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a a a a a a a a a a the spirit of suffrage in their hearts, Kansas women will be interested in the eastern fashion display today. HOME EDITION DEFACTOS SHOOT 70 VILLA MEN IN BATTLE Carranza Garrison at Pasaje Fires on Rebel Cohort. Reyes Force Approaching Under Terms of Surrender. VILLA WHEREABOUTS MYSTERY Supplies Shipments Indicate Troops at Parral. Anti-Gringo Circulars Seattered in Chihuahua City.

Torreon. April of five-hour battle between the Carranza at Pasaje, Durango, and an garrison force composed of Conattacking and Ceniceros bandits were brought here today. The outlaws fled trerus. disorder into the hills of the in district after losing seventy killed, it is reported. The de facto troops had four dead.

The battle took place on Sunday. First reports were that the attacking force was commanded by General Canuto As negotiations have been under Reyesay for the surrender of General Reyes, under an amnesty grant, bitter disappointment was expressed by Carranza officials. The surrender of Reyes was expected seriously to cripple the Villa cause in the neighborhood of Torreon and Durango. Reyes About to Surrender? The fight was reported to have been precipitated by the garrison, which was said to have fired on the troops of General Reyes as they approached under an agreement for peace negotiations. The latest details, however, to show that Reyes is not implicated and there are still hopes that he will cease w.

rfare against A doctor gent from here to treat battle some brought of the back men the wounded details of in the engagement. He said Contreras and Ceniceros attackers were ed to withering fire from the garrison. They fled in disorder. He arrived in time to count the bodies of seventy outlaws scattering over the battleground. Among the dead were a colonel and a.

captain. It is possible this battle was the one reported at El Paso, in which the United States troops were thought to have engaged, Train Brings News of Clash. El Paso, April battle was reported to have been fought near Jiminez and Parral, but on account of the Carranzista censorship the forces engaged were not made known. A Mexican Central train ran into the fighting, later returning Jiminez when the censored reports were sent border. It is not known here American forces engaged in fighting.

Information from mining men near T'arral placed an American detachment in that vicinity and Villista bandits were recently reported thereabouts. Carranzista authorities in Juarez were silent regarding the battle. Where Villa himself is today is a mystery. The rumor of his death was believed to have been inspired by Mexican sources to bring about the withdrawal of the American troops. Declares Villa Dead.

inent Villa adherent and now Marquese De Lao, formerly a ranza follower, stated on his arrival from Chihuahua City that a Mexican came there with positive information of Villa's death from wounds suffered in the Guerrero engagement with the Carranzistas March 30. However. all mining company reports tended to show that Villa was with a small column of bandits last reported near Tepechuanes, Durango. That the main American squadrons are in southwestern Chihuahua is shown by negotiations between the quartermaster's department and El dealers for large shipments of hay and oats to be shipped over the Mexican Central railway by way of Chihuahua City. De Factos Suppress Proclamation.

This was another indication that American forces are in the neighborhood of Parral and Jiminez, where a fight is reported to have occurred. Fort Bliss headquarters received an unconfirmed report that an antiAmerican proclamation was circulated in Chihuahua City last Friday night. Presumably the Carranzista authorities suppressed it as all other reports told of co-operation by the de facto government with American forces. Funston Views With Hope. San Antonio, April American expedition today is nearer the consummation of its object than at any time since the chase after Villa started.

This was the belief of Major General Frederick Funston, expressed today in the fact of discredited rumors of Villa's death, believed by army officers to have been inspired. There He Goes! Here He Is! Washington, April cablegram from General Obregon to the Mexican embassy today said Villa, according to his reports, had gone into the mountains wounded with less than 150 men. To Change Line Into Mexico. San Antonio, April Funston announced today that a change would be made soon that would affect the long line of communications between Columbus, N. and General Pershing's advanced forces.

