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Sw,

A South? Shields correspondent

*ir«d today-{fiat the Zeppelin, raidejr

uiror*fa»

The minister didn't lose his compos

ure for a minute.

"Thanks," he responded. "A visi

tor has come to help up in our re

cruiting campaign. Let us extend a

rising vote of thanks to Count Zeppe

lin and then go to our homes."

The crowd filed out in orderly fash

ion and moved through darkened

streets to their homes.

In New_ Castle a big concert was

being heTO in the town hall when the

Wirning was flashed here from Blyth.

The lights wore extinguished at once

tad the audience arose and sang:

''God Save the King." All exit doors

wore flung open and the crowd passed

out into the street, remaining there

until daybreak in expectation of see

ing the airship.

five bombs were--dropped at Wall-

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BROWNSVILL^. Texas., April 15

With Matamoron operations still

far from decisive. Villa was reported

today to be planning to take com

mand as soon as he can complete- his

apparent successes at Celaya

He Is said to be disgruntled at the

«ek of progress.

Brownsville bre*tbed TiHtfie easily

today with news that General Fun

tton is taking command of the situa

tion on the American side And la

Planning to have aviators observe

rthe conditions across the border. At

I Present, the warring factions are

fafcroadlrtg their movements lit soo

fJBcy so American troops are uncer

•Jain as to whether, when Che crisis

Y^ss-the Aiftnan «M«hSL

tained Explosive Bombs From the Black Sky in

an Effort to Demolish the Armstrong

Works at New Castle, England.

THERE WHS BUI UTILE DAMAGE DONE

Night Attack Missed New Castle Entirely, But

Gave People in the Near Vicinity a

Half Hour of Excitement.

[By Wilbur S., Forrest, United Press

Staff Correspondent.]

NEW CASTLE, April 16.—Two men

and one woman slightly hurt, one

building destroyed by fire and three

damaged, wag the sum total of the de

struction wrought by one of Count

Zeppelin's aerial dreadnoughts in a

thirty-five minute cruise over the

Tyne district.

fcleven towns were attacked with

explosive and incendiary bombs, ac

cording to information gathered by

the New Castle officials today. The

Zeppelin hurled at least thirty de

structive missils that tore great .holes

in the ground and spurted Into flame

and then it fled eastward across the

Xwth sea while machhje guns and

rifled rattled harmlessly at the sky.

New unifonbt^dly. the objec

tive of the Zeppelin raid, escaped en

tirely. Lights were flashed ont an in

stant after a telephone message from

Blyth to the North sent out the long

expected warning

"A Zeppelin la coming!"

Over head in pitch black skies, the

German airship sought*in vain for

New Castle where thg great Arm

strong works are located. England's

warships and many of her guns are

assembled at the Armstrong plant and

it is considered certain that the Zep

pelin planned tp destroy the works by

raining explosives from the sky. In

stead the German groped her way in

a wide circle about New Castle, drop

ning missies upon evefy Tyne vil

lage in her path.

In Blyth, whore the Zeppelin first

appeared, eight bombs were dropped.

Rev. J. W. Ogden, a speaker at a re

cruiting rally, was trying to entliuse a

lukewarm •crowd by picturing a Ger

man invasion of England, when a

man rushed into the ball.

"A Zeppelin Is over us, sir," he

shouted. "She's headed right for the

center of the town."

send. One of them penetrated a room

where a woman was washing her

baby, bits demolishing the child's bed.

The woman was struck in the head

and slightly wounded. The baby

miraculously escaped Injury.

At Cramlington, near Wallsend, two

bombs were hurled. Both were of In

cendiary character and flames ten

feet high shot from them when they

struck the street. In each instance

the blase died out without doing any

damage.

Guns opened on the Zeppelin at

Cramlington. Two illuminating shells

were fired first, lighting up the sky

and making the Zeppelin apparently

an easy target. The crew was ob

'served throwing out ballast and while

shells burst all about the big bag she

mounted into tlfe darkness and, disap

peared. The coast jgu&rda at Blyth

"also played-rffle fireabovtthe airship,

4nt she ws* not damaged.

