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VOLUME XVIII.
FIVE MEN QUIZZED Bi
POLICE DETECTIVES ON|
INUBM MURDER CASE
Witnesses Are Taken to Sep
arate Rooms at Police Sta
tion and Questioned for Evi
dence
■" ■ ■—
The third floor at police station Mon
day morning was turned into a question
box for an exhaustive probe of the
(Wurm mystery. In five separate rooms,
county policemen and city detectives
grilled five separate witnesses whom
they took into custody Monday morn
ing.
None of the five, have been arrested,
there is no charge as yet against any
of them. Yet the officers admit that
through one of them or through one of
the three negroes already arrested they
hope to glean the information which
will lead to the ultimate solution of the
murder which has baffled them since
young John Wurm's body was found
in the waters of the Chattahoochee a
week ago Sunday.
The five witnesses closeted with de
tectives at police station Monday were:
Morris Kimberly, son of “Sherlock'’
Kimberly, employed as supervisor at the
plant. Young Kimberly testified at the
Crane hearing He was closely ques
tioned then as to his movements on the
afternoon and night that John l' urm
disappeared.
SOFT DRINK MAN
Dick Smith, a youth employed at the
Atlantic Steel company. Vaster Do-;
gan. the negro arrested in connection
with the mystery, says Dick Smith isi
the man for whom he bought a soft I
drink on the night Wurm disappeared.
Warren Hudson. 23 years old. an em
ploye of the steel company.
A. N. Alkire. night watchman at the
steel company, on duty the night Wurm
disappeared.
J. D. Lindsay, night master mechanic
at the steel company. He testified that
he saw Wurm leave the mechanical de
partment. No one has testified to see
ing him since then.
The detectives admit they are also
looking for other witnesses, including j
several young boys who were near the
steel company on the fatal night.
The police are still holding Vaster
Dogan. They seem to place great im-.
portance in him as a witness
“He is a second Jim Conley,” declared
Chief Newport Lanford Monday, after
I‘elective Bob Waggoner had grilled
Dogan for about an hour.
At 2 o'clock Monday afternoon the 1
detectives were still secretly grilling i
their witnesses. Solicitor Eb T. Wil
liams had joined the conference.
Negroes Accused of
Shooting Soldiers to
Get a Hearing Today
tßy Associated Press.!
MONTGOMERY. Ala.. Aug. 7.—Cor- 1
{•oral Stronecker, of Company C. Sec
ond regiment, who was seriously in
lured wh»n the three soldiers were shot
ioilowing the stoning of a street car in
which they were r’ning last night, was
resting well today at a local hospital.
The negroes in jail on suspicion will
l-e given a hearing this afternoon.
For some time after the coming of
the soldiers to Montgomery a strong
provost guanf was kept in the section
.of the fight. Last night a crowd of sol
diers was ’awe.itinc a car to take them
to camp and became involved in a quar- I
tel. When the car started bricks were
thrown into the car by negroes, strik- |
Mtg several soldiers.
The soldiers jumped off the car and
after the negroes, and the three
ehot were waylaid as they passed the
house of Jim Gosha. After a company
of militia went on guard there was
no further trouble.
Wilson Names George
Norris Executive Head of
Farm Loan Bank System
WASHINGTON. Aug. 7.—George;
Norris, of Philadelphia, was designated
by President Wilson today as farm loan
commissioner, executive head of the
farm loan bank system created by the
new rural credits act.
Mr. Norris is one of the two Demo
cratic member* of the farm loan board.
His designation as commissioner was
p-epared for announcement today at the
first meeting of the board to organize
and discuss preliminary plans.
Secretary McAdoo, ex-officio member
of the board, presides over its meetings,
as he does over those of the federal
reserve boar-’, but the law provides that
the member appointed commissioner
shall be executive head of the system
Efforts to Settle Gar
Strike in New Y ork Fails
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Mayo- Mitchell and of Public Service
t’omi-sioner Strauss to settle the street
railway strike in New York failed today
After a protracted meeting the dlrectorr
of the New York Railways company de
cl’ned at this time to ratify the tentative
agreement proposed by the two public
officials as a basis for a settlement.