He declined to state what that change would be, but. barring the free use of the railroad it was assumed by most army officers that it had been decided either to reinforce the line materially or shift it to a shorter route. The TOPEKA, KANSAS, FEDERATION'S HONOR GUEST Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Who Was One of the Honor Guests at the Fed- HISS NAVY HEAD Secretary Refused to Let Admiral Read Paper. Denunciation of "Gag" Policy Voiced at Convention.

Washington, April Daniels refusal to permit Rear Admiral Fiske to read a paper before the Navy League convention here today stirred up a wave of denunciation against the secretary in the meeting, and drew hisses from one part of the hall. The admiral's paper, previously published in the Naval Institute, an official publication of the navy war college, was read by William Mather Lewis, of Lake Forest, while the meeting cheered roundly. Col. Robt. M.

Thompson, president of the league, read from Secretary Daniels denying request that the admiral read the paper and declared: Regrets "Narrow View." "I desire to express my sorrow that the navy department should take this narrow view, so strongly in conflict with that taken by the war department. This question goes behind a mere departmental wish. It involves the constitutional right of free speech, that an officer of fifty years service acknowledged as one of the leaders of his profession should be denied the right to say that two and two make four." Col. Thompson's mention of Secretary Daniels' name brought hisses from a part of the house. Henry Reuterdahl and William H.

Slayton of New York, attacked the secretary's position and Reuterdahl declared that, "wholesale gagging of navy officers did not come originally from the navy department, but originally from the White House." Refused Once Before. Secretary Daniels' letter gave as a reason for his position the attitude taken by the department recently when Admiral Fiske was not permitted to speak to the Commercial club of Chicago on naval affairs. Then the secretary wrote he thought it better for civilians to lead the fight for enlargement of the navy and for navy officers to continue an unbroken policy of not trying to influence legislation. "Naval experts," he wrote, "will give their views to the naval affairs committee in congress and hearing will be public. This gives to congress and the people the opinions of experts." "If any one here wants to defend the secretary's position let him arise," shouted Reuterdahl.

No one arose to the defense of the secretary. Sidestep Big Strike. Bayonee, N. April all of the 200 Tidewater Oil company employees who struck yesterday returned to work today. At the Standard Oil company's plant, where 3.

strike was also feared developments pointed to an amicable understanding being reached. Wild Pheasants Invade City and Scratch Gardens Portland, April Thousands of gorgeously plumed Chinese pheasants infecting the highways and byways of this city today are making life a burden for Portland housewives and property owners. Apparently they belong to no one in particular. Game laws and anti-firearm city ordinances prevent their slaughter. So the birds continue to rip out spring gardens, fly through windows into the bosoms of families and to play hob generally.

Mayor Albee has refused S. J. Claride and other citizens permission to shoot pheasants, but has instructed the police force members to "shoo" the critters away as much as possible. Topeka WEDNESDAY MRS. CATT, HONOR GUEST OF STATE "FEDS," IN TOPEKA President of National Equal Suffrage Association Here.

Luncheon at Washburn Gymnasium by Federation. SECOND DAY OF Busy Sessions for Club Women From Over Kansas. Dancing and Special Music a Feature of Luncheon. Delegates. The district delegates the biennial meeting of the Federation of Woman's Clubs in New York follow: First district-Mrs.

Festus Foster, Topeka, delegate, and Mrs. A. A. Byers, Horton, alterrate. Second district--Mrs.

Charles F. Iola, and Mrs. N. Miller of Fort Scott, delegates; Mrs. Isabel Rumbaugh, and Mrs.

T. Rogers, Mound City, alternates. Third district-Mrs. F. Stout, Oswego, and Mrs.

L. H. Stanford, Independence, delegates; Mrs. A. H.

Independence, and Mrs. Ben Gaitskill, Fourth Girard, district- McCowan, Emporia, and Mrs. John Frazier, White City, delegates; Mrs. J. Wick- ham, Emporia, and Mrs.

Geo. Plumb, Emporia, alternates. Fifth district- Mrs. M. W.