Other towns bombarded by the

Zeppelin were fiedltngton. Benton,

Chopplngton, Seatonburn, Seatondelal,

Annltsford, KllllngsWorth and Hart

ford.

The military authorities warned all

surrounding villages to extinguish

their lights. Throughout the Tyne

district all trains and street cars

were stopped and their lights extin

guished until nearly midnight when

word came that the Zeppelin had pass

ed out to sea.

Phased a 8hlp.

[By Wilbur S. Forrest, United Press

Staff Correspondent.]

NEW CASTLE, England, April 15.

—The 5?eppelin airship that bom

barded eleven towns hi tbe Tyne dis

trict last night early today attempted

to sink the tug Jupiter, according to

the captain of the Jupiter, whleh put

in at Blyth this noon.

The Jupiter was steaming north

ward several miles off the coaBt when

she sighted the air monster, accord

ing to her captain. At the same time

the crew of tho dirigible, sweeping

the surface of the North sea with a

big searchlight, brought, the tug into

view.

The Zeppelin turned her nose down

ward, descending almost to the mast

head of tho tug, recording to the Jupi

ter's captain. The crew of the airship

was attempting to put over her side a

large bag supposedly containing an

explosive, when the tug maneuvered

from under and escaped.

The Zeppelin turned about and

chased tho tug for several miles, ac

cording to her captain, but Anally

abandoned the chsse.

Family is Burned.

SASKATOON, 8a.sk.. April 13.—

Sam Elliott, his wife and baby were

burned to death at their home near

Waltrous yesterday!....

The War in Mexico

Latest Developments Among Our Revolution

ary Neighbors of the South.

Battle la a Big One.

WASHINGTON, April 15.—With the

largest forces engaged on both sides

since the days of EHaa, the battle of

Oelaj* between Villa

has developed into a conflict of the

first magnitude.

State department advices indicated

today that Villa has secured a material

advantage. Pfcrt of his force has

been so disposed that Obregon's re

treat is imperiled. Two divisions have

hefn cut off and are in grave peril oi

destruction. .. ..

Government offlrfaf* toere said that

General FunstoB. at wownsville,' has

no authority to take forcible "tepa to

prevent violation of Amerfcanneutwl

Ity. bat must keep in touch with

war degertn—t aad act only va4m

That they would take every precau

tion to avoid a surprise by any Ger

man fleet was taken for granted, but

officials were skeptical of the story

that they had mined the harbor

mouth.

The entire report caused but little

flurry in army or navy circles, although

naturally interest is felt in knowing

just what actually Is transpiring on

the west coast.

STORY IS RIDICULED.

WASHINGTON, April 15.—State and

Admiral Howard was quoted as hav

ing reported that salvage operations

were in progress on

cruiser Asama and as having reported

nothing else. His ships were declared

to be in close touch with conditions

all along the coast and it was asserted

he certainly would not have been

silent had any such thing been in

progress as was mentioned in Los

Angles dispatches.

What the Japanese were engaged in,

looked exactly like salvage work, it

was declared, and It was natural that

It sh9uld look like salvage work, for

salvage work unquestionably was just

what It was.

SAN FftANCKfCti, April 15.—Yusa

taro Numano, Japanese consul gen

eral hers reiterated today Ms denial

that the Japanese were plotting to

establish a naval base in Turtle Bay.

on the Lower California coast, under

guise of salvaging the stranded cruis

er Asama. His was the only official

statement obtainable, the "jlngorstlc"

reports coming from sources known

to favor American intervention in

Mexico.

For several days a violent conflict

has been in progress south of Colmar

In upper Alaaee. The French are as

saulting the German positions in the

heights with a hill known as Schnep

fenrltenkopf aa their objective, be

cause it domlnatea the region for sev

eral miles.

An official communique from the war

office this afternoon announced a

French gain In this direction, of 1,500

yards.

At ovillsrs, near LaBoiselle, French

heavy artillery completely wrecked

some German trenches, the war office

announced. At Fontalne-Aux-Charles,!

in the Argonne, the French captured

about 100 yards of a German trench.

