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AVALANCHE OF TROOPS TO SWEEP VICTORS BACK IS FORMING
London—The Daily Chronicle printsthe following dispatch, which is dated"Northern Prance":
"A week of successes for the Allieslias followed the resumption of hos-tilities in Prance and Flanders. Rou-lers has been captured after our fierceassaults on the German trenches oat-side the town. The inundations be-tween Dixmude and Nieuport harebeen surrounded by the allied troops,who hare pushed northward from Dix-mude and southward from Nieuport,and have joined forces on the north-eastern side of the floods. Repeat-ed bayonet attacks have been pushedhome at Lombaertzyde, with the resultthat our patrols have advanced toMiddlekerke, a few kilometres fromOa tend.
The fighting on the borders of theflooded area was particularly furious.The Belgians advanced toward theintrenched positions of the Germans atOostkerke, 'but were driven back by£he well posted mitrailleuses of the
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BERLIN REJOICES IN VICTORY.
Berlin, via London.-The peopleBerlin weijp aroused to enthusiasmover the announcement of a great Aus-tro-German victory over the Russianin Poland. The official bulletin read
The Russian offensive against Sliesia and Posen has completely brokendown. In the whole of Poland the ene-my was forced to retreat after fierce,stubborn frontal battles, and is 1pursued everywhere.
During the fighting ifi Northern Po-land the bravery of the West PrussianHessian regiments gained a victory.The effect of this victory cannot ybe estimated.
Within half an hour extra edition:of papers appeared and the whole ciliteraly flashed into bunting.
American visitors* who a few dayago commented upon the non-displa;of flags, scarcely recognized thstreets, which everywhere were gawith the German black, white and reand the Austrian orange and blacks
Five Per Cent. Increase to Add$50,000,000 to Revenues
SIXTY-NINE UWES BENEFIT
Need of Additteial Revenue Admitted-"Interstate Commotion Extends Ad-
vance to Entire Cottntcy, ExceptLake, Rail, Coal and Iron.
<• «.oui4i«i.uu.'—»y a, vote of five totwo the Interstate Coltoerce Commis-sion granted the application of therailroads in Offic^l Cla^incation Ter-ritory for an increase in rates. Thedecision awards the carriers 5 percent, on everything but coal and ironore, and is expected to add nearl$50,000,000 a year to revenues of thiines east of the Mississippi and nortof the Potomac and Ohio rivers.
The decision is a victory for therailroads—the result of three hardfights for advances in "rates commen-surate with augmented operatingpenses.
In its decision the Interstate Commerce Commission cites the strainedfinancial situation resultant from th<European war and the poor flscashowing of the railroads for the yeaiwhich ended June 30, 1914, as th(
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Operation*—Hot Chase ThroughStreet With Shots Aplenty.
Cincinnati.—An armed bandit whshot his way in and out of one WeatEnd bank here, escaped with $8,000,and a little later repeated the perform-ance in another part of town, this timewounding the cashier and taking sev-eral thousands of dollars in currency.When he was later found in his lodg-ings there began a skirmish betweenhimself and the police that ended withthe fatal Wounding of en© policeman,the wreck of the bandit's stolen' auto-mobile and his own death from a bul-let wound.
The second robbery occurred whilethe police were scouring the city inmotors for the man who accomplishedthe first, but it was not until eveningpapers gave a description of him thata householder tipped the police to th<fact that one of his roomers wis per-haps the man they sought It was in
FIRST SWW*Ss — ^BU«ty OR-GANI2ATI0N HEAD* TO HAVEA VOICE »N THE PATRONAGETHROUGHOUT THE STATE.
Brooklyn.~Ck»mpteoll«r^lect EugeneM. Ttavis announced that he fcad «e*fccted tiu*§ Republican district lap*ers of Kings County for Important andwell-paid jobs in hi» department, andtSere is every reason to believe fieplans to appoint organization Repub-licans to the many other positionsfrom which h» wffl oust IJeiaocrata.
Martin B. Campbell i» to be chiefcounsel of the Transfer, Tax Apprais-er's office in Brooklyn. He is leaderof the Sixteenth Assembly District,which includes Sheepshead Bay. Hiscompensattottwm h*ti&& f ^hirun as High as $15,000 ot'l&jftfr ayear. • •• .r^,' ' v
Travle ConatUta -Party Head*.William Sehnitzpan and Charles S.