Sherman, Salina, and Mrs. M. O. Roark, Junetion City, delegates; Mrs. J.

P. Scott, Herington, and Mrs. J. K. Raber, Junction alternates.

Sixth district Mrs. A. T. Coolidge, Smith Center, and Miss Grace Beloit, delegates; Mrs. C.

E. Feiling, Jennings, and Mrs. Alice Laderick, Lenore, alternates.Seventh district- Mrs. Jessie F. Vedder, and Mrs.

Taylor Hann, Kinsley, delegates; Miss Pearl Leighty, Hutchinson, and Mrs. Ed. Wickwire, alternates. Eighth district--Mrs. George Benton, Wichita, delegates and Mrs.

J. C. Mack, Newton, alternate. Pittsburg was chosen as the next. meeting place of the federation: (By Bertha Hempstead.) The second day's sessions of the largest convention of the Kansas State Federation ever held.

opened this morning at 9 o'clock in Memorial The feature of today's program was the luncheon at Washburn college gymnasium, where Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt was one of the guests of honor. Mrs. Catt.is making the trip to Topeka to be present at the convention of the Kansas Equal Suffrage association, which convenes Thursday. She was urged to come day earlier, and made her arrangements to be in town today.

She arrived late this forenoon from the east, and was taken immediately to the home of Governor and Mrs. Arthur Capper, and from there to the luncheon at Washburn. She made a brief address following the luncheon. Mrs. Catt is president of the National Equal Suffrage association, succeding in that office Dr.

Anna Howard Shaw, who held it many years. Mrs. Catt also is president of the international suffrage organization. She is a remarkable woman in an tual way. She is a good speaker, a person of poise and culture, and she has no small degree of good looks.

She heads the faction in suffrage work that advocates the winning of the ballot for women by the process of converting the states one by one, as opposed to the faction that believes the dominant political party can be brought to assist a national amendment through congress, by means of the pressure put upon it by the united vote of the women of enfranchised states. Two Factions Here. The thing that lends poignancy to the situation in Topeka today is the fact that the leaders of the two opposite factions are sitting at luncheon, surrounded by their local adherents, in the same town the same day; for the O. H. P.

Belmont suffrage workers and their Kansas followers are dining uptown this noon. While the federation has nothing to with politics, and as a body of enfranchised women recognize the justice of equal suffrage as only one of the principles they stand for: and while the coming of Mrs. Catt for the federation party is somewhat incidental to the convention proceedings; still the idea has been forming in the minds of Topeka women, that those who attend the luncheon for the suffrage squadron at Pelletier's are somehow committed to the Congressional Union policy, while those who remain away are "agin" it, though not nearly all of the Topeka federation women are able to find places at the federation luncheon. Such a large number of delegates and other out-of-town club women have arrived, that many of the local club women have relinquished their places at the table to give room for the visitors. Professor McKeever.

The principal address of this morning's session was by Professor W. A. McKeever, of the child welfare department of the State University, rence. Mr. McKeever was not pres-: ent, aposthe address was read by Rev.

Foster. He told of the evils of the cigarette habit, its effects on the mind, body and morals, and asserted that if the cigarette smoking (Continued on Page Two.) Postpone Hyde Hearing. Kansas City, April on the motion to dismiss charges on which Dr. Clark Hyde has been tried three times for the murder of Col. Thomas H.

Swope were postponed today until a date after April 21. On April 21, Dr. Hyde will have his preliminary hearing on the new allegations brought by the prosecuting attorney last Monday, in which the physician is charged with poisoning Colonel Swope by using strychnine and cynide of potassium. State EVENING, APRIL 12, "UNIONS" RUSH TOPEKA WITH 23 EASTERN STARS Greatest Suffrage Demonstration in History of Kansas. Two Led by National Stars Meeting Today.

RIVALRY REACHES ACUTE STAGE Luncheon at Same Hour With Lines Drawn Tightly. Mrs. Belmont and Mrs. Boissevain Unable to Appear. Congressional Union Program.