The most furious fighting between

St. Mlhiel and Pont-A-Mousson ia

curring in LePretre woods. The

French have maintained all their po

sitions there, according to the was- of-

KEOKUK, IOWA,

All

[United Pre3s Leased Wire Service.]

WASHINGTON, April 15.—Official

Washington was interested, but not

excited today, in Los Angeles reports

that Japanese warahlps have estab

lished a base at Turtle Bay, 409 miles

south of San Diego. There was a dis

position, however, to consider the re

ports misleading. It has been known

that Japanese war vessels were stand

ing off the Mexican coast, bu| Admir-'

al Howard reported that they were en- SILKS

gaed in salvage work on the cruiser(

Asa ma, aground near the mouth of|

the bay.

E

[By Wm. P. Simms, United Press Staff

Correspondent.]

PARIS, April 15.—French troops

have gained nearly a mile in the sharp

fighting In upper Alsace, according to

dlapatchea received here today. Neir

LaBoiselle, in the Argonne and In the

battle still raging around the German

wada| east of St. Mihlel, the French

havewiade further gains, according to

word brought h®r*.

flee, and have repulsed several Ger- -1- LONDON

True Western Style

Sensational Bit

man attacka. I ptar(nigan has been torpedoed in the

:—Z TTTi North sea with a loss of eleven lives,

In Honor of Nelson. according to a dispatch receivedi

.[United Press Leased Wire Servicel,

TOPSKA. Kans.. April 15,-Gov-

that every newspaper puun. iu 1

eas be closed FYiday during the hour

City, and Wichita to close and he be-

a

ll^r®e

editors will do similar honor to the

memory of the oolonel.

Bond" Reduction Refueetfc

THURSDAY, APRIL 15, '15

TRAIN HELD UP

BY MASKED MEN

Twenty Bandits Stop Freight

Near Niagara Falls and

Escape With Valuable

Loot

WORTH

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on the N''

in

£*anditry

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[United Press Leased Wire Service.]

BUFFALO, N. Y.,^

April 15.—Twenty

masked robbers eart§ today held up

in true western style a New York

navy departmenta and the mikado's Central fast ^freight train near San

embassy here joined today in ridicul

ing the story of establishment by the

Japanese of a naval base at Turtle

Bay or elsewhere on the Mexican west

coast.

•born, Niagara county, and escaped

with ten auto truck loads of valuable

silks.

This train was from Boston, bound

for Chicago, via the Michigan Central

at Niagara Falls.

the 'strandsd' Syracuse, in cutting out his engine ty-four hours, according to the offl-

under fire and running into Suspen-'cial statement from the war office

sion Bridge for help, prevented more1,this afternoon.

extensive looting. The enemy's assaults upon the

The train had slowed down In pass-' north side of the German wedge near

ing through Sanborn at 2 o'clock this Marchevilie were beaten off. The

morning. French alao were repulsed in an at-

A man suddenly appeared on the tack In Lepretre forest, northwest of

tracks and waved a warning. Engi- Pont-A-Mousson.

neer Goss shut off his throttle and I In the fighting around Manonvlller

the train came to a stop. As it did so! and near Hartmannswellerkopf ln Al

two men climbed into the cab and sace, the Germane have maintained

leveled their revolvers at the engi

neer and fireman. The train crew

left tlie caboose to find out the reason

for the stopping of the train and

^.jj&eae three themselves

also confronted' by tw«r masked men

who shoved revolvers In tlieir faces

and ordered them to throw up their

hands.

The train men were then ordered

to march up to the engine and they

went, guarded hy the revolvers of the

bandits. The five men were lined up

alongside a car and while one man

kept them covered with a revolver,

the other robbers busied themselves

in breaking into the cars.

It is estimated by railway officials

that tie stuff stolen by the robbers,

mostly silk in bolts, was worth fully

$50,000.

Too Many In the Deal.