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POTTLE WINS VOTEIIS
” OF CiNBLEfI COONH
Makes Profound Impression!
in Address at Court House
at Metter
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
METTER, Ga.. Aug. 7.—Joe Pottle.;
candidate for governor, opened the pres
ent week of his campaign this morn-1
ing. with a speech to the voters of Can- <
dler county, in the courthouse here. |
, Judge R. N Hardeman, of the middle
judicial circuit, a friend of Mr. Pottle's
of many years standing, adjourned
court for him to speak, and he was In
troduced by Colonel W. H. Lanier, one i
of the leading attorneys of this sec
tion.
Before Mr. Pottle oame here, it was
generally thought thaj Candler county
voters stood in the main divided between
Governor Harris and Dr. Hardman, wltn
Mr. Pottle running a strong third. Aft
er his speech, however, leading citizens
from all sections of the county told
him they felt satisfied they would be
able to line Candler up in the Pottle
column.
That Mr. Pottle made a profound im
pression on his hearers cannot be denied.
Candler county is one of the many new
counties of the state but is making re
markable progress in every way.
Mr. Pottle came here this morning
from Milledgeville, where he spenfl Sun
day with his family. He is highly
elated over the success of his campaign.
Last week he spoke in Towns, in Lau
rens. Dooly, Dodge. Morgan, Montgom
ery. Wayne and Pierce counties, and in
addition he stopped to shake hands with
his friends in towns in Pulaski, Eman
uel Toombs and Blakely counties. To
night Mr. Pottle will speak at Stillmore,
Emanuel county, and Tuesday at Mount
Vernon in Montgomerv county.
MATTERS DISQUALIFYING DORSEY.
Discussing what he charges are mat
ters which ab-jolutely disqualify Mr.
Dorsey to be governor of Georgia Mr.
. Pottle says:
“When Mr. Dorsey, while solicitor
general of the Atlanta circuit and hav
ing taken an oath to represent the state
in all cases where its interests were in
, volved, became connected with a law
suit to nullify an act of the legislature,
protecting the Western and Atlantic
railroad (State road), from being paral
leled. he disqualified himself to repre
sent the state in protecting Its best prop
erty—a property valued at approximate
ly sse.ooo.ooo.
“Mr. Dorsey's law firm brought this
law suit which had for its n -p' "
destruction of the Western and Atlantic
railroad, because if the Louisville and
Nashville railroad, which employed Mr.
Dorsey's firm, is permitted to parallel
the Western and Atlantic that property
will become almost valueless. Without
any Western connections it would be
helpless, for it cannot live on its local
business between Chattanooga and At
lanta. Everybody knows that to be true.
“As strange as It may seem, we find
1 Mr. Dorsey while solicitor general and
paid by the state to defend its interests,
allied with a firm of lawyers in an at
tack upon the law and the property of
the state. I presume that Mr. Dorsey
received his part of the fee, paid his
firm by the L. & N. to bring this as
sault on the state. At least, I have
never heard that he had denied having
received it. Thus, it appears that Mr.
; Dorsev has the money of the state in
one pocket for protecting its interests,
and the money of the Louisville and
I Nashville railroad, in another pocket.
1 for fighting the state. Can any such
course of action be reconciled?
FEE FROM WIDOW NELMS.
“Mr. Dorsey did an unprecedented
thing when he accepted a 31,000 fee
from the widow Nelms for his services
in connection with the extradition of
Mr. and Mrs. Victor E. Innes from
Texas to Georgia.
“The two daughters of the widow
Nelms mysteriously disappeared and all
the evidence at hand was such as te lead
to the popular belief that the Inneses
had obtained the property of one and
, had made way with both of the girls.
These people were arrested In Oregon
and brought to San Antonio, Tex., for
trial on a charge of murder. It being be
lieved that that was the city in which
the girls had met their end. At least
that was the last place at which they
were seen alive, and the Inneses were
living there at the time.
“Victor Innes was put on trial in San
Antonia but the state was unable to con
’ vict him of murder for the reason that
it was impossible tft produce the bodies
or any portion of the bodies of the girls.
The Texas law requiring that such proof
of death must be supplied.
“At the request of the widow Nelms,
who was determined that the Inneses
should not go scot-free. Mr. Dtfrsey, then
' the solicitor general of the Atlanta clr
* cult, obtained an indictment charging
them with larceny after trust, conclusive
evidence being at hand that Innes had
swindled o®«! of the girls out of large
sums of money.