Party of 36 eastern women arrive 12:50 p. Santa Fe. 1 o'elock-Automobile parade for visiting suffragists. 1:30 -Luncheon Pelletier's tea room. Invitations to 150 men women.

3:30 to 6 o'clock- Receptions at gOvernor's mansion, Eighth avenue and Buchanan street. Street speeches, distribution of literature and suffrage demonstrations on prominent streets by visiting women. meeting, Representative hall. All the factional jealousy engendered by women's -club strife in Kansas in the last few months came to a head today when 23 New York and eastern leaders invaded Topeka in interests, of the Congressional Union and the fight for national suffrage. Street.

speeches, paloads of literature, receptions, and mere speeches were on program of the Congressional Union delegation. A counter attraction is being staged by the State Federation and the National Suffrage association with Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt as the star. Harriet Stanton Blatch, a Leader of the Congressional Union Which Today Invaded Kansas. Never in the history of suffrage campaigns in Kansas has such a demonstration been given in Kansas as the one which was on the program of the Congressional Union.

For weeks they have carefully prepared for invasion of the state. Now, with the Democratic state convention barely out of the way, the Congressional Union leaders seek to send a new fear to the hearts of the Kansas Bourbons in Washington. More than 150. visitors and Kansas club women and suffrage leaders sat at a luncheon this afternoon in Pelletier's room. Short speeches were made by a number of women in the official party from the east.

They urged the necessity of a women's party in this state that would aid the women of other states in winning their battle. Following the luncheon, the women took their flags and banners and started for a campaign of the business district. Nearly a dozen women volunteered to make speeches on street corners and in jublic places in an effort to arouse the Kansas enthusiasm for national suffrage. Mrs. Belmont Didn't Come.

There was a groan from Kansas club women who met the invading forces at the station when announcement was made that neither Mrs. O. H. Belmont nor Mrs. Inez Milholland (Continued on Page POWDER PLANT UP Entire Dupont Factory Destroyed by Four Blasts.

Man Killed, Two Children Dead in Ruins of Home. Roanoke, April -The entire powder plant of the Dupont company located eight miles west of Bluefield, W. was destroyed by an explosion early today, according to telephone advices Bluefield. Three persons were killed. The loss is estimated at $150,000.

Bluefield, W. April -Three persons were killed, a workman and two children, when the plant of the Dupont Powder company at Nemours, Mercer county, eight miles from here was blown to pieces by four explosions early today. Houses in the little village were wrecked. The children were buried in the ruins of the home, near the powder mill. The principal damage was done by the first explosion, which is said to have completely destroyed the building in which it occurred.

The succeding explosions believed to have been caused by flying embers and were of less intensity. I night on war orders. The plant has been working day and Journal. 1916-TEN PAGES M'BRIDE SAYS HE WAS ASKED TO "COVER" GRAND Topeka Newspaper Gave Him Statement to Sign, He Says. It Would Have "Whitewashed" Theater Unsafe Report.

GOVERNOR WILL INVESTIGATE Capper Won't Stand for "Mixing" in Crawford Affair. Can't Believe Employee Tried to Influence State Officer. "I never made such a statement as quoted 'by the Capital this morning. I never said anything that could be construed to mean what they stated this morning. The Capital brought me want- a long typewritten statement and ed me to sign it.

This statement would have placed me on record as declaring, the Grand opera house safe. I refused absolutely to sign this statement. ran my pencil through most of it for I could not. after knowing what I did about the Grand, make any such J. McBride, State Labor Commissioner.

This is the statement made today by Paul J. McBride, state labor commissioner, in answer to an article published in the Topeka, Capital minimizing the state and city reports to the effect that the Grand Opera house is unsafe and unfit for public use. When the attention of Governor Arthur Capper was called to the charge that his paper had tried to influence a state official and has his department practically repudiate a statement that they had issued only after a most careful investigation had been made, he seemed amazed and made the following statement: Governor Will Find Out. "I know absolutely nothing about Mr. Crawford's trouble with Commissioner McBride.