Warbasse are to be transfer tax ap-praisers In Brooklyn, at $4,000 a yeareach. Mr. Schnitzpan is Republicanleader of the Twentieth Assembly DUmet, and Mr. Warbasse ©f the NinthAssembly District. *
In adition to these selections, Mr.Travis announced that Thomas E.Cleverly win be a trust fund examinerin the Comptroller's department at$10/a day. Mr. Cleverly comes from
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charge, and three times they wererepulsed. The fourth assault, how-ever, crowned the gallantry of the Bel-gians with successes, and the trenches•were carried at the point of the bay-onet.
So interwoven were the allied antGerman trenches in this region thaithe defeat of the enemy at Ooost-feerke was responsible for the capturebf nearly 1,000 German prisoners.They were caught in parties vary!from thirty to three hundred in num-ber.
Tor a time the reckless dash of tw<armored auto cars into the Belgiailines nearly saved the situation fothem. The cars fired with deadly ef-fect until they were compelled to with-draw.
The wounded are beginning to ar-rive at the base hospitals. The Ger-pmn casualties are reported $o be veryheavy'.
Our sweeping offensive has been n<fess successful to the south. ThiStench and British* troops haverived at the gates of Lille. Pierce bayonet fighting in the streets of thgreat industrial city is reported, andgeneral withdrawal of the main Geiman forces to Tourcoing and Roubai:Hhas-fcaken
Reports are current in NorthernFrance that Roulers has been, takenby Franco-British troops.
The Germans : bombarded Armen-tieres. Their shells fell in the townat the rate of two a minute for severahours. Ourgreat effect.
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KAISER'S VICTORIOUS RAIDON ENGLISH COAST.
London.—A powerful German fleetslipped trough the cordon of naval de-fence which had made the coast ofEngland inviolate for centuries, bom-barded the cities of Scarborough,Hartlepool and Whitby*. on the York-shire coast, 310 miles from Helgo-land, killed nearly fifty civilians aadsoldiers and wounded hundreds, de-stroyed an immense amount of prop-erty and escaped to sea.
There is fear that an invasion willbe attempted, but there is more reasonto believe that the devastating raidwas the first stroke of a great coupwhich Germany, it is positivelyknown, has been planning for week*a concerted rush of bat fie cruisersand dreadnoughts from Helgoland andthe mouth of the Elbe, and an attemptto ruin British commerce on the Atlan-tic before their inevitable destructionby the superior British* fleet.
The squadron that shelled the York-shire coast escaped practically un-harmed. The organized pursuit thatfollowed the frantic alarms and ap-peals by wireless, and that drew Eng-land's grea^ ships from the Firth ofForth, from Aberdeen, from tire mouthof the Thames and from their station!at sea, could not catch up or cat offthe fast steaming raiders. The Ger-mans had in their favor a heavy mist,which covered the sea, and they madea r&pid withdrawal after raining shellson die coast towns for about thirtyminutes-r—at Hartlepool from 8:1$m., to 8:50 a. m.
Nearly four hundred casualties,eighty-three killed and approximatelythree hundred wounded, are the lastfigures of the results of the Germanraid on the east coast. Only sevenkilled and fourteen wounded were sol-diers, while of the civilians a largeproportion was women and children.
tl was the most daring and success-ful exploit the Germans have per-formed in the war, amaxing in its dar-ing and savage thoroughness.
COSTS $200,000,000 A MONTH.
France's War Bill for Half Year Piacad* at $1,185,388,573.
Paris.—The costx of the war, toFrance for the first six months tn 1916is officially figured at 6,929,442.865francs (JU85,8S8,573) or about $200,-000,000 monthly.,
The appropriations committee of theFrench Parliament mei. with a full at-tendance/to consider the budget, whichaggregates for the first six months in1815 a total of 8,525,264,407 francs!
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was in session, word was receivecfrom the palace that the greatest vietory of the war had been won. Theschools closed so that the childrencould arable , to celebrate the event.
The first intimation of the natureand extent of the Russian defeat wascirculated in official quarters, butnothing was known of it generally un-til the official bulletin was published.It haa been undertsood that the Ru«sians were in a precarious conditioibut it was not hinted that a decisivresult was at hand.