"The Inneses resisted extradition to
Georgia an dtook out a habeas corpus
writ which finally got to the supreme
court of the United States It was then
that the widow Nelms, this distressed,
heart-broken woman, who had practically
i beggared herself in her efforts to locals
her daughters and to bring to justice
those whom she believed to be responsi
ble rfor their disappearance, went to Mr.
Dorsey and asked his aid in getting them
back to Georgia.
“Mr. Dorsey, who now poses as the
I great defender of women, very promptly
J informed her that he would take the case
!fcr *l.o*o. He exacted of this widow
3300 in cash and took a mortgage on her
little remaining property for the re
. maining 3300. This mortgage is on rec
ord in the office of the clerk of the su
l«erior court of Fulton county and can
be seen by any person who cares to look
for it.
“Mr. Dorsey's action in accepting this
fee was not only contrary to all prece
dents of solicitor generals in this state,
but was illegal. I dare say there is not
a solicitor general in this state who has
been in office for any length of time who
has not gone into other states to repre-
BRITISH SIGNAL HORN
SHRIEKS WARNING IS
SUBMARINE IS SEEN
Undersea Craft Sighted Off
Coast of Maine Is Believed:
to Have Been Long-Expect
ed Bremen
(By Associated Brest.)
MACHIASPORT. Me., Aug. 7.—Cap
tain Small, of the Cross island coast
guard station, reported today that his
station had sighted a large submarine
bound west. Its nationality could not
be determined, but the captain said he
had no. doubt It was an undersea craft.
The submarine was coming to the
surface when It was sighted and after
running awash fifteen minutes again
submerged. It was thought that the
vessel might be the German submarine
Bremen. So far as can be learned there
are no United States submarines on the
Maine coast.
The lookout who sighted the subma
rine later said that he picked the vessel
up in clear weather five miles to the
southeast. As the vessel came to the
surface the lookout said he heard sev
eral blasts from the signal horn at the
lighthouse on Seal island, a British pos
session.
It is believed that the keeper of the
lighthouse was signaling to the keeper
at Gra*nd Manan light, also British
owned. that a submarine had been
sighted.
Immediately after the whistle sounded
the submarine submerged. A few min
utes later a haze set in and it was im
possible to see more than four miles
off Cross island.
Lowell W. Dunn, the lookout on Cross
island, later reported that he had sight
ed a second submarine considerably
smaller than the first one.
Cross island lies close to the Maine
coast. If the vessel was the Bremen
she was either off her course or had
chosen to come in close to the enemy’s
country in order to arrive sooner within
the three-mile limit. Her course would
bring her within the three-mile limit
soon after she was sighted, and from
then on she would have plenty of water
to permit her to keep within the neutral
’.one.
Naval Officers Think Boat
Deutschland or Bremen
WASHINGTON. Aug. I.—Navy of
ficers said today no American subma
rines were known to be anywhere in
the vicinity of Cross island. They
thought the boat sighted there might
be the German merchant submersible
Deutschland on her homeward voyage,
or her sister ship, the Bremen, bound
in for the United States.
sent Georgia in the extradition of per
sons charged with crime in this state.
While solicitor general of the Ocmulgea
circuit I made frequent trips into a num
ber of staes to have criminals brought
back here for trial, and neither I nor any
other solicitor general that I know of.
except Mr. Dorsey, ever accepted either
a fee or expense money for this serv
ice. We did it because It was our duty
to do it.
“The only defense which I have seen
that Mr. Dorsey offers for accepting the
widow Nelms’ money is in the shape of a
letter, signed by Marshall Nelms, her
son. in which it is said that he and his
mother agreed with Mr. Dorsey on a sat
isfactory sum for his expenses and time.
Marshall Nelms was employed in the of
fice of Mr. Dorsey and it is not it all
remarkable that Dr. Dorsey was able to
obtain this letter from him.
“To perform the service necessary for
the extradition of the Inneses, Mr. Dor
sey had to make a trip to Washington
and also to make an argument before the
supreme court. Not over five days, at
the most, should have been required for
this trip and argument in the supreme
court. Therefore even if it were legal it
would seem that Mr. Dorsey exacted a
pretty stiff fee from the widow Nelms
for expenses and time.
“But this isn’t the worst of it. Seven
other separate Indictments, which he
had drawn against the Inneses, after
his arrangement for the fee with the
widow Nelms, were thrown out by the
court because of the fact that the so
licitor. who was to prosecute the In
neses. had accepted this money from the
prosecutors. it turns out that In
nes, popularly supposed to be the mur
derer of the Nelms girls, could only be
tried on the original indictment and
could only be given a sentence of seven
years’ imprisonment, whereas liaA the
other seven indictments been allowed
to stand it would have been possible
for him to have been given penalties
aggregating about fifty years.”