I have 'not discussed the subject with Mr. Crawford, Mr. McBride or with any one connected with my newspaper. I have no time for matters of this kind. I am giving about one hour a week my newspaper business.

I do not believe that any employee of the Capital suggested to Commissioner McBride that his order be modified. If this was done, it was a serious mistake. He was mixing in something that did not concern; him. I shall inquire into the matter myself and if anything of this kind has been done, I shall call down the man who did it. But, as I said before, I cannot believe that any one connected with my paper has been attempting to influence this state official." After handing his statement to the State Journal the governor said: "You can't make that statement too strong for me for I would stand for any such actions one instant.

All this matter has come up at a time when every moment of my time is taken up with affairs of state and I have not given it any thought or attention--but," and here the governor looked steadily at the interviewer, certainly will from this moment." Work All Over State. Commissioner McBride said this morning relative to the inspection: "We are doing this all over the state and we have simply come to Topeka in the natural course our inspections. We have not singled it out to make a horrible example at all. It is in line with our duties, and if we are to live up to them we must make an inspection in Topeka. "We are now at work on it and will continue to do our duty as facts present themselves to us, regardless of whom it may hit.

We are not playing, one class or firm against another. They all will be treated the same and all will get a square deal from this department. We have no axes to grind old scores to clean off the slate. Its our duty and we are simply fulfilling it." WEATHER STAYS GOOD Slightly Lower Temperatures Predicted by the Weather Bureau. Usually warm weather prevailed over the state last night with no precipitation reported at any place.

A slight change is expected for tomorrow though the general aspect of the weather will continue the same. The wind remains in the southwest but it has dropped considerably in velocity since last night. The forecast calls for fair weather tonight and Thursday; cooler tonight and in the eastern and southern portions of the state Thursday. The mercury is expected slightly lower tonight than last night but no severe drop is in prospect. The lowest temperature last night at Topeka was 62 degrees.

This is 20 degrees above the normal and is 10 degrees higher than the minimum of the night before. The sky was slightly hazy this morning but the mercury was climbing and there seemed to Le a chance to equal the high record for (Continued on Page Two.) SELTZER UNION STRIKE IMPERILS N. Y. HIGHBALLS New York, April well known high, ball is in imminent peril in this vicinity. The Seltzer union is threatening to go on strike.

Through the Mineral Water. Bottiers' and Drivers' union all the seltzers manufacturers in the city have been, notified that on April 20, unless the union's demands for increased wages and shorter hours are complied with, the men will go strike. WEATHER forecast for Kansas: Fair tonight and Thursday; tonight and in the east and south Thursday. THIS RICHARD HARDING DAVIS DIES OF HEART FAILURE Mount Kisco, N. April 1 Richard Harding Davis, author and correspondent, died at his home here late last night from heart Richard Harding Davis.

trouble. His body was found early this morning and he had apparently been stricken while at his telephone. Mr. Davis had gone into his library to dictate a telegram, to a friend in New York city. His wife assumed, when he did not return that seated himself to read and did not visit the library until after midnight.

Mr. Davis had been in failing health for some time and had sought quiet at his country place, Cross Roads farm, under the care of his wife, who was Bessie McCoy, the actress. Richard Harding Davis was born in Philadelphia in 1864. He was educated in Lehigh and Johns Hopkins universities. He was at various times correspondent in the Turkish Spanish-American, African and Russo-Japanese wars for the London Times and the New York Herald.

He was a member' of numerous clubs in New York and London and was a fellow in the Royal Geographical society of Londonas married twice, his first wife obtaining a divorce for desertion. The second wife survives him. He has been an author and correspondent for many years and has probably a hundred books to his credit. Most of them deal with war and international affairs of the past decade. Principal among his stories are "Cinderella," "The White Mice," "Soldiers of Fortune" and "The Bar Sinister." During the present Europe he had been active as correspondent at various fronts during practically the entire conflict.

