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MT. VERNON, 0., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1915 No. 78

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FRENCH BREAK

Score Important Victory In The

Champagne District

British Take Offensive In Belgium

Oriving Germans Back

Paris, So,)t 27. After an unusually

heavy artillery preparation, the

French troops have broken the Ger

man line in theChampagnedlstrict on

a front of about liftccu mile, driving

back their opponents at most points

to their second lino positions, nearly

three miles to the rear. More than

16,000 prisoners have been captured

and a large amount of war material

taken.

At two other points on the long

front from tho North sea to Alsace

offensive movements have begun.

North ci Arras tho French, while not

gaining tne amount of territory cap

tured in Champagne, have taken at

tho point or tho bayonet several

strongly fortified positions in which

tho Germans have hold out for many

months, particularly the cemetery

and town of Souchcz, and important

earthworks noitheast of Neuville-St.

Vaast.i

In conjunction with these success

ful attacks the British under Sir

John French took the offensive east

of Vermclles and Grenay, south of

tbe La Bassee canal, and succeeded

in driving back the Germans on a

front of more than Ave miles, pene

trating his linos at some places (or a

distance of more than two miles. The

village of Loos was captured, while

the British reached the western out

skirts of the village of Hulluch, which

lies a short distance to the north.

Another and not less important of

fensive by the British was not so suc

cessful. This was a general attack

on tho German positions along tho

Ypres-Menin road. South of the road

tho British carried the German

trenches over a front of COO yards.

North of tho road the British cap

tured the Belle Waarde ridge, an Im

portant position, but were compelled

to give it up in the face of an un

usually stiong counter attack.

Beginning of Offensive.

The successful attacks by the

French forces are believed to be the

beginning of the general offensive so

long awaited. Military critics have

pointed out tha the artillery work

that has boon a feature of the war

office statements for the last three

weeks was in preparation for an im

portant movoment. Tho stiffening of

tho Russian defense within tho last

few days at a point where tho enor

mous German forces advancing Into

Russia wore far from their own rail

ways and the new Anglo-French of

fensive campaign aio taken hero to

mean that complete accord exists be

tween the commands of the allied

armies. Paris is unusually gay after

long weeks and months of anxious

waiting for good news from tho front.

The object of tho fighting in tho

Champagne region is the railway lino

running from Neufchatcl . through

Sommo by nnd north of tho Argonno

district to the town of Varennes. The

French are now only about two miles

MOURNED AS

Poughkeopsle, N. Y Sept. 27. An

drw O'Brien, fifty, a woll known resi

dent of this city, returned to Pough

keopsle after an absence of a week

to find that ho was being mourned as

a cuicldo and that prayers were boinc.

offored In St. Peter's church for the

rcpoao of his soul. When O'Brien nr

rived at the church there was con

etui uatiou among tho members of the

GERMAN

N

from this railroad anil once U is cap

turcd a general retreat in this region

will lie absolutely necessary. The

railway line runs along the rea'r of

tip entire Geinian positions north of

rthelms to the Argonno forest. Its

capture would also necessitate a re

treat on the part of the ciown

pi nce's army in the Argonne.

BERLIN ON OPERATIONS

Allies Failed to Attain Their Object

to Any Appreciable Extent.

Jjfrlin, Sept. 27. The Anglo-French

oficnbtve, for which preparations

bae been in progress for moutnb

past, lias so far failed to attain its

object to any appreciable degree, ae

loruing to tne official statement of op

erations on the western front Issued

here.

The enemy was successful only at

Loos, to the bouthwest of Lille, where

he drove one of the German divisions

from their first line trenches, causing

tile Germans severe losses in men

and material. The Germans took up

their positions on the second line of

defense, and a counter attack is now

progressing favorably.

The village of Souchez has been

evacuated voluntarily by the Ger

mans. British ships attempted to co

operate in the attack by shelling Ger

man positions on the coast, notably

at Ceebrugge, but without success.

The Anglo-French troops suffered

heavy losses at Ypres and gained no

t'dvantage, and were equally unsuc

cessful in numerous other, attacks

along the front, suffering very neavy

'.ot'ses.

HALF MILLION KILLED

Armenians Shot Down or Driven Into

the Desert to Die.

New York, Sept. 27. A preliminary

report of the committee of Armenian

societies asserts that it has evidence

which tends to show that probably

a half million Armenians have been

murdered since March or have been

driven Into the desert to die of star

vation and exposure unless speedy re

lief reaches them. The committee

was formed for the purpose of inves

tigating tho facts regarding the re-

orted massacre of non-Moslems in

Turkey and also to ascertain wheth

er anything can bo done to relieve

the situation. Tho statement inti

mates that the United States should

bring pressure to bear on Germany

und Austria to force Turkey to put

a btop to the massacie of Armenians.

