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Sir John French Says Scarcity of Ammunition in Germany Will Soon End War

HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH

LXXXIV— No. 67

Clff TO Bllf THREE

ACRE TRACT 111 WEST

END FOR OLOYGROU!

Taylor Completes Negotiations For

Purchase of Old Polyclinic Hos

pital Site For $27,000

ORDINANCE OFFERED TODAY

Deal Will Provide Second Perma

nent Recreation Place Bought

by Park Superintendent

Negotiations have been completed

bv Commissioner M. Harvey Taylor,

superintendent of parks and public

property, for the purchase of Harrls

burg'a second permanent playground

—a three-acre tract in the West End.

An ordinance authorizing the pur

chase was offered on lirst reading in

City Council this afternoon by Com

missioner Taylor.

The tract has a frontage of 405 feet

in Fourth and Fifth streets and 300

feet in Emerald street and will cost

$2 7,000. Mr. Taylor will buy the prop

erty from Jonn Orr, who. It is un

derstood, bought the ground some time

ago In parthersnlp with Redseker

Brinser, proprietor of the Harrisburg

News Agency, The plot was formerly

owned by the Polyclinic Hospital.

The ground is admirably adapted

for playground purposes and is so sit

uated as to be conveniently accessible

to the hosts of children who live in

that rapidly growing section.

Work of preparing the playground

lor use this summer will be started

lust as soon as the ordinance presented

this afternoon becomes a law.

By acquiring the West End play

ground Mr. Taylor has provided from

the SIOO,OOO nark and playground

loan at his disposal two permanent

recreation places for the children in

opposite ends of the city. He bought

a tract from the McCormick estate —

the new Thirteenth and Sycamore

playground—last summer.

Another tract in addition to the

old Polyclinic site had been under

consideration by Mr. Taylor for an

upper end playground, but the price,

$45,000, was considered too high.

Post Office Extension

I Indefinitely Held Up

Postmaster Frank C. Sites has no

information as to when work will bo

resumed on the Ilarrisburg Post Office

extension, which was interrupted last

month by the failure of the con

tractors. He was told by an inspector

of the supervising architect's depart

ment at Washington who visited the

city several days ago that no arrange

ments have been made for a new

contract.

The recent failure of J. h. Pennock,

under whom the work was being

done by contract and subcontract,

ts said to have tangled up federal

red tape considerably. The con

tinuation of the job is further compli

cated by the additional appropriation

of $75,000 for the work which was

passed by Congress after the original

appropriation of $125,000 had been

given to the Pennock firm.

"Lincoln" Not Permitted

to Pose in White House

Sfecial to The Telegraph

Washington, March 23.—A moving

ly ictu re machine was unlimbered in

iront of the White House to-day just

us a tall, elderly looking man, dressed

in the attire of a half centurv ago

walked under the porte cochere of

the mansion. The elderlv looking man

had a smooth upper lip and a short

beard. He wore a frock coat, tight

trousers that were a trifle short and

over his shoulders was a thick gray

shawl. A black beaver hat topped

hts head. The man was accompanied

by a small boy, wearing the dreis of

t he Civil War period.

The policeman on duty at the White

House entrance gasped. The resembl

ance of the visitor to Abraham Lin

coln was startling. Then the movlne

pieture machine began to click and

the policeman saw a light.

"Shoo!" he cried.

He made the operator stop turnin"

the crank and told the bonis Lincoln

to go away.

"It's ;igainst the regulations," ex

plained the policeman, and no amount

of persuasion could make him relent.

FII'TTV Slil5UI»I\G MIXERS

KIi.MID BY' S\O\YSI,II)K

Special t<> The Telegraph

Vancouver, B. C„ March 23.—Fifty

miners were killed and as many more

njured early to-day by a snowslide

which swept away several bunkhouses

nt tiio Britannia coal mine at Howe

Sound. B. C„ according to a dispatch

received here.

1 THE WEATHER

For TlnrrlNliarK iaiid vldnltyt Fair

'o-nlnlil and Weilnemlaj} not

•miWt cliiiiikc In temperature.

For r.uMtcrn IVnnn.vl vnnln: <;rnrr

nlly fnlr to-nltflit nml Wcilnem

«l*y: moderate north™ e*t wlntiN

becoming variable.

River

J\o material chanjccn will occur in

river to-night or IYe«lne«.

. ?'• .. * M<n Ke of about 1.l feet

U Indicated for llarrlMburg Wcd

neHday morning.

