet there has been an almost continuous artillery duel, with occasional infantry attacks, but apparently without either side making progress. The line front the coast to Nleuport, which has been receiving less atten tion since the Germans began trying to force the British out of Ypres, again has been subjected to a violent bom bardment.' South of Dlxmude the Ger mans have been trying, under Are from the allies' cannon, to build works to check the flood which compelled them to evacuate part of their trenches. At other points the big guns again have been busy, and Rheima has been subjected to another rain of shells. : From the allies' point of view, prob ably the most important operations or those south of Verdun, where the. French troops, for some .'. time, have been trying further to relieve the pressure which the Germans have been exerting on the fortress. They at last have succeeded, according to the French official communication, and be sides making some progress out the heights of the Meuse, have advanced on St, Mthiel, the only point on the left bank of the Meuse which the Germans have held. A month of futile fighting, entailing losses the extent of which perhaps never will be fully known, has not convinced German leaders that the French coast towns are unattainable;, and while snow and rain and wind and cold have, during the past few days, so tried the troops as markedly to reduce their fighting capacity, there is nothing to show that the In vaders will not try again. How valiantly the Germans have been meeting death in what to date has been a hopeless task is recounted by the British army's official eyewit ness at- the front, Cclonel Swinton, who, describing the recent fighting around Ypres,-ealdi r r-fr-; "Their dogged perseverance claims our whole-hearted admiration." This tribute was not qualified, as heretofore, by the query whether disci pline or sheer bravery prompted the men so to die for the troops referred to were the guard corps, the pick of the German army, which has, accord ing to Colonel Swinton, . retained the contempt for death which it showed in the Franco-Prussian war. : Pope Urges End Of War Rome. The pope caused to be pub lished his announced encyclical urg ing peace among the warring nations ot Europe.. In this document the pon tiff attributes the war to four causes, namely, lack of mutual and sincere love among men; contempt of author ity; Injustice on the part ot one class of the people against another, and the consideration of material welfare as the sole object of human activity. The encyclical begins by tracing a horri ble picture of the present war, calling upon the rulers to end the war. ' German Reports Optlmistio Berlin. An official announcement given out in Berlin says that the Ger man attacks in Flanders are progresu- Ing slowly, but In the Argonne the Germans have obtained further impor tant successes.' Continuing, it sets forth that German forces have repuls ed the enemy near Stallnpoenen, and also drove them back at Llpno: Five hundred prisoners were captured on ihe Vistula river. German forces have been successful at Wloclawek, where several Russian army corps were driv en back. r TV0 BIG BATTLES IK AUSTRO-QERMAN F0RCE8 MASS ED FOR ASSAULT OF RU8- 8IAN ARMY. I. ENGLAND FEARS GERMANY Should Germans Reach Coast England Will Have to Protect Her Bor . dor From Invasion. London. Two big battles, both of which may have decisive results, are raging in Poland, and a third of al most equal importance Is progressing in East Prussia. Of the three b&tttes that now at its heights between the Vistula and Warta Rivers and in which the Rus sians claim partial suocess, Is excit ing the most Interest. The Germans, It is believed, have brought by their line of strategic railways in Posen and Silesia at toast half a million men In an effort to break the Russian line here. Weather conditions, the frozen ground and the situation of the bat tlefield, favor a battle decisive to a degree not equalled on any other field In the present war. The other part in Poland is tak ing place on the Cracow-Czenstochowa front and Russians and Germans each claim it is proceeding satisfactorily. In East Prussia the Russian advance is moving slowly through the wild country, surrounding the Masurian Lakes. In Gallcla the Russians are moving westward and at the same time are seizing the passes of the Carpathians. '".-'.