! .

Woman Was a Cuban.

New York, Sept. 27. The woman

who was killed when the temporary

planking over the subway excavation

caved in Saturday night was identi

fied as Mrs. Estella Tomasolll of Ha

vana, Cuba. Mrs. Tomaselli usually

cpent the summer in this city while

her huBband, who is a civil engineer,

remained in Cuba.

DEAD

MAN TURNS UP ALIVE

congregation, and it was with great

difficulty that O'Brien couvlnced his

fi lends that bo was really allvo.

O'Brien was indignant whon ho learn

ed that the body of a man supposed

to be hlmsolf had been llshed out of

the Hudson river and that the body

was buried bosido that of Mru

O'Brlon In St. Petri's cemetery and

that tho headstone wa3 being carved.

FORD PREPARES FOR NATIONAL SERVICE

BY STUDYING OUR NEWEST SUBMARINE.

'MR .FORD DESCENDS INTO

Following his plan of lending his

inventive and mechanical ability to

the strengthening of America's naval

defenses, Henry Ford visited a sub

marine for the first time in his life

In the New York navy yard. Escort

ed by navy yard officers and officers

attached to the submarine flotilla of

the Atlantic fleet, Mr. Ford was tak-

AMBULANCE HIT BY AUTO

AN OCCUPANT KILLED

Columbus, Sept. 27. Abner Van

skiver, fifty-live, a farmer living in

Mochanicsburg, 0 sustained an In

jury that caused his death in a police

ambulance while ho was being rushed

to Grant hospital. Vansklver was ac

companying his young son, Robert,

aged four, who was 111, to the. hos

pital. The ambulance in which they

were riding was struck by a roadster,

driven by a negro, wlifl got away. The

impact shattered the wind shield of

the ambulance and the broken glass

flew in all dliections. A large ffiece

London, Sept. 27. The situation in

the Balkans and the Intentions of

Bulgaria arc still surrounded with

considerable mystery. Bulgaria, which

hnd lufn nlaced on the side of the

central powers as the result of recent

news from Sofia, nas ourcraiy imorui

cd the entente powers that mobiliza

tion has been ordered in the national

interests aud that It had not tho

slightest aggressive character.

Chicago, Sept. 27. Historic Uraco

Episcopal church, in South Wabash

avenue, was completely destroyed in

a fire, that did damage estimated nt

$500,000. The lire started In a sla

story building adjoining.

BALKAN

SITUATION

CHURCH

BURNED

SUBMAfeWE.

coi-rsticMT ev amuicah Rtii A&&ocivrior

en Into the newest and most up-to-

date of American submerslbles. Mr.

Ford went to the navy yard at the

invitation of Secretary of the Navy

Daniels, with whom he conferred In

Washington on matters pertaining to

the improvement of the navy, partic

ularly the submarine arm of the ser

vice. At the yard Mr. Ford was met

struck Mr. Vansklver on the left bide

of the throat, inflicting a six inch

gash and severing the jugular vein.

Mrs. Vanklver sustained slight in

lurles. Greece Fully Prepared.

Athens, Sept. 27. King Constan

tino held a decisive conference with

Premier Venlzelos and M. Dusmanls,

chief of staff. After the conference a

fctatement was issued to the effect

that Greece was fully prepared f.ox

any eventuality.

CHARGE OF

SMUOGLIN!

Toledo, Sept. 27 Charged with

unuggllng 00 or more Bulgarians

from Windsor to Detroit, thrn to To

ledo, Mike Tonoff, a Bulgarian, was

arrested here by government officers.

The arrest followed affidavits made

by some of tho men brought across.

OFFICIAL

Toledo, Sept. 27. John T. Kelly,

Democratic county clerk, and his for

mer deputy, S. P Petorman, Demo

crat, were indicted by the Lucas

county grand jury hero for alleged

jury frauds. Both were bold for open

Ir.f,' a jury bo wlhout air order from

tiro court. Kelly was also Indicted for

alleged embezzlement of $3,000 of

county funds.

INDICATED

MR.FOR.D and LIEUT. NIMITZ

by Rear Admiral N. R. Usher, the

commandant; Captain George E.

Burd, the yard manager; Naval Con

structor George H, Rock, Lieutenant

Commander R. P. Craft, Lieutenant

C. W. Nimltz of the submarine flotilla

and Commander Earl P. Jessup of

the navy yard staff.

