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NO. 148
ALLIES FORCE
BULBAR LINES
IN MACEDONIA
Present Thrust from Saloniki Long
Expected Offensive British and
French Cross Border, Capturing
Villages German Advance in Do
brudja Continues.
LONDON, Sept. 12. Reports from
the Macedonian front today point
more strongly Hum ever to llio prob
ability Hint the present thrust of the
entcnlu forces inav be the long-expected
generul offensive uioveinent
from this base.
Of the armies of five nations as
sembled on this front, reported from
some sonrees to number 000,000 men.
the British and French are known to
be exerting heavy pressure, the Brit
ish along the Klnuua front, northeast
of Saloniki, and the French northward
alone; the Vnrdar on the Serbian bor
der. T'rench troops also are co-opernt-iug
with the Ilritish in the more east
erly operation, where, like their allies,
they have crossed the Struma, cap
turing the village of Yeniniah, on the
easterly bank, within ten miles of
Dcniir-Hissnr. Tho Ilritish have
seized additional trenches across the
river to the- southeast and according
to a news dispatch from Athens the
Bulgarians are in retreat after a
thirly-six-hoiir battle in which they
suffered heavv losses.
French Offensive.
West of the Vardar, near Mn.jadng,
four miles south of Uievgeli, Paris
reiorts a vigorous offensive by the
French and their allies rcsuljing jn
the penetration of Bulgarian positions
to a depth of nearly half u mile on
a two-mile front. The artillery and
infantry are also being vigorouslv em
ployed further west along Hie front,
the entire length of which now seems
to be buzzing with activity.-
German army headquarters an
nounces heavy fighting along both the
Struma and the Vardar, declaring the
operations in the latter region result
ed unsuccessfully for the Bulgarians.
la the Rumanian province of Dob
i.,,,i; iiw, ,i.-.,,. np ft,,, n. , 1. ...
and Germans, who are commanded by
Field Marshal Von Mackensen, is
continuing, Berlin declares.
The Kussinn campaign in the Car
pathians is making further progress,
according to l'etrograd. Berlin an
nounces the repulse of Kussinn at
tacks in this sector.
Evacimte Ivavala.
In Macedonia the Bulgarians are
reported to have evacuated, the forts
at Kavala which they occupied last
month when they pushed their left
flank forward on the Aegean coast.
Guns of allied warships now domin
ate Kavala, rendering the forts use
less to the Bulgarians, who are said
to have turned them over to the
Greeks. London dispatches indicate
a growing belief that Greece may
shortly be found actively on the side
of the entente allies in the Balkan
field.
Should she enter the war. however,
she will do so, it is said, without the
guarantees of territorial advantages
offered her in the past.
TALKS FOR WAR
BKHL1X, Sept. 12. Xo pence will
be made by Germany which will not
place her in a better position than she
occupied before the war. declared
King Ludwig of Bavnrin in a speech
inaugurating the new pulacc of jus
tice at Nuremburg.
"Wc do not know how Ion? the war
will go on," said the king in his nd
dress, "but wc know to a certainty
that we shall make no pence which
lowers us, hut only such a eacc as
will give us n better position than we
had before.
"Long before the war broke out I
said reeatedly that we could not be
grateful enough towards our emperor,
who had long maintained peace. In
spite of our emperor's pacificism we
are engaged in the greatest of wars
and we shall he able to withstand it.
thanks to the tenacity and resistance
of our brave troops."
BAVARIAN LEADS
GERMAN ARMIES
E
Crown Piince Rupprecht Assumes
Over-Command Entrusted With
' Direction of Operations Against
Allied Offensive Commands Be
arrange-.! by Von Hindenburg.
BERLIN, Sept. 17. Crown Prlnco
Rupprecht of Bavaria has ' now as
sumed the over-command of the Ger
man armies on the Sonuno front. He
is entrusted with the general direc
tion of operations against the Anglo
French offensive. All troops assigned
to this task are placed under his con
trol, making possible the distribution
of reserves and the employment of all
the means to the best advantage
under a unified plan.
