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FIGHT ON BOSTON IISACOLA WEATHER Ideal Summer Resort PENSACOLA IS THE IDEAL SUMMER HE. SORT COOL BREEZES, BATH I NO, BO ATI NO, FISH NO EVERYTHING FOR COMFORT AND PLEASURE. v. irt eMt I tare; Klrhest. 85 degres; mind.

I lowest, 11 degree. l. VOL. XVIII. NO.23.

PENS ACOLA, FLORIDA, MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 16, 1915. PRICE 5 CENTS. ED TOTES FLATLY REJECTS; ALL THE AUSTRIAN CONTENT Z-113- AND GERMAN DOCKS vl I 1 11 LA KV i IONS n. CONVEYING WOUNDED JACKIE TO BIGGEST NAVAL 4 HIC10E 60EI HOSPITAL IN WORLD AT PORTSMOUTH, ENGLAND A A SOlVT ABAIH SHELLING BY PEfJS United States Cannot rd to refiizs War Muni-" it CONSTANTINOPLE IS BOMBARDED BY AEROPLANES SERB AEJ CAPITAL TOWARDS TEXA! to Any Nation. AMERICA MIGHT C'1 AN ATTACK .0 Serbians in Retaliation Are Bombarding Semlin and Pascova.

In BT ASSOCIATED PRESS. London, Aug. 15. An Athens dispatch says French and British aeroplanes flew over. Cchstanti-nople' and dropped bombs-i on Galata, causing: heavy casualties.

Expected to Strike Some Point Between New Orleans and Brownsville. Th-t Ca-c She Would to Buy Munition; Elsewhere. TEUTONS MAY: ALSO INVADE ROUMANIA riATirr trfs. Aug. 15.

The state HIGH WINDS ALL ALONG THE COAST 1 Cl fc made public the a' reply re acting the 'r'i-IIurjjary in the re-! i contended that the 3 -t r- is war munitions from ci Southeast Storm Warning Signals Here Caused Vessels to Watch Storm. Austria's enemies 'were GE IIS A 1 0P. THE CRSIiSH HALF HI UKi HILL Ill Fur a scale to be ince with the definition t- I tii aw ''r' "if -vlly the note flatly de-'rian 'contention and re-'i Germany and Austria Von Buelow's, Army Again on Offensive Against the Russians. -v -s '7 i BT 'ASSOCIATED PRESS. -f1 Aug.

15 The Austrians have resumed the bombardment of the Serbian capital, Belgrade, to he official statement issued "Friday at Nish and transmitted here tonight. In retaliation the Serbians are said to have resumed the bombardment of Semlin and Pascova. i The Serbians announce they, repulsed the Austrian attempts to cross the Dunabe, near the Serbian and Roumanian frontiers. Military experts here believe this region will be the next scene of the Austro-German offensive. 1 and er war sold munitions when the "lost exactly similar 3 The tropical hurricane, which the weather has been anxiously watching since it made its appear- ance last week in the West Indies, proceeding up towards the gulf coatt, probably' will strike in at some point between New Orleans and Brownsville early this morning.

The passing of the hurricane out in the gulf caused very high winds at Pensacola and this section, while the tide in the bay was high, with the big waves of the gulf breaking up on Santa Rosa ie1e4 -j 1 Peculiar Situation Results When Teutons Secured 'Possession Hill CO. namely, that the -nmeJ in by the British rble to receive outside 3 ari BT ASSOCIATED PRBSS. Dunkirk, France, Aug. 15 The 4. present position at Hill 0, which Brit ia the form of shipments of any It al-a points out that before and since that war Austria and Gersnany Lava produced a great snr-y-lits of war r-unlt'ons and sold them throughout world, especially to llixernis, red nerer during- that cjj cf them suggest or srp7 tiia pri nciple cow advocated by ftere Is some speculation whether Austria and Germany will attack ish military authorities recently admitted had lapsed back into German possession, 'is peculiar and of great interest.

