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GERMANS ARE LOSING IN POLAND
RUSSIANS RESUME OFFENSIVE AND ARE MAKING GAINS
GERMAN AIRMEN DROP BOMBS INTO CITY OF DOVER
. ARTILLERYDUELS continue in western battlezone
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SIMM 10
JOIN ALLIES
Servia Has Agreed To Return Ter
ritory Taken After Second
Balkan War.
4, LONDON, Dec. 24.—Bulgaria is to
join the Servians in the fight against
Austria and the Turks. This is an
nounced here today. The Servians
have agreed with the Bulgarians to
return the territory taken from Bul
garia after the second Bulgarian war.
The Balkan Slavs, Servians, Monte
negrins, Rumanians and Bulgarians
are to fight the Turks and the Aus
trians. Bulgaria is anxious to jom
the fight at the present time, fear
* ing that should the Allies continue to
be successful and especially the Ser
vians continue the line of victories
over the Austrians that the price for
aid will not be as hgh as at pres
ent. Bulgaria is to be recompensed
' by securing the territory lost to Tur
key.
. NO HE BOOZE
FOR THE RUSSIANS
'Government Monopoly Has Been End
ed and Spirits No Longer Man
ufactured In Russia.
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PETROGRAD, Dec. 24— For four
days no arrests have been made in
this city for drunkenness. The gov
ernment prohibition order is being
carried into effect strictly and the
government no longer manufactures
spirits. The government has sacri
ficed income for the welfare of its
people at a time when money is sore
ly needed. How great the sacrifice
is to promote temperance can be bet
ter understood when it is remembered
that in September the income from
sale of spirits was $852,000, while
for the same month a year previous
the income was $38,298,215.
The number of kegs of spirits sold
in September was 102,714, while in
September, 1913, 9,130,297 kegs were
sold.
* ENGLAND WANTS
TACOMA, Dec. 24.—A London
firm has asked for bids on 1,000,000
t> railroad ties. It is thought the ties
are wanted in Europe to repair rail
roads destroyed by military opera
tions. The ties are to be shipped to
England via the Panama canal and
delivery must be made in thirty days.
M&ny of the big lumber mills have
entered bids for the contract.
All the stores will be closed to
morrow.
Fog Hinders Military Operations Near the Coast—Germans In Trenches Have
Plenty of Cheer for Christmas—German Aviator Killed Fourteen Miles
From Paris—More Men Sent To Poland By Kaiser—Russians Hope To Cut
Communications Between Austria and Germany.
LONDON, Dec. 24—The reports
from Russian Poland today indicate
that the German offensive has been
broken and that the kaiser’s troops
have been beaten at every point along
the 350 miles of battle front at which
the two armies have been engaged.
The Russian offensive against Cra
cow continues. The Austro-German
force operating near Arnow, some
what south of that point, have been
defeated with heavy loss, the Rus
sians capturing 5,000 troops and the
entire artillery of an army corps. The
Austrian loss in killed and wounded
has also been heavy.
Germans Adrnlt Formidable Resist
ance.
,The reports here from Berlin in
dicate that the German dispatches
from the front admit that the Rus
sian resistance has become formid
able and that the troops recently
gathered in Belgium for a drive for
the channel ports have been started
back towards Poland to aid Gen. Hln
denberg.
Russians Report German Advance
Checked.
PETROGRAD, Dec. 24.—The Rus
sian force has been successful in
checking the German advance to
wards Warsaw. Not only has the ad
vance been , blocked but the Germans
have lost ground and are now 40
miles from the Poland capital. This
has been effected partly by the shift
of the German troops from the Bzura
front towards Lodz, where the fight
ing is still in progress. The Germaus
have found it impossible to pass the
Bzura river, where they have lost
heavily. The mass attacks of the
enemy allowed for the slaughter of
thousands of men, the hidden mines
along the river banks and in the wa
tre destroyed all pontoon bridges and
slaughtered soldiers by the thou
sands. The river is running red with
the blood of the slain.
Gains South of Arnow.
South of Arnaw, in Southwestern
and have annihilated an Austrian
Poland, the Russians have defeated
the combined Austro-German force
brigade, captured considerable artil
lery and taken 5,000 prisoners.
Take Offensive In Galicia.
In Galicia the Russian troops have
resumed the offensive. The scattered
forces of the Russians have been
gathered and are driving forward
against Cracow for the purpose of
entering Germany from the south and
threatening the German line of com
munication between Austria and Ger
many.
German Airman Crosses Channel.
LONDON, Dec. 24—A German aero
plane crossed the channel today and
dropped bombs upon the city of Do
ver. The airman attempted to de
stroy the big naval works at Dover,
but his bombs fell far of the mark.
No damage was done by the bombs
dropped.
German Flyer Wrecked Near Paris.
PARIS, Dec. 24.—A German airman
attempted to reach this city today
to drop bombs but was caught 14
miles west and his machine wrecked
and the aviator killed. The French
airscouts patrolling the city caught
sight of the German as he was rapid
ly approaching Paris. They rose to a
high altitude and were above the
German air scout, whose machine
was wrecked by the rapid fire guns in
the French machines. When the
German machine crashed to the
ground the bombs carried in it ex
ploded and wrecked it. No one was
injured except the German aviator.
Few Engagements In West.
PARIS, Dec. 24.—Only minor en
gagements are reported from the
battle front in France and Belgium.
The artillery duels continue but few
infantry attacks have been made. A
heavy fog hangs over the bat 1 to
ground and retards operations.