FIND VILLA LOOT Carranza Soldiers Dig Up $5,000,000 Treasure. Buried by General Urbina, Later Killed by Villa. El Paso, April million dollars worth of loot buried by the late General Tomas Urbina has been recovered by Carranzista military forces, according to an official announcement by Consul Garcia here today. The treasure was buried on the Las Niexos ranch in Durango. It comprised twenty-three boxes of gold coins and jewelry, twenty bars of gold bullion, some silver bullion and loot from Mexican churches, besides 000 in bank notes.

The Carranzistas under General Francisco Murgia have been searching for the buried treasure for months. Urbina gathered the loot during years of campaigning as Villa's most trusted lieutenant. When Villa broke with Carranza and needed funds to finance his own revolution, Villa went to Urbina's headquarters and demanded half the loot. Urbina refused and killed by Villa, who afterwards was unable to find the treasure as Urbina had buried it. About 25 carloads of supplies for United States troops in Mexico were expected to go forward over the Mexican lines today.

The arrangements are being handled by El Paso firms. More than half of this will go over the Mexican Central railway to Chihuahua City to be transferred there to the southern division of the Mexico Northwestern and forwarded to the American forces in western hua. BODY ARRIVES FRIDAY Funeral of Warren Crumbine Delayed by Incident of Trip. Owing to quarantine delays at port the body of Warren Crumbine will not reach until Friday, evening. The funeral will at 10:30 o'clock Saturday morning at the First Presbyterian church.

Interment will take place at Mount Hope cemetery. Warren Crumbine, son of Dr. S. J. Crumbine, died February 17 in Shanghai, China.

The widow started home with the body and it was expected har she would arive in Topeka on Thursday. Dr. Stephen S. Estey, pastor of the First Presbyterian church will conduct the services. EDITION 2 CENTS 3000 FALL IN BRITISH CHARGE ON TURK FORT Attempt to Rescue Beleagured Garrison Again Fails.

English Reinforced Before Kut Amara From Dardanelles. STORM VERDUN FORTS IN VAIN Teutons Desperate, Throwing Gas and Liquid Fire. Renew Assault West of Meuse This Morning. FRENCH REPULSE INFANTRY Cloud of Chlorine Gas Drives Defenders From Trench. Germans Occupy Entrenchment but Are Driven Out.

BIG RACES ARE ON Major Leagues Open Season Under Clear Skies Today. Only at Boston Was the Weather at All Threatening. Cleveland, Ohio, April Tris Speaker signed his contract with the Cleveland American to appear the line-up this aftleague club, today and was ready ernoon in the opening game. Details of the contract were not divulged. New York, April clear and fair weather reported at seven of the eight major league cities where games were scheduled to be played, the opening games of the baseball season today would attract big attendances, it was predicted.

The American league's initial contest at Boston may have to be postponed but that is the only city in either big league where inclement weather conditions prevail. In the National league Boston plays Brooklyn, New York at Philadelphia, Chicago at Cincinnati, and Pittsburg at St. Louis. Detroit opens at Chicago in American league, St. Louis at Cleveland, Philadelphia at Boston, and Washington at New York.

ters More in the than first the usual contests this interest season cenon account of the many changes in personnel of the teams and the ownership of the clubs that nave taken place since the inning of the world's championship by the Boston Red Sox last October closed the season of 1915. Teams Are Stronger. In the interim the Federal league abdicated to organized baseball and there followed a general distribution of the independent league players among major and minor circuits of organized baseball. Following this reconstruction new interests were bought into the big leagues in Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis, Boston and other points.