Tho appointment of Prince Rup
precht was effective before the latest
yislt of an Associated Press corres
pondent to Baupme last July, but the
news could not be cabled until the an
nouncement In the official army
headquarters report of today which
reveals a general re-arrangement of
commands brought about by the ap
pointment of Field Marshal Von Hln
donburg as chief ot staff. The new
order divides the western front Into
three sectors and assigns these to
three princely commanders, who re
gardless of reasons ot policy which
dictated their appointments to com
mands of armies at the beginning of
the war, have won their spurs by
tho successful conduct of operations.
They are regarded here not as figure
heads, hut as generals of experience
and distinction.
'Duke Albrecht, prospective heir' to
the kingdom of Wurttomberg, who
is In command of the northern sec
tor before the war, had risen to the
rank of general and corps com
mander. He Inflicted the first great
defeat on the French in the dash
through Belgium. Crown Prince Rup
precht, in command of the central
sector, was the victor In the battle In
Lorraine, which crushed and repulsed
the French Invasion of Germany in
1914. The crown prince has the
over command in the Verdun 3ector.
I
I'AIUS, Si'pt. 12. iSpain must de
ride in favor of one or the oilier
groups of belligerents in t he opinion
of Antonio Maura, former premici
and leader of the conservative party
aceordinij- to news dispatches from
Madrid, quoting an address delivered
Iw- Senor Maura.
The address was delivered at IJar
aujia, near Bilbao, at a meeting at
tended by 0000 MuuristHs. The for
mer premier declared, according to
the dispatches, that Spain could not
abandon her neutrality, but that the
conditions of the war made her iso
lation henceforth impossible. Me is
quoted as saying that it was more
over essential that Krnnce and Kn in
land should not be hostile towards
Spain.
The Madrid dispatches predict that
Senor Maura's speech will cause a
strong impression throughout the
country, as his prestige was never so
high as at present.
The majority of his followers are
supifosed to be pro-German in their
sympathies.
CAMP VT1TIIYCOMBF., Or., Sept.
12. Mustering out of the Ihird Ore
gon infantry regiment was started
here todav. Within a week the entire
regiment will he no longer in the fed
eral service. It waft stated that prac
tically all the men will take the new
national guard oath, as provided by
the Hay net. after they have been
miii-tcreU out t federal service.
ON SOMM
MUSTERED OUT VER!N
CHILDREN FIGHT BESIDE THEIR F jUBSJl THE SERBIAN JUBWY RIOTING IRKS
ifrivnr.ni s ' : TRACTION SHE
w So W- JWi I N NEW YORK
lluby soldiers of Serbia are shown
was wounded In the arm and hand by
feet; the other' Is barefooted.
I.OXDON', Sept. 12. The political
situution in the near east is of no less
interest to European capitals than
the military outlook, and it is believ
ed important changes ure pending.
The reasons which prompted Premier
Ziiimus of Greece to present his res
ignation are not set forth in the dis
patches from Alliens except that he
complained internal incidents were
in-eventing him from dealing with the
external situution. II is believed in
London that his offer to resign was
due to the fact that he accepted the
post on the understanding that he
was to mil itit itin neutrality and that in
view of the Bulgarian occupation of
Greek territory he finds this no longer
possible.
Should Greece decide lo join (he
entente she will do so, it is under
stood here, without unv guarantee for
the future. There was a lime when
the entente was ready to offer Greece
territorial advantage in' return for
her military assistance. That time
has passed and if Greece now conies
in, according to report, she must
waive any ('ondilions.
English political writers say thai
the purpose of the visit of King Fcr
dinnnd'ol' Bulgaria lo limperor Will
iam is believed to bcb lav down con
ditions on ,which ' ilulfraiia will eon
linue to fijilll.
EAPOL
TO ALLIES' ENVOYS
ATIIKNS, flrcece, via London,
Sept. 12. The reirrrts ot! Kinj: Con
stantine for (he violations of the
French legation by ruffians who fired
shots there during the meeting of tho
entente ministers on Saturday, wore
expressed to the French minister to
day by ('omit Mercati, the hint's
irrand ma-dcr of ceremonies. An
Kjryntian (ircck named 'audopnukw
has confessed he was hired with
forty deni.ens of the gnu house dis
trict of Athens to cause the disturb
ance. Labor troubles continue. The
employes of the streetcar lines of
Athens and Piraeus have struck and
the postal and telegraph employes are
now thrcntcninv to rptit work on ac
count of the increased eot of living.