Mr. Pottle renewed his attacks on Mr.
Dorsey for his alleged inconsistent and
insincere position on the matter of ex
ecutive clemency. He said that Mr.
Dorsey, in his platform, declared against
the granting of executive clemency in
any case unless new and controlling
evidence had been discovered, which if
available at the time would have
changed the verdict of the jury. He
then read extracts from a number of
letters written by Mr. Dorsey while
solicitor general to the prison commlsj
ston and the governor, urging pardon,
paroles and commutations.
“In none of these cases,” said Mr.
Pottle, "was there any new evidence.
Jr. one case, that of a notorious high-,
wayman. who had been sentenced to
twenty years in the penitentiary, Mr.
Dorsey asked the governor to pardon
him, because he (Dorsey) entertained
.some doubt as to the correctness of
the jury's verdict, and for the reason
that the highwayman belonged to one
of the first families of Georgia and he
i Dorsey) had attended college with the
highwayman's first cousin.”
Mr. Pottle then cited a number of
other cases in which Mr. Dorsey had
recommended clemency with no greater
basis or justification.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY. AUGUST 8, 1916.
ASLEEP AT THE SWITCH!
I "
X * J?. -
j iLI LEGISLATURE i If
LsaU I GEORGIA
-SSMk
CHILD LiDOfl LEGISLITION
ITTICIED OVERMAN
Senator Asserts States, Not
Congress, Have Power to *
Act on Question
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. L —Proposed
child labor legislation should be sub
mitted to the states in the form of a
constitutional amendment, declared Sen
ator Overman in a speech in the senate
today in opposition to the child labor
bill. He said congress had no consti
tutional authority to enact such a law.
“For a hundred years or more it was
almost universally considered that no
legislation could be enacted which was
not authorized by the constitution,” said
Senator Overman. “Now with many it
seems to be the theory that anything
not forbidden by the constitution can
be enacted. That clause of the consti
tution which says all power not granted
by the constitution is reserved to the
people is regarded lightly, and is void of
meaning. ,
“If this legislation is constitutional,
Mr. President, there will be nothing left
of the rights of states, but there will
be an absolute absorption of the police
powers of the forty-eight sovereign com
monwealths, and there will be no barrier
in the way of centralization of all power
in Washington, to which goal we are
now rapidly drifting.”
Senator Overman declared that the ul
timate purpose of the measure, under
the guise of regulating commerce, was
to regulate production in the manufac
ture and the mills in the country.
“It is indirectly to do what you cannot
do directly,” he continued. “It is to put
a state under duress and compel it to
do that which some states have done in
order to have uniformity.
POWER OF STATES.
"As congress has the exclusive power
over interstate commerce, so the state
has the exclusive power to control its
own domestic and internal affairs, and
it should be permitted to do so without
question.
“Let the powers enumerated in the
constitution remain limited; the reserve
power in the people remain undisturbed;
let the integrity and autonomy of the
states be upheld; encourage state pride.
Centralization w-ould be a constant me
nace to the liberties of the people, breed
ing corruption and oppression. These
reserved powers are in the people of the
states. It Is theirs to hold, it is theirs
to surrender; but when once surrendered
it can never be regained.
“J say, with a great judge who wrote
It, that th*at government is the best
which, while performing all its duties,
interferes the least with the lawful pur
suits of the people.”
Senator Overman submitted statistics
to support his contention that fewer
Children were committed to jails and
workhouses in North Carolina than in
states where stringent child labor laws
were enforced. Statistics for 1910, he
said, showed that only 15 children in
100,000 between 14 and 16 years of age
in North Carolina were committed to
jails or workhouses as compared with
SAVANNAH RECALL SILL
MIL SOME UP FRIOAV
Resolution Is Offered in House
to Make This Measure a
Special Order
The Savannah recall bill, which has
precipitated one ot the bitterest fights
of the session of the legislature, prob
ably will go to a vote in the house
this week.
Representative Shelby Myrick, of
Chatham county, author of the house
bill, introduced a resolution Monday
morning to make the bill a special order
Friday. The resolution was referred to
the rules committee.