LOSES LIFE

Princeton, N. J., Sept. 27. Heart

failure, superinduced by participation

in the annual class rush at Princeton

university caused the death of Stock

ton Wells, a freshman from Madison,

N. J. Physicians worked for an hour

and three-quarters In an effort to re

store conscioiibness before pronounc

rug him dead

TRAGEDY

Cleveland, Sept. 27. A jesting re

mark was climaxed when Oscar Moor

mann, twenty-two, was shot and kill

ed at Junction Hoad and the Big Four

facks. Fred Bledenkapp, twenty-tivp.

vatchman, and Martin Klapp, fifty

live, gate tender, were arrested on a

charge of murder. The police saj

Klapp fired tho fatal bullet, although

Bledenkapp, they charge, drew a re

volver. OLEO MEN

Columbus, Sept. 27. Dennis Kelly,

W. H. Eborst, M. Leo Corbett and W.

H. Kelly of Pittoburgh, officers of tho

old Capital City Dairy company, each

was sentenced to serve two years in

the federal prison at Mouudsvllle, W.

Va.. and assessed flues o! $l,0u0.

They were convicted July 13 on nrne

counts of an indictment charging

them with having defrauded the gov

ernment out of $1,000,000 revenue tax

on colored oleomargarine manufac

tured by tho company. The defend

ants will appeal.

STUDENT

JOKE

M

ENDS

SENTENCED

WAR VETERANS

AT WASHINGTON

Forty-Ninth Annual Reunion Now

Under Way,

DECORATED STREETS JAMMED

Thirty Thousand Members of the

Grand Army of Republic to Partici

pate In the Celebration, Which Will

Reach a Climax Wednesday When

the Great Parade Will Take Place.

Unusual Preparations Made.

Washington, Sept 27. This city to

day welcomed thousands of members

of the Grand Army of the Republic ar

riving here for the forty-ninth annual

ic-union, which begins today .id will

reach a climax Wednesday, when sur

vivors of the conquering Union army

march from the Capitol to the White

House In commemoration of the

grand review after the close of the

civil war.

About 30,000 veterans arc partici

pating in the celebration. The city Is

gaily decorated and the streets are

thronged with veterans and visitors.

Camp Emery, official headquarters

of the reunion, established in the old

Census building, near the Capitol,

was the Mecca for arrivals. It was

formally opened this morning by Da

vid J. Palmer, commander in chief of

tho G. A. It., and Lieutenant General

Nelson A. Miles, retired, who Is to be

grand marshal of the review Wednes

day, was welcomed by Commander

Palmer and his staff.

The day was given over to the in

formal reception of arriving delega

tions. Delegations are coming In state

groups and are being assigned by spe

cial comraitees to their various head

quarters. The Pension building is

teing utilized as a branch headquar

ters and there this afternoon the

United States Marine band gave a pa

triotic concert. Tonight Fort Myer,

the army headquarers and other for

tifications in the vicinity of Washing

ton are to be illuminated, under di

rection of the Veteran Signal Corps

association.

Twelve vessels of the United

States navy, submarines and destroy

ers, were ordered here by Secretary

Daniels for the occasion. These ves

sels, all of a type unknown in civil

war days, will be open for Inspection

by veterans, and daily demonstra

tions will be given by naval officers

for the Instruction of visitors. The

chips are anchored In the Potomac

river near Georgetown Heights, which

was a historic military spot during

the war.

Unusual preparations have been

made to care for the visitors, particu

larly on the clay of the grand parade.

President Wilson will review the pro

cession from a grand stand erected in

front of the White House, where

President Johnson stood in 1SC3 to

review the conquering army of the

rorth.

LIVE STOCK AMD GRAIN

EAST BUFFALO. Sept. 27.

Cattle Prime steeis $9 ont!i SO; ship

ping S iotTS 7S; butcher Jfi 75QK 50;

heifer. J5fTS; cows, J2 2507; bull?, II DO

p7 Z'i calves $4K! 51'.

Hm; Kenxy. ?s ZOiiS 50. mixed, JS GO

CS 70. Yorkers. ?! COJTs 75, pigs, 58 60.

rourhx, J6 GO0B 75: -tng- fJGS.

Flieep nnd Lam!) Yearlirms, SI 50ift

7 -,o, nether. JGQC 25: ewe. JSQ5 DO;

lambs, ?50 CO.

CHICAGO, Sept. 07.

Cattle Native beef cattle, ?G10 40;

western steer", JG GOSiS 65. cows and

helfis, $2 S5(!JS 25: calve. J7(SJ11.

Hog- Light, ?7 55rTS 45. mixed, $6 S5fi

5 40; heavy. JC 50RS 15, roushs, JC 50

6 75; pigs, 55 507 FO.

Sheep nnd Lambs Wethers, J5 35G 33;

lambs, JG 25(3 K SE.

CLEVELAND, Sept 27.

Hn?s Yorliers and light, JS 50; mixed,

JS'rfS 25; pigs, J8; roushs, JG 50; -stags,

5 75.