In some cases the teams were virtually made over, with the result that on paper, at least, they appear far stronger than a year ago and all indications point to well balanced and hard fought pennant struggles in both leagues. A number of former big league stars who had cast their lot with the Federals will again be seen on major league diamonds. In the American league, Lee Magee, "Germany" Schafer, Cullop and Gedon will wear New York uniforms, while Deal, Crandall, Hartley, Chapman, Plank, Groom and Borton will play for St. Louis. Many Fed Stars.

The consolidation of the Chicago National and Federal league clubs gave the Cubs a number of former Federals, as was the case in St. Louis, where the American and Federal organization doubled up. Under Manager Joe Tinker, the following players will wear Chicago National uniforms: Yerkes, Hendrix, Zwilling, Seaton, Zeider, Flack, Brown and others. The New York Giants will show Benny Kauff, Rousch, Rariden and Anderson on their roster. Hal Chase, a former American league star, will be back in the big circuit, playing first base for Cincinnati.

In addition, two famous stars will be seen in new uniforms. Frank Baker, former star of the Athletics, will play third base for the New York Americans, while Tris Speaker, long a member of the Boston Red Sox, will play with Cleveland. ARMY BILL IS FAULTY Federal Control of National Guard Unconstitutional, Says Crowther. Washington, April secuons of the Chamberlain army reorganization bill now pending in the senate which would place the national guard under federal control, are unconstitutional, according to Judge Advocate General of the Army E. H.

Crowther. Crowther's decision was communiI cated to the senate Tuesday, having been requested by Senator Erandegee. Berlin, April British Mesopotamia force composed of troops transferred from the Dardanelles were repulsed by Turkish troops in a sanguinary battle lasting six hours near Felahie on April 9, according to a Turkish headquarters report dated April 11. The English division advanced in an effort to relieve the beleaguered garrison at Kut El Amara. The statement adds that more than 3,000 dead British were counted after the battle.

The British defeat is the most disastrous since the beginning of the campaign to relieve General Townsend'a forces besieged at Kut-ElAmara for more than four months. The fighting occurred 23 miles east of Kut-El-Amara in the bend of the Tigris river. The text of the Turkish official statement follows: "Trak front: The British again were badly defeated near Felahie. On April 9, after one hour and a half of heavy artillery preparation, the enemy attacked with all his forces our position near Felahie. The battle lasted six hours.

Reach Turk Trenches. "The enemy at the beginning of the engagement succeeded in entering partially our trenches but the Turkish troops killed with the bayonet those who reached the trenches. The (Continued on Page Two.) FOIL MOVIE PLOT Warrants for Seven for Exhib. iting Willard Fight Pictures. Evaded Law by Re-Photographing Films Near U.

S. Border. New York, April for the arrest of several men alleged to have participated in a recent effort to bring pictures of the Willard-Johnson prize fight into the United States by re-photographing moving picture films across the Canadian border are in the possession of the United States district attorney here today. Of those accused of violation of the law, six are New York men and one a Canadian. The indictments were returned by the federal grand jury at Syracuse, N.

Y. The indicted New York men are Harold T. Edwards, a lawyer; Isaac Wullman, manager of the Duplex Film company; Harry A. Fishbeck, 8 cintemagraph operator; James J. manager of an amusement enterprise; Laurence M.

D. McGuire, president of the New York real estate board, and W. V. Brymer. The Canadian named is J.

J. Orknay. Claim Use Illegal. It is charged the men attempted to evade the law prohibiting the importation of prize fight pictures by setting up a tent on the Canadian border at Rouse's Point, N. and re-photographing the fight films across the border, thus avoiding actual shipment across the line of films made in Havana.

The new films SO made were brought to New York and shown in a private exhibition. It is announced that customs officials virtually have decided to seize the new pictures on the ground that the intent law cannot be defeated by such a process. TODAY'S GAMES National. Boston at Brooklyn, fair. New York at Philadelphia, fair.

Chicago at Cincinnati, clear. Pittsburg at St. Louis, clear. American. Detroit at Chicago, clear.

Washington are New York, clear. Philadelphia Boston, rain. St. Louis at Cleveland, clear..