It is now known that thousandsRussians have been taken prisoners
All the newspapers hail the vt-toryas the most brilliant, achievement inthe campaign. Oie of them; couplingthe Eastern situation with th* boir-bardment of the east coast of Eogland, says that while the naval gunwere thundering "it was a salute f.the victory in the East and the over-throw of the Russian steam rollerwhich was to crush its way to Ber-lin."
"Never since this old earth has hada history," says the Lokal Anzeiger,"haa such a gigantic battle bee
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Widespread prosperity for the Tairoads and those lines of business dlrectly affected by this Industry is expected to follow the establishment ofthe new rates. The railroads will filethe new tarift!s__immediately. ?Thwill go into effect ten days later.
President Wilson and an othfr offlcials of the administration evidencesatisfaction at the action of the commission. They realized the plight dlthe carriers, and now, with added revenues in sight for them, are confldeniof a business boom generally.
Those railroads which benefit mosiare in the Trunk Line Freight Association territory, lying east df Baffakand Pittsburgh and north of ftorfol*to the Atlantic, except New England.Other lines also will receive assis-tance through permission to increaseinterstate rates on freight shipmentsto and from New England. Increasesalso are allowed for shipments be-»tween the official classification terri-tory, that traversed by the Easternrailroads and the -Sottineastem ter-ritory, the Southwest and points on o*east of the Missouri River.
Fifty-three of the sixty-nine rail-roads "benefited by the decision arecontrolled by the Pennsylvania, New
been an event of such decisive impor-tance. The battle of Poland win beclassed in history among the victoriesof the first rank. It will be mentionedin the same breath with the battles ofSalamls and Leipsic. We have tothank von Hindenberg and the desper-ate courage of his troops who foughtunder the glorious banners of Ger-many and Austria."
VON HIND€N©ORG ADVANCING.
Rotterdam.—Amid the maze of con-flicting reports on the situation inwestern Poland, the fact stands outthat Field Marshall von Hindenburg isgradually approaching the westerngateB of Warsaw! through scenes ofblood and wholesale slaughter, per-haps the most appalling of tee entirewar to date.
Apparently the Germans have con*eentrated 750,000 men in the areanorthwest of Warsaw and moved sorapidly that they forced the withdraw-al of a Russiaja force of probably 300,-000. The Russians are playing fortime.
A dispatch from. Berlin, whichcomes by the way of Amsterdam, saysthat the German, Russian and Aus-trian armies in Poland have lost 400,-000 men in recent battles. Breslaureports that the Russians alone lost125,000 men in killed and wounded inthe battles west of Warsaw.
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he was finally rounded up and thestolen money, totalling $10,000 found.
The bandit was seen first alightinLfrom a machine which he had stolen,In front of the West End branch of theProvident Savings Bank & Trust Co.,at Eighth street and Freeman avenue.There Edward Hughes, the cashier,was waiting on a customer. The cus-tomer was knocked down by the buttend of. the intruder's gun, which itselfwas then, brought to play on Hughes.The cashier dropped behind the mar-ble counter fleeing to safety to therear of the bank. The bandit took$2,000 from the counter and $6,000from a money drawer"in order to getwhich he had to vault an eight footwirework over the counter.
His escape to his machine, the en-gine of which was still going, wasmade difficult by a fusillade with whichcashier Hughes opened upon himhe left the bank. None of the shotstook: effect, though.
Passersby in th# street looked inamazement and watched him rollaway. His start proved a good one,and the next the police heard wawhen word came to them that an arm-ed man answering the same descrip-
MEAT AT 50 CENTS; SHOES $10.
Experta See This in Two Years Owingto Shortage Ui Cattle.
Chicago,—Meat at 50 cents a poundand shoes *t fl« a> l>aip are possi-biltties in the next two yeifs, in tiseopinion df Goverameat and stock yardsexperts after taking a census of thecattle in the eouatry asd ftoding thevisible supply lees :*h*n S5;000,000head, AS this incliiSes calves, yearl-ings and full grown stock the numberof animals capable of breeding is re-duced to aa alarmingly deficient sup-Ply.
"Meat in America will be a raritybefore the war ends, -with its dtain onour supply," said Henry J. William-son, Government «titisticiaa in theDepartment of Agriculture.
U. S. SENDS ©EN. SCOTT.
HeacJ of Army to Make Mexican* StopFiring Acrosa Border.