- There now is almost a complete absence of infantry attacks in the western arena, and the artillery fight ing is much less violent. All that region about Dlxmude through which the Yser Canal passes Is inundated and the only serious fighting appears to be taking place south of. Yser, where cannonading is In progress. Bad weather, which necessarily hampers operations, has been experi enced and snow has fallen in some places. There has been no Important action In the French -center, but In the Argonne region the Germans have made vigorous attacks, which the FrenchNsay were repulsed. On the French right wing the Germans have retaken Chauvoncourt part of which they destroyed a few days ago. . Ger man activity In the vicinity of Rhelms has slackened. Austria's advance into .Servia Is creating uneasiness In Bulgaria as to the future of the Balkan States. Whether Bulgaria should remain neu tral or throw In her lot with the Allies was discussed In the Sobranje. Lead ers of the Democratic party suggest ed that the Allies should be consulted to their intentions regarding the future of the Balkans. - Italy, too, has been affected by the Austrian advance and her ambassa dor sat the European capitals have been called home to confer with the cabinet. Marquis Imperial!. Italian ambassador to Great Britain,1 will leave for Rome. To prevent tea reaching Germany from England through neutral coun tries. Great Britain has prohibited its exportation to European countries ex cept .those of the Allies, Spain and Portugal. Since the outbreak of the war, tea exports to Holland have reached enormous proportions. .',.. The admiralty has taken further steps to protect east coast ports by the extension of the mine field. This seems to support rumors that a Ger man raid on the east coast lg ex pected. ; It Is generally believed here that It Germany is balked In other designs she will attempt to attack England no matter how ' desperate such an expedition is considered. Left Without Papers. Lima, Peru. The German steamer Luxor of the Kosmos line, with three thousands tone of cool on board, has suddenly left Coronel, Chile, without having received clearanc papers. The German steamer Memphis also has secretly left Bandy Point The Chil ean authorities have ordered the cap ture of the Luxor. - , Measures of Reprisal. i Venice, via Psrris. Vienna authori ties are adopting severe measures against English people remaining in that eity. During the past tew days many Britishers ' have been in terned and the roet, Irrespective of age or sex are forbidden to leave their homes between 8 o'clock in the even ing and 9 In the morning to visit cafes or other public places. An offi cial announcement says these steps have Ibeen taken "in view of the wretched situation of Austrains and Hungarians Interned. , Bombarded Khopa. , Petrograd. The following ofllclol communication from the headquarters ot the army of the Caucasus was Is sued: "Russian warships November 19 bombarded the port of Khopa, la Turkish Armenia, on the 'Black Sea, whence the Turks' were preparing an offensive movement In the direction of different passes Of the Zatcherekh region. - The port barracks and the custom .house were destroyed the am munition depot blown up and the place set afire." , . , SOUTH AND WEST JOIN TRADE PLAN WILL DEVELOP COMMERCIAL RE LATIONS WITH SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRIES. MEETING HELD IN MEMPHIS Corporation Propossd for Estsollsh nsnt of Regional Bank In South A ' merle By American Capital. Memphis, Tenn. Preliminary to an extensive campaign for the trade of Latin-America, merchants and man- ern States authorized the organization ufacturers of 17 Southern and West- of a banking corporation to promote an exchange of credit between the United States and South and Central America and the establishment of a co-operative trading company for the exchange of commodities. Other action taken at the final ses sion of the first International Trade Conference of the Mississippi Valley and Central West Included the fram inn of an aDDeal to the Federal Re serve Board to empower regional banks to establish branches In the Latin-American Republics; urging the establishment of modern terminals at all Important trading points along the Mississippi river and other inland waterways: the enactment by con gress of legislation to encourage the building of an American merchant marine and an appeal for more lib eral Federal appropriations for the improvement of the Mississippi river and Its tributaries. Details of the plans will be worked out by com m Wees to be appointed by the chairman of the conference, Ed ward E. Gore, of Chicago. The proposed bonking corporation will be financed by the merchants and manufacturers of the , Southern and Western States and Its energies will be devoted entirely to South and Central America and the West Indies. The amount of capital required will be determined by the executive com mittee which,' Mr. Gore announced, would be appointed within 10 days. No provision was made for another meeting of the Conference the resolu tions adopted empowering the exec utive committee which will be com posed of seven members to carry out the plans adopted by the conference, The speakers Included E. F. Sweet, assistant