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TP IT JL JUL ETTE TIMES. Established July 29, 1786 The Weather Fair rti- pfotv'riHtfZ Arfl fair's Fi "I TWO CENTS A COPY PITTSBURGH, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 14, 1915. TEN CENTS A WEEK. GAZ IWfflARGE- --GEIffilAN-. AMIES TRAPPED BY RUSSIANS 1 SOUTH AMERICAN DIPLOMATS, WHO ARE ACTING AVITII WASHINGTON TO RESTORE PEACE IX MEXICO I GUT TEUTON LIRE SLAVS Panj4mericah Appeal Sent to Mexico Leaders; a i 7i rV 7 ALLIES TO TAKE COTTON FROM THE FREE LIST THE BALTIC REGION; fiA.

r- 1 iff I J00 nrys Mh hAj-j i I III SS it rl-j JArmea ivien on Doraer LOSE Tl POLE CITIES HOPE TO WIN CARRANZA MEN FOR PROGRAM 2 II if It Slavs Escaping Warsaw Sack and Stubbornly; Oppose Teuton Advance Big Polish City; Falls and First Real Russian Town, Vladimir-Bolynski, Is Entered After Slavs Burn It. f'AJvV II WST I II II 111 I II wv i i i i mm i i I I i 1 1 II II SLAV RESISTANCE MUST BE BROKEN SECTION BY SECTION LONDON, Aug. 14. Several German army groups in the Russian war theater have fallen into the trap of Grand Duke Nicholas and are in the gravest danger, according to the Daily Telegraph's Petrograd correspondent. "At the moment," the correspondent says, "one of the most interesting points on the Russian front is between the Dvina and Nie-men rivers, where the Russians by the capture of the village of Toviny have cut through the German line, thus separating the German armies operating around Poniewesch and Vilkomir.

The latter army is in a dangerous state and executing a frantic retreat in an effort to extricate itself and either reconnect with the Poniewesch I 3 i i i i CHIME IN'CIII i.rKW DUE TO DRUGS i Contraband Order May Come Soon Will Hurt America's Trade Worst. ASK OUR PATIENCE LONDON, Aug. 13. Lord Robert Cecil, parliamentary under-secretary for foreign affairs, in an interview to- dav defining the British government's I attitude in the complicated cotton sit- uation-made this statement: "The allies must by all lawful means prevent cotton reaching their enemies. It mav be considered necessary to make cotton contraband." Lord Cecil refrained from any hint that the commodity would be removed from the free list at any specified date.

or that the government had any sclu 1 tion to meet demands of American cotton growers and neutral consumers. He stated explicitly that if cotton were made contraband England would consider the act legal and internationally Justified. Step May Come Soon. His statement, the first in behalf of the government outside Parliament relative to cotton, coming when the public demands drastic action to shut off the supply from Germany Is taken to pressage this step soon. Lord Cecil's statement follows: The British government is fully aware of the importance of cotton to America.

We understand that upon a sat sfactory adjustment of the matter depends to a considerable degree the elfare of nearly a quarter of the i opulation of the United States. The welfare of the whole poulation of Great Britain, however, in involved, as well as that of all Great Britain's allies; for' wham, the Brltl'slr goviniment is-axKing. More Important Than Copper. Consideration must be given to a great cotton-producing country like America and to consuming countries like Sweden, Norway and Holland. A policy must be devised which will respect the legitimate rights of neutrals and yet safeguard the legitimate Interests of the allies and In-nict as much damage as possible upon our enemies.

Under our blockade all cotton be- Continued on Second Page. meaTfrbIospenoed WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. Proposed increases ranging from 2 to 5 cents a pound in freight rates on fresh meats, packing house products and provisions from Chicago to Buffalo, Pittsburgh and territory beyond the Ohio River, were held up today by the Interstate hCommerce Commission for Investigation until December 13, on the ground that the public interest might be injured by the advances which have a bearing on rates on cattle In the same territory, now under. Investigation.

CHICAGO ELECTIONS EXPENSIVE CHICAGO, Aug. 13. According to estimates made public by the election commissioners today the elections in Cook county (Chicago) In 1916 will cost $2,307,000. In eight months of the year I the election machinery will be active and polling places will be opened 17 times. The estimate includes' the cost of registration, primaries and elections proper.