Washlngton.-—The dispatch of Gen.Hugh L. Scott, Chief-of^tair, to Naco,Ariz., by the War Department, follow,ing reports from Gen. Bliss, in com-mand at that point that conditionswere growing worse Instead of l»etter,is accepted here ae a move on thepart of the Administration to put anend to firing across the internationalboundary line at that point.
ty Banking & Savings Co.He opened fire at George Winters,
the cashier,- and seriously woundedhim. With other clerks and customersafraid to interfere he helped himselfto the money, in sight and again es-caped in his waiting car.
The bandit had rented a room onWest Ninth street, not far from hisfirst holdup, the day before. The land-lord was somewhat suspicious of hislodger, and his feeling were more cer-tain when he heard the description ofthe robber. At his suggestion the po-lice came to the apartment in an aim-ed body to force the room.
When they entered, the bandit greet-ed them with a volley. PolicemanKnaul was fatally wounded, and inthe confusion the bandit slipped byand again found his way to his ma-chine. His flight was unlucky, thoughfor before going two blocks he veeredinto a telegraph pole and wrecked hismachine. The police detachmentcaught tip with him, firing as theycame, he fell wounded, and died later
the hospital.The bandit Is though from his de-
scription to he the same man who suc-eeasfully robbed the Altoona (Pa.) Un-ion Bank of $2,400 several monthsago and escaped after wounding thecashier and a civilian.
of which Congressman William M. Cal-der is Republican leader.
Mr. Travis has had several longtalks with State Chairman Tannerregarding the proper distributionthroughout the State of the immensepatronage of the Comptroller's office.He has also consulted County Chair-man Samuel S. Koenig, who win liavethe naming of the eight transfer taxappraisers, from New York County.
in like manner the County Chairmenin each county will be asked to namemen for the transfer tax appraisershipin their districts. There are four suchjobs in Kings County, three to TheBronx and one each In most othercounties.
AH the jobs are held now oy Demo-crats who will walk the political plank.Mr. Travis intends to get rid of theDemocrats as speedBy aa possible.
Tammany Leaders to Feel Axe.For instance, there are twenty ex-
aminers of transfer stock in the de*partment at $2,000 a year each,but one of theDemocrats,places. The onewill be kept.
The most important teeapltatkmMr. Travis has Jn proroect „
j leader* whot aa tmnafcr tax *p-s them are Percy Na-
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_ dozenhold $4,000praisers, nunwa aimy «*»» rvrvigle, Joseph I. j Berry, Michael J.vin, Solomon kjoldeokranx *aod JohnV. Coggey. AH but Berry mleaders. Two fcther mem J^wspy ac-tive in Tammarty wffl lose &j& jobsas appraisera / They *re Edward J.Cuddihy and Thomas P. Turley.
Mr. TraTis^contemplates * u w «sweep of Denperats, even in the minorjobs. There Ire many of these, payingfrom $8 to $15 a day. H* expects atooto abolish scf «ral place* in tte depart-ment, indudkg that of one examinerof private banks at |S,SO& and two at$2,500.
GREENALCH WANTS ylS9f€ FOR WATER METERS
Albanyv^in Msr annual Tajport Com-mjssioner of {Public Works WallaceGreenalch recommends that a.issue be made of about $200,000, toput water meters on aU the servicepipes in the city. They ace now re-quired on ail new work. The city isspending about $10,000 a. y$& on" iM»work, bat the waste of water does not
SHIP PURCHASE MEASURE IN.
Mr. Greenalch says the water sys-tem is big enough for a city twice thesise of Albany, and that this wouldgive everyone a good supply of wa-ter Tbe high per capita consumptionis not due to underground leaks tatto wasting the water, he declares.
P I T H O F T H EWAR NEWS
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Wtth the Allies trying to make theirforward movement effective fromone end of the WMnHe battle tinem France an* Btlflium to the otherand the German* just aa determinedto Hold their around, there la des-perate fighting along practically theentire front from the Voaoea to theNorth Sea,he Britten Admiralty haa iaaued, astatement denying that any Britishwarahips were tost in the recent raid.