CJ«*neral Condltloim

•An area of lon barometric prcMMiire

of flight energy over the north

eantern part of the «»ountry haa

(•aimed unnettled weather gener

ally eaat of the Ml*mlnml|»pl river

during the laat twenty-four hour*

with light precipitation, moMtly

anotv fn northern, ft now and rain

In central and rain lu aouthern

dlatrleta.

Temperaturei * a. m. t 38.

Sun: Risen, OiOft a. m.t aeta v 6ilf)

p. vn.

'loom Full moon, March 31, 12,38

n. an.

Rlvrr 4.3 feet above low

rrnter mark.

Yeater<ln>'a Weather

Hlffheat temperature, :<ii,

I.nvreat temperature, S3.

Mean temperature, .11.

ftormal temperature, to.

STATE TROOPER IS

IK SOLVING LITEST

PERRY CO. MTSTEB*

District Attorney Rice and Police

man Davies Are Investigating

Tragedy

SUICIDE THEORY FLOUTED

Robbery May Be Fixed as Motive j

For Crime If Murder Can

Be Proved

i

Special to The Telegraph

New Bloomfield, Pa., March 23. I

District Attorney Walter W. Rice until

State Policeman Curtis E. Davies are

to-day engaged in an investigation and |

hope that within the next few days

they will be able to state definitely the

facts surrounding the death of Clinton

D. Bixler. portions of whose body were

found after the ruins of his home

cooled yesterday.

Bixler, who resided alone about

eight miles rast of Blain, was last seen [

Saturday, an# nis death and the de-1

struetion of his home by fire have

proven a mystery which Perry county

authorities hope to unravel.

Kept Money in House?

District Attorney Rice said here this

morning that be was at a loss to ac

count for the man's death. From the

few facta he now has at hand lie says

he could not form a conclusion as to

whether the man was burned to death

while he slept, whether he was mur

dered or committed suicide. From

various sources the report that Bixler

was known to have kept goodly sums

of money in his house seems to be

substantiated. When t this becomes

known authoritatively to the lnvestiva

tors the belief Is prevalent that they

will have a clue upon which to work

and that robbery will be fixed as the

motive of the crime if it can be proven

crime was committed.

Suicide Theory Flouted

There are few persons in the vicin

ity of the Bixler home who are willing

to say that the old man committed sui

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NO ACTION TODAY ON

LOCAL OPTION BILL

Meeting Scheduled For This After

noon Deferred on Account

of Other Hearings

No action will be taken by the House

law and order committee to-day on

fixing- a date for a hearing or a time

to report out the Williams local op

tion bill. The meeting scheduled for

this afternoon has been deferred until

to-morrow owing to the big hearings

scheduled for to-day on workmen's

compensation, full crew repealer and

taxation bills

Governor Brumbaugh, who last

night discussed the local option, com

pensation and child labor bills with the

Republican platform committee, con

tinued his work in behalf of local op*,

tion to-day. Dast night Senator Wil

liam E. Crow, Republican State chair

man, set forth the idea that mem

bers should vote as the majority of

their constituents desired, a proposi

tion not in accord with the Governor's

recent interview in which be said that

legislators should consider measures

from a State-wide standpoint. The

most significant thing about the con

ference was the silence of Senator E.

[I!. Vare, of' Philadelphia, who is re

ported as likely to turn in favor of lo

| cal option.

The Governor saw Senators Vare and

McNiehol this morning and discussed

|the situation • with them, but no one

\wmld make any statements as to what

I occurred. It Is generally believed that

until the local option, compensation

and child labor bills aro out o£ the

way the Senate will not act on any

recess appointments and the Governor

will send in only those which must he

: made.

Representative McKay, of Crawford,

who announced last night that he

would introduce a resolution to make

an investigation of activity of liquor

interests in campaigns, failed to do so.

Rumors f were rife that if he did the

! inquiry would be extended lo the

| Democratic campaign and the Anti

| Saloon League. McKay is a Demo-

I crat.

John A. Wallace, Twice

Postmaster at Chester,

Dies After Long Illness

B.v Associated Press

! Chester, Pa., March 23.—John A.

; Wallace, who, with Senator William C.

| Sproul and Charles R. Long, owned

[the Chester Times and the Morning

I Republican of Chester, and who was

'twice postmaster of Chester and one

of Its most prominent citizens, died

! to-day. Mr. Wallace who was 73

years old, had been ill for more than

a year. He had been taken to Flori

da this winter with the hope that the

mild climate would speed his recovery,

1 but recently his condition became so

grave that he insisted on being

brought home.