BUFFALO, N. Y„ April 15—Chief

of Detectives Hennessy of the New

York Central lines told Superlnten-

dent Fred Fredericks at noon today of

It is believed that on account of the

extensive scale on which the raid was

f,T lted pregs

th| aftornoo

n.

he£e™"

ernor Arthur Capper has suggested ptarmigan were rescued ac

plant in K^n-jg^ing to a dispatch from Amster

dam. The steamer waj torpedoed a

few miles off the coast of Holland be-

reai#

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Leased Wire Servicel

Apr 1

5—The steamer

^er members of the crew

rnrHlnn to

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of the funeral of W. R. Nelson

the Kansas City Star. The governor i"" n"Hinder "Light and the Hook of

has ordered his own printing plant: i_|0j|anc|.

here and the branches In Kansas -j-^® ptarmigan was a 784 ton

Rt

jry

registry

Navigation company. Her port ©f the Carpathians.

waa

London.

ENGLAND'S LOSSES.

TENDON, April 15.—British

rrrnfted Press Leased Wire Servicel I attles fro*n the beginning of the mygtery in the Bronx murder case in

OBTOaSo ApT1-Se button April 11 total 13«W47, Harold J. ^Ich (he identification of the victim

ycmiui* 1 Iinditr wrm. T_r nt Tmr

of the men convicted of election Tennant,^riiarn^ry ur^er s«:r^

bnis, at Terre Haute, for a reduo- tary of

tton of bond under which they were qu*»M°y»" the

was today refused by Judge O. "terfton.

in the UnKed.

1DI*I JwMb

hou*a corwnon*

vJ^diTfe Gate CItrwant colu**.

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[United Press Leased Wire Service.]

BERLIN, April 15. (Via wireless to

Sayville, L. I.)—That ho was undor

strict orders not to take aboard any

persons unused to living In a sub

merged vessel, was the official explan

ation offered by the commander of the

German submarine that sank the Fal

aba, for failing to rescue any of the

English liner's passengers while they

were struggling In the water.

The commander's official report re

ceived today, said the Falaba disobey

ed orders to stop and signalled for

help. The loss of 112 lives, he re

ported, was due to unseamanlike be

havior of the Falaba's crew In getting

over the boats.

BECOMES A HERO.

BERLIN, April 15. (Via wireless to

Sayville, L. I.)—Commander Otto Wed

dleen, of the German submarine U-29,

sunk by the British, will be immortal

ized as one of Germany's great war

heroes. Princess Bismarck, widow of

the "Iron Chancellor's'* son, has placed

on Bismarck's tomb a laurel wreath,

bearing the inscription: "To the hero

Weddigen."

ATTACKS BEATEN OFF.

BERLIN, (via wireless to SayvlMe)

April 15.—The French have attacked

at only Isolated points between the

The daring of Engineer Goss of! Meuse and Moselle In the last twen-

their positions in the face of enemy

attacks.

On the eastern battle front, the

situation has not changed In' the

last twenty-four hourf, the war office

announced.

RUSSIA

[By Ed. L. Keen, United Press Staff

Correspondent.]

LONDON, April 15.—Sharply con

flicting reports regarding the progress

of the great Carpathian pass battles

came from Petrograd and Berlin to?

day. A dispatch from Petrograd an

nounced that the Germans are blow

ing up the railway tunnels through

the Uszok pass In preparation for a

re

treat. An official statement Issued

a promising clue to the auto bandits Berlin this afternoon, declared that

who held up a fast freight train near: Russians have been badly beaten

Sanborn early today and robbed the

ancj

cafs of silks estimated to be worth' tempted invasion of Hungary.

$50,000. Arrests are expected in a. The Russians are exhausted, the

few hours. Berlin war office announced. Th®lr

checked at every point in the at-

ttacka have grown steadily weaker

jn the tawt

planned and carried out, there will pressure of the Austro-German lines,

not be much difficulty In locating atjha8 ajmot

least some of the robbers. From in- Russian attempt to use the

formation gathered from railroad men 1 perrT1y8| elege army to force an Inva

today, it is estimated that between |on

0

fifteen and twenty men were engaged! p08|tiVe statement made at Berlin,

in the robbery. Fifteen of the fifty-: «The enemy's efforts to .break into

five cars In the train were broken

jays and under the

cea#e

d.