Sheep and Iimbs Good to choice

wethers, J5 50j6; ewes, $505 50; Rood to

choice springers, J9 73.

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 27

Cattle Prime fed steers, JD 259 75;

choice fat steers. JS 60fi8 90; butcher

Hteers, J7 750S: heifers, J708; cows, IS 25

6 60; bulls, J57 25; calves. J12 60.

Hogs Heavies. JS 150S 25; Yorkers, JS

8 75; pigs, J7Q'7 75.

Sheep and Lambs Sheep $6 50; lambs,

J9 40.

CINCINNATI, Sept. 27.

Cattle Steers, $4 40S7 55: heifers. $4(i?

7 25; cows, J2 50JI6; calves. J5 75011 75.

Hogs rackers and butchers. J7 40?

S SO; common to choice, J5 35TR CO; pigs

and light, $508 30; stags, J4 6005 75

faheep and Lambs Sheep, J2 75j7;

lambs, J5&9.

QOSTON, Sept. 27

Wool Ohio and Pennsylvania fleeces:

Delaine washed, 3IC35c; half bloot comb

ine, 35f(S5c; three-eighths blood combing,

37c; delaine unwashed, 30Q31c; fine un

washed, 26027HC; XX, 82c.

Harsh Cure,

nubby (at breakfast) I've got a bad

liaad this morning. Wife I'm sorry,

dear. I do hope you'll bo able to shake

It off. Boston Transorint

TO OBTAIN

EXPRESSONS

On Loan, Members Leave For

Chicago

Anglo-French Mission to Sound

Out Western Bankers,

BRIEF STATEMENT HANDED OUT

Foreigners Prattles'!) U, Accord With

the Financiers of the Eastern Sec

tion of the United States Over tho

Question of a Credit to Be Estab

lished For Stabilizing Foreign Ex

change. New York, Sept. 27. The Angiu

French mission having come practi

cally into accord with the financiers

of the eastern section of tho country

over tbe credit to be established for

stabilizing foreign exchange, four of

the members of tbe mission left to

day for Chicago, where they will ob

tain expressions of opinion frotii

western bankers on the proposal.

Those leaving here included Baron

Heading, lord chief Justice of Bag

land, chairman of the mission, and

Ernest Mallet, the commissioner for

Prance.

Announcement of the purpose to

visit Chicago came In the form of a

statement banded out by the mission,

as follows:

"We have spent much of our tlmB, ,

since arrival here, in studying con

ditions in this country, and have con

ferred with many bankers and busi

ness men. We are now desirous of

meeting some of the leading men of

affairs from other great centers, and

for that purpose the chairman and

tome other members of the mission

will visit Chicago. We have been

greatly pleased with the active and.

cordial desire for co-operation shown,

by diverse interests throughout tho

country, and we feel confident that

an arrangement will be effected for

the attainment of the common end.

sought, namely, to preserve and

maintain international trade between

the United States on one hand and

Great Britain and France upon tha

other, by the removal of the Impedi

ments which arise from the instabil

ity in the rate of exchange."

Tentative terms were passed upon,

at the library of J. P. Morgan on Sat

urday afternoon and they were

agreed to by the members of the mis

sion, who received special authoriza

tion from their respective govern

ments by cable. Their terms are a

loan or $500,000,000 for five years at

5 per cent, to be furnished by an un

derwriting syndicate of great Ameri

can banks and bankers. Virtually the'

entlre pror'ef-ds of the loan is to re

main in the h&s'Js of the syndicate

until it I? called for to maintain tha

Liability of exchange.

VOLUNTEER FIREMEN

PUT UflOES ARREST"

Cfiarpii tVliii Starting Fires to.

Break Monotony of Village Life.

New York, Sept. 27. Ten members

of the Hartsdale volunteer Qro de

partment, some of them boys, and

one of the village policemen, am

locked up In White Plains charged,

with setting fires in Hartsdale tot

break the monotony of hanging

around the fire house and have the

fun of zipping through the night in .v.

their auto fire cart.

Sheriff Wisendanger says that ha r

has confessions from eight or nine of

the men in which they tell of having .

set tvo fires within the last sir

months, one of which did $10,00O"

damage. They had planned another,- .

they told the sheriff, but when they

looked over the combination hose

cart and chemical engine they found

motor trouble, which stalled the ma

chine. The fires were set In houses

that had not been used for years.

The first was hatched, the sheriff

says, iu the fire house after an even

ing during which tho pleasures of

pinochle had been exhausted. Somo

one suggested setting fire to tho Ran

dolph bnngalow so they could have

a real "fire drill," and cards were

cut to see who should touch off the

place. The four highest men won the

honor.

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