A. D. LUNOY DROPS DEAD

fly Associated Press

Wllliamsport, Pa., March 2i. —A. D.

Dundy, state agent for a number of

insurance companies, dropped dead

to-day at Eldred, Pa., while on a

| business trip. He was 79 years old.

SHEET IRON MILX.S TO OPEN

Youngstown, Ohio, March 23.—Sheet

Iron manufacturers whose plants have

been Idle under a truce with employes

to-day announced that mills would

resume operations next Monday.

COIiDEGE PRESIDENT DIES

Elmlra, N. Y.. March 23.—The Rev.

Alexander Cameron Mackenzie. D. D.,

president of Elmlra Collego, died to

day.

HARRISBURG. PA., TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 23, 1915.

ITALY MAY FIGHT TO RECOVER TRENT AND ISTRIA

i

| S " * i~A~

'I ills map shows 1 lie parts of the Austrian Empire—Trent and Istria- which Jlaly is believed to demand

as her price for keeping out of a war against Franz Joseph. The whole Italian population, according to reports

from Rome, seems to be forcing the government to action.

Roughly speaking. Italy desires a sweep of territory to the north and east which would extend her boundary

around the northern end of the Adriatic Sea as far south as Flume, on the eastern coast. This would include

the Austrian naval base at Pola, as well as the Provinces of Trent and Trieste, acquisition of which has been

Italy's long-cherished aspiration. The concessions which Austria is believed to be willing to make are insigni

ficant as compared with the demands.

It is regarded ns probable that, under pressure from Germany the negotiations may be extended and

Austria may be induced to grant larger concessions than she. now is willing to consider, but the belief fs

generally i.ild in responsible quarters that the extreme Austrian concessions would be insufficient to satisfy

Italy.

The demands of Italy, as outlined to-day. are set forth as follows:

To the north she desires the entire Province of Trent, bringing her frontier to Venoste, Passirie, and

Breonie. including the districts of Roveredo, Trente, Hozen Meran, Bresanone, and Bruneck. To the east she

desires to extend her frontier to the Julian Alps, including the Provinces of Goritz and Istria, with the districts

Tolniein, Goritz, Trieste, Pola and Hume. In addition to this she desire the Dalmatian Islands, especially Veg

lia, Cherso, Lunga, Brazza, Lesipa, Curzola, Melcda and Lissa.

HUNDREDS WORK FDD

FULL CREW REPEAL

Hearing Before Joint Legislative

Committee Attracts Prominent

Businessmen

A host of men, working for the re

peal of the full crew law, were In Har

risburg to-day. They came from all

parts of the State, and included busi

ness, professional, and railroad men.

Every train reaching Harrisburg sof

ter 8 o'clock this morning, on both the

Pennsylvania and Heading lines had

from two to five extra cars.

Those visitors came to attend the

hearing before the joint committee of

the Legislature on the full crew law

repeal bill. The hearing took place

in the Senate caucus room this after

noon at 3 o'clock. Previous to tha

hearing several hundred of the visi

tors called on Superintendent William

B. McCaleb, of the Philadelphia divi

sion of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Railroad men gathered at the Harris

burg Hoard of Trade rooms for an »n

--' formal conference at T1 o'clock.

Many Businessmen

Many of the most influential busi

nessmen of Pennsylvania appeared at

the hearing. Among them were Alba

[Continued on Page ".]

Paul Windlebleck Dies

of Lockjaw at Jonestown

Special to Tht Telenrapli

Lebanon, March 23.—Paul Windle

bleck. son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas

Windlebleck, of Johnstown, died on

Monday, in great agony, from the ef

fects of tetanus, boy had helped

to dig garden last' Tuesday, and while

thus engaged, a rusty wire nail pierced

his shoe and wounded his foot. As the

wound did not give him much pain he

ignored it until Sunday '.vlien the pain

became great. The boy was 12 years

old and was a member of a family of

: sixteen children, two of whom died

several years ago, and thirteen of

whom survive him.

Germany Mourns Loss

of Przemysl Fortress

By Associated Press

Berlin, via London. March 23, 11.19

A. M.—The press of the German capi

tal unites in paying tribute to the de

fenders of Przemysl. who, it is de

clared. only hunger could subdue. At

the same time there is no disposition

to make light of the defeat.