U. S. Plans German Aid.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—At the
request of the German embassy here
the State Department has undertak
en to arrange for the coming to the
United States of a number of Ger
man women and children refugees at
Shanghai, China, most of whom left
Kiao-chau before the siege of that
fortress by the Japanese and English
began. The department has referred
the matter to the Bureau of Immi
gration for its opinion, as there might
be objection if any of the refugees
were liable to become public charges.
Arrangements also have been made
for sending relief funds to German
prisoners in Siberia.
Italy’s New War Biplane.
MILAN, Dec. 24.—A new militaiy
biplane which, it is estimated, can
lift 3,300 pounds and remain in the
air for 25 hours, was successfully
tried here today. The biplane has
three motors, each independent of the
others, which develop an aggregate of
300 horse power, and it is said that
the craft can attain a speed of 75
miles an hour. It will carry a 125
millimeter gun.
On its trial today the biplane rose
to a height of 6,500 feet.
To Watch Army Contracts.
LONDON, Dec. 24.—Sir George 3.
Gibb, chairman of the Metropolitan
District Railway Company and of the
tube railways, has been appointed a
civil member of the army council and
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LIVES LOST IN
UNA FLOOD
Three People Drowned and Mill'on
Dollars Worth of Property Lost
—Railroads Suffer.
TUSCON, Arlz., Dec. 24.—Floods
throughout this state have done dam
age estimated at $1,000,000, while the
.casualty list Is three persons and will
undoubtedly be much larger when the
returns from small sections of the
state still cut off from communica
tion are heard ftfom.
All the railroads are blocked,
grades have been washed away ar.d
several large bridges have also been
swept out by the force of water.
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SCANDINAVIANS TO
HAVE A UNI
Fear That Winner of Present War
"Will Make An Effort To Absorb
Little Kingdom.
LONDON, Dec. 24—It is expectad
that as a result of the conference be
tween the kings or Norway, Sweden
and Denmark, an announcement will
be made in a few days that a union
of the Scandinavian nations has been
formed. The three kings have been
holding daily conferences at Malmo,
in Sweden.
Several spies employed by foreign
powers have been arrested in the city
and are held by the military author
ities. The three small nations fear
that after the present war the win
ner will become aggressive towards
the little countries, which would be
powerless separately but might pre
vent being absorbed by a foreign foe
if the three nations fight as a unit.
The naval and military establish
ments of the three countries are to
be greatly increased and held at full
Strength until a naiance of power
is again established in Europe.
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DESTROY STEAMERS
TO HELP GEIIHY
Some Prominent Germans Are In
volved In the Effort To De
stroy French Liner.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 24—The po
lice state today that more arrests will
be made as a result of the attempt
to blow up the French liner Roch
'ambeau. It is charged that a num
ber of prominent rrermans in busi
ness in this city and New York will
be placed under arrest within 24
hours.
The secret service agents are con
fident that they have arrested the
ringleaders of a German society which
aimed to help the fatherland by de
stroying merchant vessels owned by
the French and British, and more es
pecially the ships used in transport
ing war supplies from the United
States to Europe. |
The four Germans arrested yester
day have made a full confession im
plicating the other men involved in
the conspiracy. The plan was to ship
70 pounds of dynamite with a clock
arrangement which would set the
bomb off when the ship was far out
to sea.
FRENCH CREER
PREMIER VIVIANI
Leader of France States War Must Be
Fought To Finish and Destroy
Militarism Forever.
PARIS, Dec. 24.—Premier Viviani
read a stirring address last night to
the Chamber of Deputies. The gov
ernment leader declared that France
must fight to a finish for the re
generation of Europe and the destruc
tion of militarism.
The premier was greeted with
cheers and his speech received long
and loud applause by the members
of Parliament and the crowds In the
galleries. t
oevs EXPECT
WIN IN MARCH
Hobson Will Submit His Nation
wide Prohibition Bill At the
Next Session.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24—Congress
man Hobson, who led the fight for
prohibition, stated today that ne
would resubmit to the next congress
in March the bill to make prohibition
of the manufacture and sale of spirits
nation-wide. The closeness of the
vote has made many of the brewery
interests which have been fighting the
bill realize that Hobson may be able
to force the measure through at the
next session. The inability to spl t
the vote on party lines has also hurt
the brewery interests. Congressmen
from large cities still fight the prohi
bition bill, while Republican and
Democratic congressmen from the
South and from rural districts are
all in favor of prohibition.
The parties were about equally di
vided in the balloting.
EGG MONOPOLY
IS CHARGED
New York Attorney General Says
Fifteen Men Control Egg and But
ter Business of U. S.
NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—The attor
ney general of this state makes the
direct charge that fifteen firms con
trol the butter and egg business not
only of New York, but of the entire
country. The firms are named and
are said to be operating upon a basis
of controlling a section of the coun
try into which rival firms do not en
ter. It is charged that this combina
tion is in violation of the Sherman
anti-trust law and the federal auth
orities will be asked to take a hano
in the investigation and the evidence
already secured will be turned over
to the federal district attorney.
The firms named all own and op
erate huge cold storage plants.
ITALY BUYING"
MORE HORSES
MILES CITY, Mont., Dec. 24.—
Agents of the Italian government
have purchased 10,000 more horses
for use of the cavalry of the Italian
army. Italy has purchased to date
80,000 horses and more are to be se
cured shortly. The stock is to oe
shipped to New York and taken
aboard the Italian liners, which are
now equipped with stalls to handle
the horses.
Large stock of cut glass and Paris
ian ivory at Valdec Drug Co. tt