It is confidently expected by Repre
sentative Myrick that his colleague
from Chatham county, Representative
Herman Shuptrine. who is a member of
the rules committee, will induce the
committee to place the Savannah re
call bill on the calendar.
COMMITTEE IS NAMED.
Up to Wednesday all special orders
fixed by the committee must be sub
mitted to the house and be approved
by a three-fourths vote. But after
Wednesday the rules committee will be
in supreme command of the calendar of
the house, under a standing rule which
places the calendar in the hands of the
committee during the last seven days.
Should the house pass the Savannah
recall bill, Senator Lawrence, of Savan
nah, will undertake, to pass the house
bill as a substitute’for the senate bill
which was laid on the table last week.
The house at the morning session
Monday passed a bill appropriating
SIOO,OOO to build a new dormitory and
administration building at the state
normal school at Athens.
A resolution was Introduced in the
house by Representative Taylor, of Mon
roe, leader of the fight in the house
to repeal the tax equalization law, to
make the senate bill repealing the law
a special order. The resolution was re
ferred to the rules committee.
279 in Massachusetts, 199 in Rhode Is
land and 122 in Missouri.
Senator Fletcher announced he would
not vote for the bill because he was con
vinced the states should deal with the
question. Florida had good child labor
laws, he said, and he did not want them
interfered with by federal inspectors.
Senator Bryan, of Florida, deno-unced
the bill as dishonest legislation, saying
the effort to deal with hours of labor in
|he states indirectly through control of
commerce was a tacit confession of the
lack of control of conditions of labor and
an improper assumption of the rights of
the states.
Messages urging the passage of th?
bill were received by Senator Kern from
Charles W. Eliot, Rabbi Stephen Wise
and Dr. Lyman Abbott and were read in»
to the record.
‘Tn view' of the coming election,’’ Dr.
Eliot write, “I think it would be unwise
to postpone the passage of the bill until
December. The Democratic party needs
the suport in November of the numerous
Republicans and Progressives who are
interested in its passage.”
SENATE DEFERS ACTION
DN NOTE Os FELDER S
Privilege Resolution of Sen
ator Minter Is Indefinite
ly Postponed
The state senate Monday afternoon
just prior to adjournment voted to in
definitely postpone action on a privilege
resolution by Senator Minter, of the
Twenty-fourth, requesting that Senator
Pickett, of the Forty-first, file with
the senate the alleged insulting note
delivered to him Thursday by a page
for Thomas B- Felder, “that such action
thereon may be taken as seems befit
ting the dignity of this body."
Introducting the resolution, Senator
,Minter stated that the action of Mr.
Felder during the debate on the Sa
vannah recall bill came under the head
of contempt, but that as the time before
adjournment sine die was so short it
would not be practicable for the body
to take such action.
”l" do think, however,” said Senator
Minter, “that this body should go on
record as taking some action in tne
matter and it is for that reason that I
have introduced the resolution before
you.”
Senator Boykin, of the Seventeenth,
speaking in opposition to the resolu
tion, declared that the senate should
lef the matter drop inasmuch as the
senate had gone on record la®t Friday
as emphatically denying that the stab
bing of Mr. Felder had anything to do
with the Savannah recall* bill debate
and because the senator from the Forty
frrst was “too noble a man to allow
himself to be dragged into the slime of
insult." The _ attack of Mr. Felder, he
concluded, was beneath any senator’s
notice.
The motion to indefinitely postpone
was made by Senator Pickett, of the
Eleventh. The vete was 16 to 8, a bare
quorum voting.
PRECIPITATED BY WALKER.
The introduction of the resolution was
precipitated by a point of personal priv
ilege which Senator Walker, of the
Twentieth, made during the morning.
He explained to the senate that his in
terest in the matter was not personal
in the least, but that he thought that
senate should take cognizance of
any attempt from the outside to molest
any member of its body. ,
He stated that he had in fact pre
pared a motion requesting Senator Ros
coe Pickett to produce the note which
it -is claimed Thomas B. Felder sent to
him during the session Thursday, but
that on a request from Senator Pickett
himself, who stated that the matter was
one personal to him and one which he
wanted to deal with as such, he put the
motion in his desk and took no further
action on it.
The press reports stating that he
would introduce such a resolution Mon
day has compelled him to make the per-
(Continued on Page 6, CoL 2.)
NUMBER 88.