CHICKENS RAISE COIN

FOR ORPHANS' HOMK

By Associated Press

Sunbury, Pa., March 23.—Shy of the

ready cash needed for church work,

the members of the congregation and

Sunday school of the Trinity Lutheran

Church at Danville yesterday called

on their chickens to produce. The re

sult was a donation of 90 dozen eggs

for the Good Shepherd Orphans' home

at Allentown, Pa.

DR. SPARKS WILL SPEAK AT

ACADEMY COMMENCEMENT

Dr. Edwin E. Sparks, president of

Pennsylvania State College, will be the

principal speaker at the commence

ment exercises of the Harrisburg

Academy on June 3, in the Majestic

theater, at 10 o'clock In the morning.

Dr. Sparks is well known in this city.

WIFE OF MORMON HEAD DIES

By Associated Press

Salt Lake City, Utah, March 23.

Mrs. Sarah Ellen Richards Smith, wife

of President Joseph F. Smith, of\the

Mormon Church, died yesterday. She

was born in this city In 1850.

HARRISBURG LOSES

METHODIST PASTORS

Revs. B. H. Hart and John H.

Daugherty Transferred to

Other Charges

By Associated Press

Sliamokin, Pa., March 23. —The Cen

tral Pennsylvania Conference of the

Methodist Episoepal Church adjourn

ed at noon to-day after the announce

ment of the appointments of clergy

men for the coming year.

Following is a list of the changes:

Altoona District

District superintendent, Simpson B;

Evans.

Altoona, Grace. David D. Huffman.

Fairview, Joseph 15. Bremell.

Fifth Avenue, Fletcher W. Biddle.

First Church, Edgar E. Ileckman.

Juniata. Alex. I.amberson; Juniata

Circuit, John E. Lepage.

Clearfield, Trinity, Henry R. Ben

der and Albert V. Brown; Westside, J.

W. Long.

Hastings, Isaac Cadnian.

I Milesburg and Unionville, William A.

I Lopley.

! Patton, Bert A. Salter.

| Phillipsburg, Charles X. Wasson.

j Port Matilda, J. Earl Jacobs.

Sandy Ridge and Clearfield, George

|H. Knox, supply.

| Shawviile, David J. Brum, supply.

Wallaceton, Omer H. Poulson.

Danville District

Danville district, Superintendent

James B. Stein.

Calvary, Thomas F. Ripple.

Bloomsliurg, Alfred L. Miller.

Catawissa circuit. John H. Greena

walt.

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Fills Her Skirt With

Stones, Then Drowns Self

in the Opequon Creek

Special lo The Telegraph

Hagerstown, March 23.—Mak

ing a pocket in ner skirt and filling

it with stones, Miss Mary Maud Betz,

aged 32, drawing 'nstructor in the

public schools at Martin.iburg, jumped

into the. Opequon creek and was

drowned. Her body was found by a

boy after a search. Miss Betz was ill.

Calder Post to Receive

Maine Memorial Tablet

l

The first entertainment and patrio

tic educational historical review of a

serieu will be given in the courthouse

Thursday evening at 8 o'clock under

the auspices of Captain Howard . L.

Calder Post No. 31, American Veterans

of Foreign Service. Among the speak

ers will be Senator E. E. lieidleman.

The Maine memorial tablet, recent

ly awarded Calder Post by the United

States government will be formally

presented by Congressman Aaron .S.

Kreider and stereopticon views of the

Philippines will be lectured upon by-

Edward 1.. Wagner, late of the United

States marine corps.

Grand Army of the Republic Posts.

United Spanish War Veterans and

Sons of Veterans will attend in bodies,

and veterans of the Cuba, Porto Rico,

Philippine and China wars will attend.

The committee consists of John M.

Major, H. L. McLaughlin, Jonas K.

Relst, Samuel Forbes and R. L. Lan

dis.

REMOVE PORTION OF BRAIN

By Associated Press

Paris, March 23, 4.50 A. M.—An

operation performed by Dr. Gulnen by '

which a part of a wounded soldier's 1

brain was removed without the patient l

suffering serious consequences was de- I

scribed before the Academy of Sciences'

last night by Dr. Lavaraln. I

'ACQUIRES TWO MORE |

i TRACTS FOR PARKWAY,

I

Deals For Purchase of Enders and 1

Paxtang Cemetery Acreages

Concluded by Park Board

Two more links in the unacquired

parkway chain between Perrv street

i and Reservoir park—the A. E. lend

ers tract ol" two and a quarter acres

and the Paxtang Cemetery Association

tract of twelve acres—liave been pur

chased by City Commissioner M. Har

vey Taylor, superintendent of -parks

and public property at a total cost of

■' $4,100.