AfdESll
BfRLI.VGTOX, Vt., Sept. 12.
The direct primary was given Its first
test In Vermont today with popular
Interest centered In the triangular
fight for the republican nomination
for Tutted Btates senator. The can
didates are Senator Carrol S. Page,
Governor Charles W. Gates, and for
mer Governor Allen. W. Fletcher.
here afu'r being laken captives. 1 no youngest or tliese little fighters
scmpncl.' Two of tliese little warriors have sacking tied about their
IN PEACE PARADE
BAN FUANC1SCO, Sept. 12. As
sistant District Attorney .lames F.
Brennan, in a statement to the jury
In the murder trial of Warren K. Bil
lings, charged with planting the
bomb that exploded (luring the pre
paredness day parade, outlined the
stops the prosecution hopes to take
I in securing convictions against Bil
lings, Thomas Alooney and the three
other defendants in the cases. Bren
nan said he hoped to prove the ex
plosion was a part of a conspiracy
entered Into In 1913 by Billings,
Mooney and others "to terrorize
peoplo who did not coincide with
their peculiar ideas of social condi
tions." Billings has been connected with
various dynamite plots In different
parts of the country for the past,
three years, Brennan said. "Ho told
employes of the Ford factory, where
he worked hero, that he rocelved
$250 for throwing a bomb In Chicago
and when he left the factory he said
he was going to New York to throw
another bomb," Brennan said.
"The defendant has an unusual
knowledge of dynamite and he was
In the gang that dynamited power
poles near San Bruno. Ho also car
ried dynamite to Sacramento and met
Alooney there."
Brennan said Billings had a suit
case bontb ready to explode on, June
It, the first date of the preparedness
parade, but hid It near Tanforan
when the parade was postponed. if
also said ho would prove that bull
hearings and bullets packed in lae
suitcase were identical with those
found In his room when arreHtcd.
"And we have witnesses who saw Bil
lings plant the bomb," ho concluded.
I'LATTSIilliUII, N, Y., Sept"; 12.
Charles T. Hughes spent loduy, I he
last day of hi- campaign (rip. in
Plultsbtirglt. lie vi.-itcd the mililary
training eiimp. He will -peak lonight.
Mr. Hughes today made this ,-tate-ment
concerning the Maine election:
' "I am deeply "ratified by the re
sult. Wc shall go forward with re
newed confidence."
REMOVAL OF CAPITAL
FROM BISMARCK KILLED
msMAiicK, x. i) Sept. rj.He-
moval of the stale capitol from llis
marck lo Xew liockl'oi'd will not be
submitted lo a referendum on llie
Xoveuiber election under a liccishin of
the state supreme court today. The
court held the initiative act, under
which removal was sought, is inoperative.
LOSS OF G1NCHY
TO ALLIED FORCES
llUItUX, Sept. 12. Tho German
official report today, recounting mili
tary operations in France, admits tho
loss of tho town of Glnchy.. It says
"Western theater: : Crown Prince
Rupprecht of Bavaria On both sides
of the Somme enemy attempts to at
tack generally were frustrated by our
curtain of fire. In the Fourcaux and
Lecze woods the enemy attempted to
gain ground by hand grenade fight
ing. The village ot Glnchy fell Into
the hands of the enemy early Sunday
morning. An artillory battle con
tinues with violence.
"Eastern theater: Prince Leopold
of Bavaria -Xorth of Stara-Czer-
wlsc.o a Itussiaa attack with strong
forces broke down with heavy losses
before our entanglements.
"Archduke Charles: In tho Car
pathians enemy attacks In tho region
of tho I.otdowa railway, on Clmbros
lawak and on Kapul were repulsed.
In a counter attack of Cinihroslawak
170 prisoners were taken."