WOMAN ROBBED OH STREET Mrs. E. Callan of 227 Boquet street reported to the police that her purse had been opened and $7 in cash and a number of valuable Greek coins had been taken while she was waiting for a street car at Fifth avenue and Smlth-fleld street yesterday afternoon. The police are Investigating. CRUISER SUNK IN NORWAY'S 4 WATERS, CLAIM LONDON, Aug.

Reuter's Tele gram Company has received the following dispatch from Christiana, Norway: The British auxiliary cruiser India was sunk by a German submarine In Norwegian territorial waters, according to the contention of the Norwegian government. It Is officially announced that, just as Norway previously Insisted that the West Fjord In Its entirety Is Norwegian territorial water, the government has, on the occasion of the torpedoing of the India, informed Germany that the West Fjord from time Immemorial has been regarded as belonging to the Norwegian sea territory. This was specifically the case with part of the Fjord when the India was attached. The India was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine August 8. BROWNSVILLE FEARS SACKING BY RAIDERS Band Still at Large Has Proclaimed Intention to Conquer Part of Texas.

A CALL TO ARMS Carranza Editor Advises Mexicans to Defend Independence of Their Country. OUTLAWS CROSS BORDER BlXLETnV-BROWNSVILLE, TEX, Aug. IS. Twenty men crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico tonight near Mercedes, about 49 miles up the Rio Grande from here. American officers, warned that such a crossing would be attempted, had disposed armed posses at several points where the attack was expected.

tonight three of these posses were closing to on the Mexicans, expecting to surround them. BROWNSVILLE, 13. Search for a band of about 39 Mexicans. some of them knows to be direct from Mexico, proceeded tonight In the iws- quite- brush about BO miles north of Brownsville. Meanwhile United States cavalrymen and 1.000 infantrymen on patrol duty between Brownsville and Laredo.

Texas Rangers and peace officers used a swift and effective type' of border justice, Which rapidly ran down fugitive Mexicans of bad records, who are accused in connection with recent raids. The Mexican raiders north of Brownsville are the only ones still undisturbed. The band consists of about half of those who attacked the Norias ranch house Sunday night. Its members in clude' men alleged to have read aloud a proclamation announcing that they were attempting to conquer a part of Texas. At least 35 of the original members of this band came from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, It is said by officers here.

Facts about these raiders" were obtained by Sheriff W. T. Vann of Cameron county and by Capt- A. V. P.

Anderson of the Twelfth United States infantry. Brownsville Fear Attack. Apprehension in Brownsville is felt not only on account of what the Mexicans may do In raids, but as to the truth of reports that In case of any repetition of the Americans landing at Vera Cruz an attempt will be made by Carranza troops in Matamoras to sack Brownsville In reprisal. So strong Is this belief among some leading citizens that pressure will be brought to bear to obtain more troops at Fort Brown, near here, to protect the city. Although the number of Mexicans killed in the raids is given officially as between 15 and 20, it is known that more have been killed.

Several Mexicans nave been shot while resisting Cattaed Smma Pace. COTTOX INTERESTS PROTEST NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 13. A protest against interference by Great Britain and her allies with cotton shipments for neutral nations was forwarded to President Wilson today by the New Orleans Board of Trade. BIG DAMAGE AT JAMAICA FROM STORM KINGSTON.

JAMAICA. Aug. 13. A gO-mile gale over the northeast and south coasts of Jamaica caused considerable damage today. The greatest harm was done to banana and beet plantations In the eastern sections.

Communication has been interrupted and the extent of the loss has not been ascertained. A mail steamer of the United Fruit Company, which put out from King ston, was forced to return to port. A few small vessels were destroyed, but so far as Is known there weie no casualties. The Weather Bureau reports that the storm passed over southern Haiti. Chief Likely to Remain De- fiant, but Generals May Listen to Argument.

GEN. SCOTT IS ENVOY Head of Army Ordered to Remain on Border to Act for State HONORS FOR BRAZILIAN WASHINGTON', Aug. 13. The Pan-American to all elements in Mexico to cease fighting and join in a sincere movement to restore constitutional government, began to go for- Jward from the State Department to night. First the document was dispatched in English to Mexico City, directed to the various Latin American legations whose attaches will translate it into Spanish and deliver it to the military leaders In that vicinity.

Tomorrow the appeal in original Spanish will be forwarded directly to Gens. Vfllaafid governers of' states and many other chiefs In different parts of the country. The text will be made public here within a few days. With the appeal dispatched the United States government will insti tute a friendly and persistent effort to induce Mexican leaders who thus far have shown a disposition to oppose, the movement, to sacrifice their personal views in the common Mexican interest. Carrataa Defiancm Expected.