Hungary has failed, was the

hungary

into and several auto truck loads °£jeaet of Dukla pass, has been blocked,

valuable merchandise taken.

Shpts fired by the robbers

were

by way of Lupkow saddle,

since the Russian attaok near Stropko

was definitely stopped. The Russians

WdO UWIIMIkWII

plainly heard toy persons living' in, therefore attacked to the east. They

Sanborn. we're repulsed with heavy loss®s near

Railroad men say that lever before

Koziova

has a train robbery been carried out Qn other hand, Lemberg dls

on such an extensive scale and plans.

Datc

so carefully laid for a Quick get-away, battle for possession of Uszok

pass and the railway, is proceeding

with gr«at fury. The Slavs are re

ported prgssing upon the enemy from

west along the road leading over the

mountain crest from Volosate.

hes to Petrograd today asserted

The Germans, according to this re

port have dynamited the tunn«l near

sianki at the northern gateway to the

I Uszok, thus admitting they have little

hope of taking the offensive again in

I thi% region.

Operations on the Hungarian side

of the mountains, near Stropko have

I been halted. Calm also prevails In

the region north of Bartfeld, where

the opposing armies have entrenched

1 in preparation for a great battle.

petrograd dispatches today con

tinued to lay stress upon the new Ger

man movement around Ossowetz In

Poland and the Auatro-German attacks

north of Bukowina. The majority of

Petrograd military critics expressed

the belief that these operations were

kllD ucl

,v, ... _r

eamor, owned by the General Steam designed to draw Russian troopa from

Further Mystery.

I United Press Leased Wire Service]

NEW YORK, April 15.—Further

&b Claudia Hansbury, of Troy, was

followed by the arrest of Rafael Pl

ciullo, was added this afternoon

through a dispatch from Troy saying

that Claudia Hansbury Is alive and

In her home there.

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OVER ENGLAND

There were present three American

cardinals, eight arch-bishops, thirty

bishops, thirty signori, eight heads of

a religious order, sixty colleges and

university representatives, more than

300 clergy and hundreds of distin

guished men and women.

Today's celebration was marked

also by the reading this afternoon of

a letter from Pope Benedict, the first

message of its kind to America.

"We love, may we dearly cherish

the American peoale^ £»rceful .s« they

are with the vigor of youth and

thought, wrote tn© pope.

Joseph F. Smith. New

Sks

Fallowing luncheon, the academic

procession proceeded to the new Na-

NEIW YORK, April 15 (11 a. m.)

Field Marshal French's report on the

blunders committed by the British at

Neuve Chapelle. clears up much that

was obscure in that engagement and

emphasizes anew the almost insuper

able obstacles that prevent a major

victory resulting from trench warfare

Since the entrenched fighting be

gan in France and Belgium, it is cer

tain that many incidents not unlike

•the mismanagement at Neuve Cha

pelle have occurred to all of the

belligerents. Otherwise the annals of

the past six months would show more

victories won by the Germans or the

allies. But until the British com

mander in chief made public his

frank avowal of the blunders of his

army, all detail© of failures have been

surpressed. General Joffre has per

mitted it to be announced that in

competence on the part of the French

commanders was responsible for tho

success of the Gorman drive through

Belgium and northern France. The

Germans, too, have publicly criticised

the Austrians in general terms. But

the British report of the Neuve Cha

pelle battle. Is the first one to give

particulars of an unpalatable char

acter.

The British democracy apparently.

Is winning its fight against the

Kitchener censorship.

Four primary reasons are stated

by Field Marshal French to be re

sponsible for the meagreness of the

gains at Neuve Chapelle. First, the

failure of the twenty-third brigade

properly to cut its way through

barbed wire entanglements second,

the delay of the fourth corps in get

ting its reserves into action third,

the difficulty of reorganising the

yarious unite after they had charged

THE WEATHER

Partly cloudy and cooler. Lo

cal temp—7 p. m. 60 7 a. m.