German reports declare the French at-tacka In the Semme were all fail-ures and coat the Aitiea 3,000 men,and tell of capturing 7^00 of theenemy in the Argonne.
orward along the whole 100-mileline from the North Sea to the Olaego the Allied armlet, and the longtalked about general advance uponthe German invadera of France andBelgium la at last under way.proclamation wa« iaaued bringing
to mn end the Turkish auxeralntyover Egypt and eetabllahing a Brtt-iah protectorate.
urkey haa-tiumbly apollgJzed to lUlyfor the invasion of thje Italian con-•ulat* at Hodeida.
rom the Franco-Belgian border southto around Poronne appreciable pro.greaa by the Aitiea ia reported.
WORLD'S NEWS IN| CON DEN8ED FORM
MEXICO ClTY.-lnduatrial and rail.^»»y conditions throoghottt the repub-Uc are gettfar better everyday.
WASHINGTC^—Th# commi«^onRomnanians touring this country to
study business coiKlitiQftfi and pur-e arms, ammunition and war ma-
terial met Secretary of State Bryanat Ws office.
DENVER.—Lett*r. from Pre«W»ntiison to John McLenaan, president
af district 15. Unfted Mine Workers ofAmerica, bring the information thatthe President will act cautiously indealing with the question of withdraw-
# the Federal troops from Colorado.ALEXANDRIA, Egypt,—The AiAerl-m cruiser Tennessee, which has beenthe eastern Mediterranean, charged
with the surveillance of Americas in-terests, arrived here.
BERLIN—A atatement given out bythe German official press bureau says:"The Austrian General Staff reports31,000 Russians have been taken pris-*aers in west GSelleia.'*
ATLANTA, Ga.—A new effort tolave the life of Leo M. Frank, sen-;enced to be hanged January 22 for;he murder of Mary Phagan, was be-gun in Federal District Court here,Charge made that he is. neld illegally.
Government Authorized toVeeeete for Trade.
Washington-—The administration'sship purchase bill was reported favor-ably to the Senate from the committee
commerce. Chairman Stone of theforeign relations committee introduc-ed the bill on December 9. The com-merce committee voted down a mo-tkm by Senator William Alden Smithto hold public hearings on the bill andunder the spur of the administration
was reported by a strict party votewith one exception,
AU the Democrats on the committeeexcept Senator Vardaman voted for
biU and all of the Republicans andSenator Vardaman voted against re?porting it. The bill empowers thePresident to use tor commercial pur-poses craft belonging to the War De-partment not required in time ofpeace.
INMATES AT SING 8WQASK POftPAY INCREASE
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Oasinrag.—More pay Is to t » asked,according to reports, for inmates ofStag Sing prison, who now receive fortheir labors a cent a day.
Some of the Inmates have expresseda desire for higher pay, ao they can af-ford to buy groceries and better gradesof tobacco than the state furnishes.The cent a day. they now receive doesnot go to them until they are liberated.Warden Thomas Mott Osborne -srouldneither affirm nor deny th* report thathe favors the increase.
ROOSEVELT'S "WOMAN INBLUE" FREED BY DIVORCE.
'LIFER** HAM THIEF PARDONED.
Sen-rnor Parole* Matenoed for TWrd Theft.
Lansing, Mich.-rCiovernor , Ferrisia ordered the parole of Michigan's
aost widely known prisoner, Lewis»ver, & <lHfer" in MartjaeUe, senten-
ced to prison for life "for stealing abam.1' .
01i*er_ was sent to Martjuette byTudge Howard Wieat. of the Ingham3ountr Circuit, under the Habitual
act. It was Oliver's third
Mineola, Long Island.—Mrs. LucyLee. known in the Roosevelt adminis-tration as *t*he woman to blae,"through her persistent but useless at-tempts to see the President, obtaineda divorce from* her husband, FrederickL. Lee, well known in Manhattan in-iurance circles.
ARTIFICIAL ICE CROWDINGOUT NATURAL KIND
—On account of New torkce companies majking artificial ice,any ice houses along the river near
here will probably do little work thiswinter. Hundreds of men who dependon the l<?e harvest in the winter will becompelled to |%ek other work.
SPOT MARKETS AT A GLANCE.Wheat. No. 1 ao. *pc\ns mOats, standard «Hour, sprtt«Mt. bbl ».«
Hay pHms,. lw lbs . . . , . , , l.flgPork, priroft freat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M.S0Lan!, prime w«st 14.ISCottonseed oil S.SOCoffe«, Rio, ? 1b , .* . . . . . .«tS r 11 ta lb 4.SS
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