That Gen. Carranza will maintain thy defiance he had indicated in recent communications to his agency here on the subject is expected by the administration, but it is regarded as probable that many of his generals and other adherents can be induced to join in a peace convention. is believed here that if a few of the Carranza generals participate in a convention of the factions, it will not be long before organized opposition tJ a new government could be effectively checked. In this conrection has been reported that Gen. Hugh L.

Scott, chief of staff of tne army, who is remaining at the bolur at the request the State Department, is expected to perform Impjrant missionary work. Gen. Scott knows many Coattaaed on Seeoaa Paa-e, North Side Woman Killed And Her Husband Injured Mrs. Emma Veder, aged 48, of Geyer road, was killed in an automobile accident near Harmony, yesterday and her husband, Henry Veder, was injured. Mr.

and Mrs. Veder left Pittsburgh yesterday morning for Conneaut, O. When five miles north of Harmony Mr. Veder, who is a contracting stone mason, turned out of the road to allow a horse and buggy to pass. When he attempted to regain the middle of the road the sandy soil caused the automobile to upset.

Mrs. Veder was pinned under It- She was carried to a nearby" farmhouse where she died within a few minutes. Mr. Veder has a broken shoulderblade. News was sent to their sons, Roy and Robert Veder, who hurried to the scene in another automobile.

Mr. Veder was brought home. Mrs. Veders body was brought here. GRAFT IN CHARGED Clerk Accused of Collecting Money From Men Seeking Transfers.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 13. George E. Will, a clerk in the Bureau of Navigation of the Navy Department, was arrested today on a warrant charging conspiracy in that he was concerned in a scheme to obtain sums of money from enlisted men of the navy for transfers.

A negro messenger was arrested early In the week. Government investigators claim to have found evidence of a con spiracy to collect payments ranging from $25 to $50 from enlisted men for transfers and promotions to which they were rightfully entitled. Above, U'tt to right, are Am bassadors Suares of Chili an Da Gama of Brazil and Minister Pezet of Peru. Below is Minister CaJderon of Bolivia. Ill BULLET KILLS SECOND P1TTSBUHGHER News of Death of First Ser-1 geant Harry W.

Rowe Re-; ceived by Brother. BRINGING BODY HERE First Sergt. Harry W. Rowe, aged 35, of Troop Third Cavalry. United States Army, was killed Thursday during a clash between tne mtea States army men and Mexican rebels, near Fort Ringgold, uo uranae, according to: news received by his brother, John Rowe, of 7501 Sen- nett street, yesterday.

No announcement of the death -through government officials at Washington, D. was made, it is said. Sergt. Rowe is tho second Plttsburgher to meet death during the Mexican trouble, the other having been Francis P. DeLowry, killed during the occupation of Vera Cruz, April 1914-At "the Rowe residence in Bennett street It was said no details of how Sergt.

Rowe met his death had been received. The brother said he received a telegram from his mother, Mrs. Mary Rowe of Chicago, III. Mrs. Rowe stated she had received news of her son's death through another son, Charles Rowe, of San Antonio, Tex.

In Service IS Year: Sergt. had been in the United States army service 18 years, and saw active service in the Spanish-American Continued Third Page. SWEDElTBMER left on reef LONDON, Aug. 13. The Swedish steamer Kiruna of 4,670 tons gross, is ashore on the Muckle Skerries.

It is fast on the reef and is likely to be a total wreck. It was abandoned by her crew, which landed today at Wick, Scotland. The Kiruna sailed from Philadelphia July 28 for Stockholm. It carried 6,975 tons of soft coal. KIRKWALL, Aug.

13. The Danish steamer Dania, from New York for Kirkwall and Copenhagen, has gone aground at Laspy Skerry, near Calf of Eday. SCHOOLS MAY TEACH THRIFT SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13. Investi gation of the feasibility of introducing a "thrift" course in public schools will be financed by S.

W. Straus of Chicago, president of the American Society for! Thrift, It was announced today. Plans have been made for a commit- tee from the International Congress for Thrift, which closed its session yesterday at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, to confer with officers of the National Educational Association, which at Oakland, CaL, Monday. meets i i with PTnun or loin nanus wim 1 troops operating around Kovno. "The German army operating in the vicinity of Poniewesch also is in a dangerous position, with its right flank exposed to a Rus sian attack, which could only have the most serious results." Kovno Attack Halted.