WASHINGTON, Sept. Ili. Ambas
sador Guthrie al Tokio cabled the
slate department today that Hie Jap
anese foreign minister hail informed
him there was nothing: in .Inpun's de
mands upon China in conneciion with
llie Shciii? Chialiiii incident that in
fringed the ,-o erecnty of China or
impaired tile Kool-Takahirii agree
ment. In making public the report (he de
partment, revealed Hie fact ihnt Hie
ambassador had been instructed to
advise llie foreign office that the re
port of the demands published in this
country "had greatly disturbed the
Aincric.::: roverninent. which trusted
that it ivn. md true."
OF
t,ONrON Sept. l:i.r A flipalch to
Uuydis from Onion mi.vh that t'urly-j-nvcii
nH'mljrix of Uv aww nf iu
N'onvpidn HlcmiHT Kli.nln'lli IV IkmI
been liiiifU'il n( Simma by lb1 Orrck
Mriimor lYUili-is.
Tlie Kliz.ibrlli IV mi'iomril -1812
ton ami wh last rHMiiN'd at Colom
bo on An:ul II. She was on her
way o .lni-cillc from Shanliai.
Minikin, Si.,,t. rj. Tlie Nov
'.vcitin stearn-hip f,yri't horn, tt.'IO
tons ii'M" unit owned in lieijseii, bus
been sunk.' The dvw wu Uiiidcd.
Elevated Trains Bombarded With
Bricks and Stones First Serious
Accident When Trolley Car Jumps
Track at Curve Number Strikers
Increasing Congestion Worse.
KKW YOliK, Sept. 12. Tin; first
rious accident of the street rail
way striko in this city occurred curly
today when n trolley car ot; the Union
Hallway company in the llronx, oper
utcd by a "green" niotorman, got be
yond control on a steep grade and,
jumpiii" the truck at a curve, crashed
into two jitney busses, killing two per
sons and severely injuring thirteen
others. Four of tho injured may die.
"he car crew was. arrested pendinj
invest igut ion.
After u night of intermittent riot
ing, inotnruion on the Sixth and Ninth
avenue elevated roads reported to the
police that they had been fired upon
bv strikers from root' tops. Third
avenue elevated trains were repeal
edly bombarded with bricks and
stones from buildings. One passen
ger, a woman, was struck on the head
and seriously injured. Four arrests
were iiiadc.
' Congestion Grows.
The congestion on the subway and
elevated roads today was even more
lii'oiiouneed limn yesterday, duo lo the
fact that there was little .or no ser
vice on the surface lines of Manhnt
luu and the llronx. Not u car wheel
moved in the Westchester cities of
Yonkers, Mount Vernon and New
Uochelle. . ..
fnion IcnderMclaiin hundreds of
subway and elevated employes have
joined the union within the last (wen
tv-four hours. Traction officials
mnintain that nil of their employes
who signed the "muster and servant 1
contract remain loyal.
' 1 lilgh 1 Frnyne, slain organizer of
the American Federation of Labor,
insisted todny that a general walk
out by all labor unions wns not being
considered. He said the present
plans of (he lenders contemplated
calling out the unions closely allied
to the striking railroad men.
John T. liiley, chairman of the In
tcrnntioiiiil Longshoremen's union,
declared that the members of his or
ganization, numberine- between SHOO
and 10,000, are considering the ad
visability of calling a sympathetic
strike.
Violence Continues.
Violence continued as Ihe day went
on. Strikers mid sympathizers halted
surface ears ilnd set upon (he crews
of strikebreakers when the hitter re
fused to desert I heir posts.
Nearlv 100 strikebreakers, most of
them from Chicago and Boston, ap
pealed to Mayor Milchel and the pub
lic service commission, claiming that
none of Hie promises made when they
were engaged had been kept and that
they1 were virtually prisoners in car
barns. They alleged that armed
guards prevented Ihcin from leaving
and that wages due them were noi
forthcoming.
ihe mayor promised them poller
protection in their efforts to eollec
wages.
ON SOMME FRONT
LONDON, Sept. 12. Tho follow
Ing official statement was given out
here today:
"Yesterday evening our heavy ar
lillery caused two large conllagra
tlona In the enemy's ammunition rie
pot at Grand Court. There was some
hostile artillery activity during the
night against our lines botweon Del
vlllo wood and Mouquct farm. Other,
wise there were no developments."