Negoliations for these important

links have been under way for months

and the engineering force of the park

department has been busy for several

weeks surveying the lines for the

deeds and in otherwise getting the

necessary data in shape for the trans

■ fers. The department was compelled

to make all these records before the

negotiations could be closed.

The Enders tract cost SIBSO and the

Paxtang cemetery ground $2250. the

latter price is just half what had been

originally asked. With the exception

of the Helen Boyd Dull and the Pros

pect Hill cemetery tracts, the city's

: parkway chain all the way to Reser

voir is completed.

The parkway road that leads

through Cameron's lowlands will be

continued through the newly acquired

property so that a complete circle of

the city can be made by automobile.

Grading on the roadway will be start

ed as soon as the weather permits so

that it.is likely that autoists and other

tourists will be able to use the new

parkway drive by late Spring or early

summer.

| Relief Committee Sends

27,000 Articles Abroad

Eighty-four boxes of supplies con

taining more than 27,000 articles have

been shipped abroad by the Home and

] War Relief committee, through the

1 Red Cross and Foreign Relief divi

; sions during the past three months.

Practically every article excepting the

bandages and surgical supplier was

made by paid workers of this city who

' have drawn more than SB,OOO in

wages.

There remains but one more week

for this relief work. The last mate

rials will be issued to-morrow. They

; may be returned any time until April

1, when the Home and the Supplies di

visions close. The Rod Cross and the

Foreign divisions will remain open.

GREW BRAVE AT END

By Associated Press

Paris, March 23, 3.05 A. M.—Stand

, ing at sulute and shouting "vive la

France," the officers and crew of the

French battleship Houvet, sunk in the

• Dardanelles on March 18 went down

with their ship according to the Tene

, dos correspondent o fthe Athens Pat

• ris who describes the action in which

the Houvet and the Gauiois were en

gaged.

PARIS DEFENSES CRITICISED

By Associated Press

Paris, March 23, 4.45 A. M.—Georges

Clemence*u and other prominent writ

ers In the Paris press criticise the

aerial defenses of Paris. They declare

Zeppelins should not have been able

to reach Paris Sunday.

I,AST OHH) IX pi AN DIES

Toledo, Ohio, Inarch 23.—Mrs. Vic

toria Cadaract, aged 105, died last'

night in Ottawa county infirmary, near

| Oak Harbor. Mrs. Cadaract was a

Chippewa Indian and was the fast

known of the native Ohio Indians of

I the full blood. I

12 PAGES * POSTSCRIPT.

FRENCH BELIEVES WAR

WILL SOON END; ITALY

PREPARES FOR STRUGGLE

Arrangements Are Being Made For Women to Take

Places of Men in Mills If Italian Army Is Mobilized;

Unfavorable Weather Prevails at Dardanelles and

Allied Fleets Have Not Left Their Anchorages; Ger

mans Feel Lack of Ammunition

The opinion is expressed by Field '

Marshal Sir John French, commander

of the British forces In the field, that :

the war will not be of long duration. 1

In an interview with a French corre- i

spondont he says that Spring promises i

I well for the allies, and that he believes!

the Germans are feeling a lack of}'

ammunition.

Italy is preparing rapidly for what- j

ever may result from the negotiations :

with Austria, now represented as hav-|

ing reached an important stage. A

royal decree is soon to be signed es- j

tablishing rules designed to suppress:

spies. Women are to be put to work

in the places of men in case of the

mobilization of the army.

Weather Unfavorable

An official Russian communication

described the battle which preceded

the fall of Przemysl. It is said that

! the troops left the fortress to the east

! ward in a linal erCort to break through

! the Russian lines at any cost, but were

defeated quickly. Berlin newspapers

do not believe the Russian victory will

be of great influence on the campaign

as a whole, although the fall of the

city is described as a "painful blow"

to the Austrian-German right wing.

Unfavorable weather still prevailed

at the Dardanelles yesterday and no

further attacks on the Turkish fortifi

cations were attempted. The warships

ot the allied fleet did not leave their

anchorages.