PETROGRAD, Aug. 13. The Russian War Office in an official communication tonight admits the evacuation of the towns of Sokolow, Siedlce and Lukow, east of Warsaw, but claims that the Germans in the region of Riga have been driven back and. that near Kovno, under the pressure of the Russians, they have abandoned their attack. Germane Driven Back of the The communication says: In the region southeast of Mitau tae Germans have been driven back by our troops beyond the River A a.

In the course of the enemy's retreat we made prisoners. In the direction of Jacobstadt, Dvinsk and Vilkomir we also have continued to press the' enemy, overcoming his desperate resistance. In the Kovno district the Germans have temporarily abandoned their attack. An artillery engagement continues. On the front between the Narew and the Bug our counter-attack delivered on the eleventh has helped our troops In the sector north of this front in their retreat on the positions situated further back.

In the middle Vistula region. In conformity with the exigencies of the general situation, we have evacuated Sokolow, Siedlce and Lukow. In on the front on which our troops are operating on the left bank of the Bug, there was no im portant engagement yesterday. On the right bank of the Bug and on the Zlota Lipa and Dniester rivers there Is no essential change in the situation. Cyclonic Attack at One Point.

Almost exclusive attention of military observers has recently been dV rected to the operations at Kovno, which is the first strong Russian fortress attacked by the method employed at Antwerp a system devised by the Bavarian Gen. Sauer. This consists of a cyclonic attack with heavy artil- Continued on Second Pare. INJURED TWICE IN THRE DAYS Peter Claire, aged 50, of Frankstown avenue. Is In a serious condition in the Braddock General Hospital.

He fell down a stairway in a residence at Linden and Beach streets. East Pittsburgh, Thursday afternoon. While at work the plant of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, East Pittsburgh, Mon day, Claire crushed his right hand and broke the same arm. Thursday he broke his left arm and injured the fingers so badly on his left hand that they may have to be amputated. He became dizzy on a stairway and fell backward.

U. S. SHIP ANDCARGO FREED WASHINGTON. Aug. 13.

The American oil steamer Wico, taken by German warships to Swinemunde. has been released and facilities have been given for repairs 'to damage when the ship was being (brought into port by the German priie crew. The cargo also was released. Rigid Probe of Munitions Lack to Be Made at Once, Russian Duma Decides I PETROGRAD, Aug. U.

-Details given the press of a secret session of the Duma AugujylO showed that an Inquiry was on to determine the responsibility for the deficiency in war supplies. The demand was made for an immediate correction of the shortage. All speakers emphasized the necessity of calling to account all persons responsible. Gen. Pollvanoft, minister of war, declared that trr.re would be appointed a commission of inquiry.

The council of ministers which is to act will visit the Grand Duke Nicholas. Allies Press Serbs to Yield To Bulgaria Small Slav Nation Reminded of Aid Already Given and More Is Promised. BULGARS WANT OLD TREATY ROME, Aug. 13. It was learned her today on good authority that representatives of Great Britain, France, Italy and Russia are exerting further pressure on Serbia in the hope of inducing her to make the desired territo rial concessions to Bulgaria.

Serbia haa been reminded of the support wnich ah has received since the beginning of her difficulties with Austria last year. Assurances have been given to Serbia that the allies will assist her at the time of peace negotiations provided she now yields to their desires. The Bulgarian Minister to Italy, Rizow, discussing in the Tribuna th negotiations between the Balkan States and the quadruple entente, characterizes as unjust statements that Bulgaria considers herself Indispensable to the allies and is bargaining on that basis. Bulgaria, the Minister asserts, has not changed her program. She was deceived in signing the treaty of Bucharest of 1913, under the terms of which she ceded to Rumania nearly 3,000 square miles of territory.

What Bulgaria now wished, he continued, was reparation based on the principle of nationality for which the quadruple entente is contending. Creek Cabinet Critie Likely. ROME, Aug. 13 The Greek Parliament will open In Athens Monday. King Constantine today conferred with M.

Venizelos, the former premier, who, during his Incumbency, strongly urged Greek Intervention on the side of allies. Venizelos' friends predict a Cabinet crisis, as a result of which the former Premier will return to power. DACIA PAYMENT IS MADE WASHINGTON. Aur 13 Th ond payment on the American-owned cotton on the steamship Dacla was made today at the State Department by the French ambassador. The amount was not made public.