Roumania as Serbia, because of Roumanian refusal to allow German raunitierft' to pass through 'her Tlie bill is really nothing but a territory, for Turkey. Reports this week say the Austro-Germans- massed approximately four The display of northeast storm warning signals at Pensacola yesterday caused shipping to prepare for the blow that had been anticipated for several days. The weather bu- came at 5 o'clock fol- IowIngi a lday in the wind blew 6teadilyiwith considerable force. The warning was couched. aa'i'foilows: -warnings ardered 5 p.

m. from, New Orleans to Brownsville, Texas, and northeast 'storm warnings from' Pass Christian' to Pensacola. knoll of gently rising ground that forms the end of the Klein-Zillebeke ridge. The German trenches run in a tve crest trp- hundred! thousand men -elong the i ii mn II 'V'' principles of intermitional ret says, "the practices cf the cf the r-tvii J5rat t. A irJili.iry I' riavnl rtJ9 tii'T ri' iT'r Serbiari frdfttier, but there4a nothing yet to Indicate an Invasion of Serbia.

form tlie, prevertioa cf in- The Serbian 'statement said there is no-loss of life at and the of the lower Th Ger The naval" the world is located at. Fcrtsmouth, on 'the "English 'ChhahnelT the the i arrives a cstiea, bombardment ceased when the Ser mans are at the to? of the hill, while the British are a little way up the cf reacefsl 'methods for companying illustration is shown a wounded 'jackie being carried by from a. designed auto, which Just came from the wharf, into the The tropical gtorm is central over the east-central moving northwest. bians bombarded Semlin and Pascova, which Is opposite Belgrade. side of it.

ill probably reach Texas or Louis -neat international -ly, ne-atraMty itself, -posed the prohibition by a I E3ti i cf the exportation of or. cf war to belligerent GERMANS TAKE OFFENSIVE. General von BueIows army again The whole face of the hill presents a picture of the wildest confusion. Everywlire are huge craters, the result, of rune explosions on the night are in ALIANS ANDGERMANSELASH is taking the offensive west of the river Dvinsk, and, according to Berlin, has beaten the Russians near of the British attack. Torn and gaping sandbags are scattered in prof asion, broken rifles, odds and ends Kubisco and pushed them back in a A3 FORMER LEAVE FOR THE WAR northeasterly direction, taking two thousand prisoners south of here.

0WTri during a war. "rJ 1 Th rota then speciScally states that the Elates is a nation 13 not applied with a larg-e i or great supply of r.Ki'Jina, and if attacked 11 1 if not fatally. if catioRS refused to sell Therefore, the United talcs, far Cij reason, as well as a of equipment of all kinds, smashed barb-wire, and mass of other debris lies in bewildering variety down the hillside, the whola hs.lf-hidden ln the long grass that has sprung up be Reservists and Sailors on Interned; Ships Fight in "Boston; Pencacpla Leads tHe orld In Sliipmentc Lumber tween the trenches. The trenches twist' and wind hi remarkable manlier- At one point desires the eon-iternatioaal practice r-sticr cf pur th? 3 another rauni- iana coast by Monday morning. AH shipping advised to remain in port," The barometer was low at all gulf ports last night.

At 7 o'clock station which reported showed the Apalachicola 29.90, Pensacola 29.83, Tampa 29.92, Miami Mobile 29.88, New Orleans 29.80, Galveston 290, Corpus Christi 290, Brownsville 29.74. i Pensacola showed the' highest wind velocity of any of the mother porta at -7 o'clock. At that hour the wind was blowing a gale of 26 mfles from the east, while at no other point did the velocity exceed 16 niCes DASH OVER; ISLAND Parties who were on the island yesterday, and some who arrived on "earners from up the sound reported that, not a few times during late yesterday waters from the guif washed oyer Santa Rosa Island, in the low places to the far eastward. Those who jtronized the boat excursions oEhd thrilling Msht lives, witnessing the most magnificent surf that -it was- ever the fortune-nf many of them to see, and the noise made by the rolling breakers was terrin cf one r.t'ea tioKS d-ri" 3 United EL there is an old communication trench running frora the: British lines straight into the heart of the German position, aad down this two barricades have been erected, one on the English r. It also points out i is willirLg'to sell The Germans claim the Russians made an unsuccessful so'rtie from Kovno, which the Germans are approaching.