50.

Attended Celebration of Twenty-fifth Anniver

sary of the Catholic University, Which is

Being Made a Feature Event.

LETTER FROM THE POPE IS READ

Three Cardinals, Eight Arch-bishops, Thirty Bish

ops and Hundreds of Other Leaders of

the Church are Present.

[United Press Leased Wire Service.]

WASHINGTON, April 15.—The

most distinguished Catholic audience

ever assembled in America today at

tended in St. Patrick's church, the

celebration of solemn pontlficial mass,

opening the Catholic university of

America's ^oth anniversary exercises.

sec

th JZ would toe quite In keeping

masf^ere? cLlebrautmCardTafFar-' ^solarly happy character of

ley: deacons of honor. Very Rev.

Thomas Finn, Rockford, 111., and Rev.

Y°rlk- a

The sermon was preached by Car- Jianfnrta

dlnal Gibbons, who nAid in part:

There is no real liberty without

law and there is no meaning or valid

ity to law unless it be observed. The

growth of democracy does not imply

that each man shall be a law unto

himself, but that he shall feel In

weat. legislation will avail but little, thought: and as we earnestly desire

the law-making power will become a

mockery and the people will complain

that legislation has been carried to

excess."

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TEN PAGES

tional theatre where invocation by

Cardinal- Gibbons opened the exer*

cises. The letter from the pope read

at this time follows:

"To our beloved sons, James Car

dinal Gibbons, archbishop of Balti

more, John Cardinal Farley, arch

bishop pf New York, William Car

dinal O'Connell, archbishop of Bos

ton: and to our other venerable

brethren, the archbishops and bishops

of the United 8tates of America:

"Benedict XV. Pope.

"Beloved sons and venerablei

brethren, greeting and apostolic bene

diction.

"We have recently learned that

preparations were being made at

Washington for observing with due

solemnity thfe twenty-fifth anniversary

of tho founding pf. the Catholic univer

sity. Ana that the celdbrictton, graced

(Continued on page 2.)

What the War Moves Mean

By J. W. T. Mason, Former European Man

ager of the United Press.

through the enemy's trenches: fourth

the improper control of the artillery

which swept tho field over which the

British themselves, were advancing.

It would be easy to set down these

mistakes to British blundering and

to remark on the similarity of the

present report and those issued dur

ing the Boer war. But criticism of

this nature would miss the prime

lesson of Sir John French's analysis.

Bvory mistake committeed at Neuve

Chapelle is a representative one. If

it were not for these and similar

difficulties!, modern generalship would

not be so Impotent before the en

emy's entrenchments.

There Is no reference in Sir John

French's report to a belief that such

errors will not happen again. In

fact, five weeks have passed since

the Neuve Chapelle battle and as

yet no effort has been made to re

deem the 'blunders committed last

month. The British commander's

views on the subject are very point

ed. He says such losses as those at

Nenve Chapelle must be exrvcted in

the future, unless he has a most effi

cient and powerful artillery force

and "an almost unlimited supply of

ammunition."

There Is no reason at present to

believe any of the belligerents ha«

"an almost unlimited supply of am

munition." Neither side can afford

to pay the price of Neuve Chapelle

victortes without unlimited ammuni

tion, which cost the British thirteen

thousand lives for a gain of sixteen

hundred yards along a front of about

two miles. The lesson of Sir John

French's report, therefore, is that no

I present hope exists of breaking the

deadlock along the western battle

I front.

i'

•s

..

with the

the 06-

slngularly happy

casion.

"That you, beloved sons and vener

able brethren, should above all rtjolce.

the prosperity of the university Is.

whn

that,

obvious to every one who realizes thati

the beginnings and the gratifying r-o

Kress of this seat of learning are

owing especially to your wise and

timely care. And yet this joy of yours

is not so peculiar to yott but that we

also may in some wise share it. For

that an ever widening path to the

highest level of human achievement

may be open before them, so we can

not but feel the deepest pleasure at

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