Police Magistrate Sayd He Believes Use Much Dimin ished by New Law. HOSPITAL CASES FEW Crime attributable to the use of drugs has been suppressed to such an extent in Pittsburgh since the Harrison drug act became effective March 1, that Magistrate John J. Sweeney of the Central Police Station, has not had a drug user before him in three months. The use of drugs by persons with criminal tendencies and by young men and boys has been virtually abolished, the magistrate believes. He said yesterday: Immediately after the law went Into effect, however, we had lots of trouble with boys.

Drug users, realizing that the law prohibited druggists from selling more than one treatment on a bought large quantities of heroin and other drugs in advance. With a large supply on hand they naturally used it to greater excess than when there was restriction on the sale of it. At one time, a young drug user told me, there were 250 men and boys In the city who were known as habitual hroln 'snifters' and fully as many girls and women. Now there are virtually none. Phyician Warned.

When the law first went Into effect. Magistrate Sweeney said, there were several Pittsburgh physicians, some of them well known, who did not hesitate to give prescriptions to drug users. After, one physician, a Chinese, had been arrested by feperal ot- (onllnurd OB Third I'nRr. 1 GERMAN GETS 10 YEARS IN CANADA WINDSOR, ONT. Aug.

IS. William Lefler of Detroit was today sentenced to 10 years' Imprisonment Kingston Penitentiary for causing an explosion tn the Peabody overall factory here a few weeks ago and for conspiracy to wreck the Windsor armories. At the time of the explosion the factory was turning out supplies for British soldiers. EASTERN THEATER Germans halted their flcrco attack on Kovno. Took Sokolow and Slcdlce, Poland.

Ke-pulscd south of Illgn. WESTERN THEATER Severe attacks by Teutons wore it pulsed by the French. ITALIAN AUSTRIAN THEATER Austrian warships the Italian "oast, destroying factories, stations and railway line. Austro submarine destroyed. DARDANELLES Turks claimed they repulsed two tsrmsu attacks on Gallipoll peninsula.

SUMMARY OF IB HEWS AUTO RACER KILLED, SONS UNAWARE OF IT, WIN FIRST AND SECOND SPIRIT LAKK. IA, Aug. IS R. E. Ponaldsfin, or Milford.

la, ewnr ef a racing car which won places at Indianapolis and Omaha, was killed instantly tn an automobile race here this afternoon. Mechanician "Wilcox probably was injured fatally. Mr. Ionaidson's two sons won first and second places in the race after the death of their father, not knowing he had been killed. jp j-j mm JT1 KJ lit I.1Y1 filV JUKJiJLLi rp JpnTT ij TT Tpt Qlrp 2 2 iV iiV ILtO 1 AFRICA COLONY PARIS, Aug.

13. A dispatch today from a correspondent In Went Africa reports further successes by troops of the Entente allies in the Kamerun, a German colony In western equatorial Africa. The dispatch says: Allied troops which had entered Garua and Ngaundere in the northern Kamerun succeeded July 18 In occupying the important post of Tlngere In the western section of the colony on a plateau 3,390 feet high between Ngaundere and Kontsha. The enemy fled but July 23 reinforced by a company from Uanjo, counterattacked heavily but was repulsed after a brilliant engagement and ued In the direction of Tibatl. The losses of the allies were slight: those of the enemy heavy.

The capture af Garua and Ngaundere by Franco-British troops was officially reported last EARLY HAIR CUTS LESS Master barbers of McKeesport and Glassport have offered a premium of 10 cents to those who get their hair cut on week days other than Saturday. The kiw price is 25 cents and the high, or Saturday, price Is 35 cents. The new rule goes Into effei't Saturday, September 4. Journeymen oarbers have approved of the change. The tdeals to reduce the number of hair cuttings on Saturday, when barber shops are crowded with men who want shaves.

VOLCANOES NOT THREATENING ROME, Aug. 13. (Via Paris.) Except for a period of activity by Mt. Etna of a nature exclusively Interesting to volcanic experts, none of the great volcanoes In Southern Italy Is unusually active. Neither Vesuvius, Etna nor Stromboll Is now in eruption OUR REPLY TO AUSTRIA OUT MONDAY WASHINGTON.

Aug. 13. The American reply to the Austro-Hungarian note protesting against the shipment of war munitions to the allies, dispatched to Vienna, will be given out here for publication papers. in Monday morning's.