'y In the; Polish section the Germans are slowly advancing on Brest-Kitovsk. While they continue to take prisoners, they claim no capture of artillery or booty, which indicates the Russians continue their orderly and that for a long time the Germans will be unable, on account of the Russians, to detach any part of their 4 array for large ventures 4 In the west the forest of Argonne and the Vosges mountains continue to: ibe scenes of but no serious battles are In progress. Diva iiL'D Decrease of 52 Per Cent In Exports During the Past Year. i to Austria ar; 1 Germany, ana is net tha United States' fault if they ra not ia pr-sitioa to secure the i- I BT- ASSOCIATED PRESS. Boston, Aug.

15- Several policemen were hurt, and sailors aboard the interned German steamers Amer-ika and Cincinnati hit by sticks and stones, and the port holes and the deck fittings of the liners smashed, when thirteen hundred Italian reservists, preparing to sail tonight aboard side and one on the German side. ITere the opposing forces come within six yards cf each eth-r. Between the rival barricades thsra stretches a VBT ASSOCIATED PRESS. inn New Orleans, Aug. V) According Ehcrt patch cf eroL shut In on either hand by the crumbling walls to the report of the lu.

iber exports for the fiscal year that ended June Torpedo the Canopic, and their friends, made cx te eld trcshXr SO, published in the current issue of a demonstration against the German At one rpot a railway bridge spans the British position, and In the cut There is no news from the Darda ships. The trouble started when the nelles, but Information Is "expected hourly of the movement of which the ting beneath it a large pool of atag-nant water has collected. Beyond ft Italians-' spied two stewards of the Austrian Sub illiE DISCUSSED Speaker -r Makes Appeal to Lawyers for Aid in Com-N batting the Evil. landings last week were the pre stretches the railway line, the rails liminaries. Cincinnati In uniforms on the docks.

Later the United States customs station was stoned. The police fired torn and twisted, and partly covered the Lumber Trade Journal of New Orleans, the past year's exports of all items under the head, of wood and its manufactures, decreased fifty-two per cent, the value 1 being approximately -forty-nine million, compared to the hundred and three million last year. 4 Exports from individual ports of the gulf and South Atlantic ports -r, I5v-Ifc was officially wiua weeds growing between the ties. The lines is under direct fire over the heads of the crowd, and the -3 tc-f ht that the sinking shots were returned, but no bullet AcstrSr.a nbraarine U-3 in the wounds were reported. There were Adriatic Sea, t-aocneed last week, from German lines, and to cross it in the open would mean certain death from snipers in the opposite trench forty yards away.

In the pool below ten. arrests. viui b7 ths IYt--ch torpedo boat de- Summary Shows a Fearful Toll of Vessels Lost 'Show New Orleans, Gulf port, Mobile BT ASSOCXATTO PRESS. Toledo, OJ Aug. 15 The Amer ttneyer Tirscn, which pursued the and Pensacola hold the lead in the 'H-- all la-f-t afternoon, ican Federation of Catholic Societies, tne bridge a score or more of bodies have been lying for some and volume of shipments, but "all with a TT 7T.

1 tllzd by rsJ ether rrenh de in annual convention here today dls- decrease and with Pensacola having lviia snipmcn arc no man dares approach to bring them cussed divorce and kindred evils. One t'lroyers, her 7ednes- out lor burial. shipped more than any of the others, having shipped hundred and of the principal' addresses was made 7 EacrsLss. 11.3 rrench captured 1 Eifsi sa nicer and eleven London, Aug. 15.

Lloyd's statisti by Frederick W. Mansfield of Boston, thirty-two million, three hundred and Of course it was only a few places where the water was reported to have been forced over the island, and rftWs was the case, it is said that it would be. the first time since the terrific storm Of 1906 when several cuts were made through the sandy Wand, and through which waters from the bay and gulf would meet. Some who arrived from up the ound yesterday were sure the water did not completely run over the Island, opposite Deer Point beacon, but lL that tte from the gulf irent many feet inthe air as billow afterbfllow broke over the sandy beach. While these were not wCHnJ to say they saw any such sight, they 1 were not unwilling to say that such did happen.