secretary of the Depart ment of Commerce; E. B. Pratt of the Federal Bureau of Domestic and Foreign Trade; Robert E. Patchin of New York, secretary of the National Foreign Trnde Council ; Prof. ' G. L. Swlggett of the University of Tennes see and W. L. Mapother, vice presi dent of the Louisville ft Nashville Railroad. : , DANIELS RECEIVED ME8SAGES. Warship Commanders Signify Re ceipt of Orders Only. Washington. Secretary Daniels re ceived messages from Captain Deck er of the cruiser Tennessee, and Cap tain Omar ot.the cruiser North Caro lina, Acknowledging receipt of order that no action be taken in Turkish waters without specific instructions, but neither commander supplied ad ditional details of the firing at the Tennessee a launch at Smyrna sev eral days ago. The state department Is still without advices from Ambas sador Morgenthau. . ; Secretary Daniels sold he thought Captain Decker probably was waiting to get into communication with Am- bosador Morgenthau before making a complete reporr. The state department officials esti mated that from past delays In mes sages from Constantinople they should hear from Ambassador Morgenthau soon and more complete description of the Incident was-expected from Captain Decker,, at about the same time,",- . ii is inougni proDaDie tnat as a result ot the mining of several Turk ish ports and the sensitiveness - of the Ottoman government to the near ness of foreign warships, the Ameri can crulers may be ordered to anchor off Chicos, Greece, where the Tennes see now is. The North Carolina is at Beirut, Asia Minor. Neither of the warships will be withdrawn from the western Medi terranean, it was stated at the navy department, no matter what is the outcome of the Smyrna Incident. It is thought advisable that they be kept within easy reach of Turkish ports to afford assistance to distressed Amer cans should emergencies arise. - Three Bodies Washed-Ashore. Marquette, Mich. Three bodies were washed ashore at Grand Morals, Mich., In a tangle of wreckage. ' Obregon Against Villa. Washington General Gutierrez, se lected provisional president by the Aguas Callentes convention, has de cided "to continue General Villa in command of all the trooDs emitmliyt by the convention. Villa has advanc ed to Irapoato without resistance and American consular agents say be will continue to Quertaxo and the vicinity of Mexico City without difficulty. General Obregon in the Mexican nni. tel. loyal to Carranza,' has formally aecrarra war on, Vttla, but his troops have been evacuating Mexico City. WHY CATCH LD One-half of the Death! id Two. thirds of the 8lsknV V Dl. mm Rmmitik m4 CtahlSa aA. Nothing eould be of greater vital interest to the family than to know how to avoid catching cold, . bULUS inAI FULL If It be true, as one famous doctor says, that catohlng cold oan be avoided, think what it means. ' Two thirds ot the sickness that now op- Serious interference with business. The anguish of anxious parents. The blasting of many brilliant dreams. All these things would be largely done away with if people knew how to avoid catching oold. Catching cold Is a very common experience in numerous households. People have oo me to believe that there is no way to avoid It ' CAN BE AVOIDED. People are taught in the "Ills of Life" bow to avoid the otaseless drain that catching cold makes upon the vital organs. . Get it and read It and judge for yourselves of Its value and practicability. It Is Issued by the Peruna Co.. of Columbus, Ohio. Tuft's rtlmuhst th torpid liver, strengthen the tjlffjitlv orv-iis, refulau the boweli, A rem edy lor tick bcadacha. Cnequaled u an ANTI-BILIOUS MEDICINE. Eletsntlr .ucv coated. Small dose. Pric, 2Sc. BALANCE KEPT BY NATURE Increase of the Human Race Seems tc Be Regulated by Wars and Other Devastations. Every year, according to scientists who attempt to keep the general rec ords, at least 80,000,000 human being are born on this earth and 60.000,000 or 70,000,000 die. This Indicates a dally birth rate of about 220,000 and a death rate of 180,000. The dally increase in population therefore Is about 40,000. The total population of the globe is estimated at 1,800,000,000. The ravages of war do little to im pede the increase-. Far more eltcctlya have been the upheavals of nature. The Franco-Prussian war killed about 130,000 in seven months. The death roll of the Russo-Japanese reached about 200,000. A single earthquake (1737, In India) has been estimated to have caused 300,000 deaths. The fa talities of the Messina earthquake in 1908 cannot have been far short of 100,000. A tidal wave in 1898 drowned 27,000 persons In Japan, causing a greater loss of life than the whole war with China in 1'894. The earth quake in Japan in 1703 is said to have killed 200,000 people. 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