RUSSIANS PRESSING
OFFENSIVE AGAINST
TEUTONS IN GALICIA
Czars - Troops Are Nearing
Lemberg and the Entire
Austrian Front Is Rapidly
Being Outflanked
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. —General
Brussiloff is pressing his offensive
against the Teutonic allies in northern
Galicia where the passage of the River
Sereth was recently forced by the Rus
sians along a wide front sbuth of Brody.
Petrograd today reports further advances
with the capture of strongly fortified
positions along the Sereth and the Gra
berka.
The Russian forward push in this
sector is not only bringing them closer
to Lemberg but is pointed out by mili
tary critics as likely seriously to en
danger the entire Austrian front along
the Stripa. to the south, which is rapid
ly being outflanked.
Heavy fighting continues on the west
ern front in the Verdun region. Ac
cording to Paris, however, the Germans
have been entirely unsuccessful in their
efforts to regain ground lost in General
Nivelle’s vigorous offensive last week.
An attack on the Thiaumont wood is
declared to have been checked by the
French section barrier, while an assault
in the Vaux-Chapitre woods was broken
up by the artillery and machine guns.
In the Somme region today’s Paris
statement reports only artillery activity'
which, however, was intense near Chaul
nes, north of the river.
British reports of the fighting east
of the Suez canal, in Egypt, show a
crushing defeat for the Turks, w’ho are
said to have lost fully one-fourth of
their effectives, which numbered some
14,000 men. The British took more than
3,100 prisoners.
They are pursuing the Turks who al- x
ready have been driven 18 miles into
the desert.
In the German East Africa the British
have driven the Germans beyond the
Central Railway line thus pressing them
into a comparatively narrow area on the
other side of which Portuguese forces
from the neighboring colony of Portu
guese East Africa are operating. Lon
don dispatches report Premier Louis
Botha, of the Union of South Africa,
on the scene in anticipation that the
operation of depriving the Germans of
their last remaining colonial possession
will soon be accomplished.
Further Successes Are
Claimed for Russians
(By Associated Press.)
PETROGRAD, Aug: 7.—(Via London.)
Further successes for the Russians
along the Sereth and Graberka rivers
in northern Galicia south of Brody, were
announced by the war office today. The
Russians captured strongly fortified po
sitions in the region of the villages of
Zvyjin, Kostiniec and Reniuv.
The statement follows:
“A squadron of seven enemy aero-
I planes bombarded several points in the
region east of the Stokhod river, caus
ing but little damage.
“At some places along the Stokhod
the enemy took the offensive, but every
where was repelled. Our offensive con
tinues in the region of the Graberka
and Sereth rivers. Our troops captured
strongly fortified positions of the en
emy In the vicinity of the villages of
Zvyjin, Kostiniec and Reniuv. Fierce
bayonet encounters took place <n tho
woods in this region. The enemy made
counter attacks. Engagements are pro
ceeding under difficulties owing to un
interrupted rains having reduced the soil
almost to a morass.
“On Riven Koroplec the enemy
launched several energetic attacks in
the region of Velesnuk. AU were re
pelled and the enemy suffered severe
losses.
“On the River Tchernoitcheremoch.
south of Vorokhta, the enemy succeeded
in forcing back our cavalry outposts a
little distance.”
Russians Pressing on
In Northern Galicia
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, Aug. 7.j—Tn northern Gali
cia the Russians have struck another
hard blow at the Teutonic allies and
occupied along the Sereth and Graberki.
rivers, south of Brody, six villages and
the entire ridge on which they are lo
cated.
Furious fighting marked the engage
ment. the Russians being forced in the
villages to drive their adversaries from
house to house. The Austro-Germans.
at last reports, were bombarding vio
lently their lost positions.
In the fighting the Russians cap
tured a regimental commander and 1-10
other officers and more than 5,500 men
and also took numerous machine guns _
and bomb throwers.
Berlin admits that the Russians nave
gained the left bank of the Sereth
river, but asserts that the Russians
have been driven from positions along
the Stokhod river, south of -Zarecze.
and that Jn the Carpathians the Ger
mans are still operating successfully.
VICTORY' OVER'TURKS.
in Asiatic Turkey the Russians re
port the capture at various places of
new Turkish positions. In the Kial
kit-Cha river basin positions protected
by five lines of trenches were wrested
from the Turks, while south of Erzln
gan and west of the village of Ognut
additional trenches and two heights
were captured. In the region of Mush
and Bitlis, the Turks have assumed
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