PAltIS, 33pt. 12. "South of the
Somme an cne'ny, attack against one
of our trcucno cast of lielloy-en-Sjn
terro was repulsed easily by nienin ot
grenades" says the official announce
went from the war office today.
"A minor operation enabled us to
occupy a llonran trench south r.t
Ulciy coniotory. Kverywhere else
there was the usual cannonading dur
ing the night,"
G. 0. P. VICTORY
MAINEELECTION
T
Milliken for Governor Gets 13,800
Maiority, Hale ami Fernalil for
Senate by Smaller Majorities
Congressional Delegation and the
State Legislature Republican.
l'OUTLANl), Me., Sept. 12. Tho .
largest vote in the history of Maino
was cast at the stuto election yester
day. The total vote will approximate
l,"0,000. In the lust presidential
year and two veins ugo it fell below
1 l-'OOO.
The receipt today of the vote from
the border and a few isolated towns
increased the plurality '-of Curl E.
Milliken, republican, for governor,
over Governor Oakley S. Curtis, dem
ocrat, from the indicated figures of
LI.OOO Inst night to 1.1,800. Indicated
pluralities for the other republican
candidates were confirmed by a re-
ision of Ihe vote. The republicans
have solid delegations in both
branches of congress and will easily
onlrol both houses of tho legisla
ture. Vote of Maine national -guardsmen
in Texas was proportionate.
l)y a vote of about four to one, the
liters approved the state law lim
iting- tlie employment of women and
children to fil'tv-four hours a week.
Vote I'pon Senators.
Pluralities for tho republicans, who
will send a solid delegation to con
gress was practically unchanged from
the figures of last night, as wero the
pluralities ot Frederick Hale and
former Governor Bert M. Fernald, '
who wero elected to the United States.
senate., .. .. ,. . ' ;.:
The republicans, who have-hold a
majority In tho state sonate, will con
trol both houses by a good working
majority.
The revised vote for governor and
United States senators follows:
Governor Milliken, republican,
79,902; Curtis, democrat, CO, 547.
United States senators Hale, re
publican, 78,004; Fernald, republi
can, 79,308: Johnson, democrat, 68,
273; Sills, democrat 66,832.
Congressmen: Goodall, republi
can, 10,732; Stevens, democrat, 16,-
103; White, republican, 19,175; Mc-
Gllllcuddy, democrat 18,770; Peters,
republican, 18,277; Bunker, demo
crat, 18,277; Hersey, republican.
15,000; Pierce, democrat, 11,013.
Daniels Comment.
WASHINGTON Sept. 12. Com
menting on the Maine election today.
Secretary Daniels claimed tho result
was a democratic victory and that
when national Issues wero In con
sideration, the progressives voted
with tho domocrats.
"This Is shown," said the socretar.v,
"by the fact that Mllllkin, tho re
publican candidate tor governor, get
77,000 votes and the two ropubllena
candidates for senator each got
about 7,000 less. There Is nothing
discouraging In the result. .
"Malno ought to have about 50,
000 republican majority. Instead, we
cut It down to about 13,000. Tho
result Is a democratic victory."
SISTER IN ILLNESS
XKW LONDON, Conn., Sept. 12.
President Wilson today remained near
his sister, Mrs. Anna K. Howe, who.
is critically ill here, Ilis plans de
pended largely on the outcome of her
sickness. During the forenoon the
physician attending the president's
sister issued the following bulletin:
"Mrs. Howe hud a comfortable
night. Her condition remains about
the same."
This news was immediately for
warded to the president on the May
flower. Soon afterwards the presi
dent and Mrs. Wilson came ashore
and went to Mrs. Howe's hotel.
SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS
HOLDING PRIMARIES
ATLANTA, CIh Sept. 12.- Demo
ernls of three southern stales, (leor- :
gia, .South Carolina and Louisiana,
Imlhdcd today in contests for Hie
nominations equivalent lo election
for stale ami couuly officers.
MAJORITIES CU