The spot where the water was reported to have ran over the island Is far to the eastward, and nowhere near the spot where the navilion is test ANNUAL FAST OF cal summary of vessels of tons upwards totally lost, condemned or twenty-five thousand feet the past Dismissed From Naval Academy year. THE MUSSULMAN who appealed to all -lawyers of Roman Catholic faith to help the church combat the divorce evil by refusing to accept divorce cases as part of coal rnori WALTS TO mAKCi: BT ASSOCIATED PRESS. Paris, Aug. 15- The Turco Al their business. otherwise removed showed: that during the year 1914, the effective mercantile marine of the world was reduced by 667 vessels of 926 ,134 tons, of which 491 were steamers of tons and 275 sailing vessels of Mr.

Mansfield said: gerian riSeman rifleman and other soldiers of the Hohammedan faith "Catholic laymen could do much to BT ASSOCIATED PRESS. Washington, Aug. 15. The of the court of Inquiry which Hurricane is 1 40 Miles off Mouth of the Mississippi help the church eradicate the divorce evEU The time is not yet ripe to ad 184450 tons. This is an increase from other parts of Africa serving in the French array, now drink their investigated the examination for irregularities at the naval academy vocate legislation which would abol coffee at sunset, take their lunch over the figures of 1913 of 388,000 tons and is due almost wholly to war operations.

ish divorce but at least thirty minutes later and have their dinner at midnight. This turning ef The United" Kingdom lost 101 ea ed. "4 much "might; be to check its spread and to lessen its evQ influence. In Massachusetts a Catholic Lawyers League" has been organized, its object being the extirpation of divorce. 1 1ts sels of 229,179 tons by warships or by mines while the figures for Ger night into day is the consequence of the Ramadan, the annual fast of the Mussulman, extending over a period BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

New Orleans, Aug. 16. Brazilian many are 13 vessels of 67,641 tons. CarcL, T'ales, Aug. 15.

Consider-IU ir.tcrett is tsisg taken in ship- circlas ia a of" a h.irr of artng --Welsh. coal to Vrnnca and paia. The barge plan i 1 -ra adopie-i because of great ia handlir coal at porta the war. 'As some tens of coal were export ia 1913 the method as-turr rs' consl.der&bls importance to the coal trad. jeo eailig vessels of 2S0O too I i weight each have been pnrchsS-1 nd trumed into sea-going barges; ra will be "towed to their destina-t r3 ehJ dropped at the entrance to h3 port to await berthing facilities set sj coal hulh3.

Liners can also from the or the latter can 5 river and canal communica- From the city, and with the naked eye, persons with good eye-eight could see the breakers frora the gulf roll over the gulf beach and whiten as of a month from July 13 to August Apart from the war, the greatest 12, during which he abstains from constitution has just been approved by IHs Eminence Cardinal O'Conne 11 and much good is expected of its losses of the world's shipping are under the heading of 258 they spead over the shores. 7 food and drink every day, between dawn and sunset. with disciplinary action and dismissals were approved by Secretary Daniels and President Wilson, were made public tonight. Midshipmen Ralph M. Nelson, Jr of Peekskill, New York, and Charles M.

Beagle, of WeUsville, Ohio, were dismissed and twelve others ordered disciplined. The board recommended sweeping changes cf the methods of conducting the Secretary Daniels is considering these, which Include abolishing the giving of advance information and suggests not making examinations so difficult as vessels of 2S8.470 tons or 40 to 45 work. Following the rule established last Minister Cardosa, enroute here aboard the United gunboat Sacramento, did not reach here tonight, the "Sacramento advising by wireless she was delayed by a strong wind. Elaborate entertainments are planned to welcome Cardosa. The storm seemed to be one hundred and forty miles off the mouth PREPARE FOR BLOW.

AH shiprfn port before dark yes per cent of the total losses beine thus "We earnestly urge upon every classified. terday made ready for some hard While the United Kingdom has lost Those vessels anchored In the stream dropped extra anchors Catholic lawyer in every, state in this Union the importance and even the necessity- of joining such an (organization. The lawyers have more opportunities to combat the divorce year, to respect the religious feasts of all 1 soldiers In the French army and facilit5 their observance, the minister of ordered that the commissary department furnish supplies to the Mohammedan soldiers in accordance with their traditions. Z2 per cent of the tonnage and 2.43 per cent of the vessels, owned, the losses of neutral countries total 27 per cent and 2.62 per cent re- of the Mississippi- river tonieht. very early in the afternoon, while all vessels at the docks had crews patting moving All ships re mained in port.

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