The latest Russian invasion of Ger

many is said at Berlin to have met

with the same fate as its predecessors.

To-day's official German communica

tion contains the announcement that

the Russian forces which captured

! Memel. at the northern end of East

j Prussia, have been driven back and

Jthat German troops, pursuing them

■across the border, have captured the

1 Russian town of Krottingen. No con

firmation has been received from Rus

isinn sources.

I The Russians are still on the offen

sive In Northern Poland, but so far

as the day's dispatches show their at-

I tacks have been attended by no lm

j portant results. The German war of-

I flee asserts that the Russians have

INDEMNITY FOR McMANUS' FAMILY I

Washington, March 23.—Secretary Bryan announced to- I

day that regret for the killing of Jehn B. McManus, an i

American in Mexico City by 2,'apata forces has been express- '

ed on behalf of General Zapsia by General Palafax, in I

charge i loxico City, ai negotiations for paying in- 1

demnit} o he d««d man's fi .iily were progressing satis- '

factorily,

INCREASED RATES SUSPENDED

Washington, March 23.—Propoaad increases in ratas on '

live stoc from Buffalo, Pittsburgh and similar points to (

eastern terminals were suspended for investigation to-day J

by the Interstate Commerce Commission.

WILSON NOT TO INTERFERE HERE

Washington, March 23.—President Wilson has no in- j

tention of interfering in fractional differences between Dem-

I

ocrats in New York and Pennsylvania. He told callers to

day that he thought the people of each state were able to |

look after their owi affairs.

, . I

BLOWS OFF HEAD WITH GUN i

Gettysburg, Pa., March 23. This morning William '

Shultz,

from York Springs, committed suicide at hL home by shool-

ing himself. Shultz got up at the usual time and went to ■

the barn and fed tha stock. He them returned to the house j

and going to his bedroom secured a shotgun, which he tied '

to a bedpost, and using a string to pull the trigger, blew off |

the top of his head, dying instantly.

PETER KRA'CUS GUILTY '

Wilmington, Del., March 23.—The jury at 2.40 o'clock j

this afternoon, returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the

first degree against Peter Krakus, alias Melba, the murderer

of Policeman Francis X. Tierney, on March 6. /

MAN KILLS HIS THREE WIVES |

London, March 23, 2.18 P. M.—Charged with the mur-

der of three women, George Smith, in the Bow street court. (

to-day, heard Public Prosecutor Bedkin declare he had j

made away with three of his wivea, the crime in each case |

being committed shortly after he had married them. f

IU/UUUHUL UCLNbtS . '

I.eater E. llllner and Kllxnbeth Smith. city.

pillion 11. Kelly anil Corn >l. Hnohnmn. l.ehanon. ,

Stanley Hoy Miller and Krnta Kay Itaker, Mllleraburs. i '

been driven back in every instance.

Apart from a few small movements

such as have been In progress for sev

eral months, the initiative in Franco

and Belgium yesterday was left to the

airmen. Aviators of the allies attack

ed Ostend and German aeroplanes

'dropped bombs on Rhelms. The Qcr

] man statement says that a French

iaviator was shot down near Verdu,»

and that another French machine was

forced to descend near Frieburg.

Russ Expect Another Big

Battle With Austrians

London, March 23, 2.55 A. M.—Ac

cording to the Petrograd correspon

dent. of the Morning Post the Przeinysl

garrison opened negotiations for sur

sender on Saturday, but nothing came

of this. Then during the course of

the night of March 20-21 a sortie was

attempted. This was the last straw.

Throughout Sunday negotiations lor

terms proceeded and the surrender

was effected Monday morning. The gar

rison consisted of 100,000 men, this

correspondent says.

A Petrograd dispatch to the Daily

Telegraph says that simultaneously

with the capture of Memel, the Ger

mans were expelled from Tauroggea

and flung back to their frontier.

Information from an Austrian

source to the National Tidende of Oo

ipenhagen says the Russians are pre

paring for a violent offensive cam

paign in the Carpathians. They have

assembled 750,000 men for this pur

pose and will make an attempt to

break the Austrian line. A gigantic

battle is expectei". as Austria is bring

ing up all possible reinforcements to

meet the attack.

EPIDKMICS NOW I KAItHI)

Venice, March 23.—Reports receiv

ed here from A'ienna are to the effect

that with the approach of warmer

weather the Viennese authorities are

greatly alarmed oevr the prospect of

epidemics of cholera, typhus and

dysentery.