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Wealher Report
Augusta and Vicinity.—Fair to
night and Sunday.
Georgia.—Fair ton.ght and Sun
day.
VOLUME XXI, No. 265.
HIISIEST
OF DAYS
FOR THE
PRES'T
Long Branch, N. J.—President Wil
son's program for today was the busi
est arranged for him since he came to
Shadow Lawn. This morning he re
viewed the Fourth New Jersey regi
ment of infantry at Sea Girt, N. J.,
and this evening hi will receive and
address members ofyoung men’s dem
ocratic clubs from j’ew York.
The New Jersey regiment recently
returned from the botrder and the
president felt a particular interest in
It. He reviewed the command on
horseback. The review took ulace in
front of the "Little White House," oc
cupied by the president when he was
governor of New Jersey.
Representatives of the democratic
national committee arrived here early
today to complete arrangements for
the reception )f the young democrats
who were expected to arrive on spe
cial trains at 3 o’clock.
The visitors, it is planned, will march
in military order from the railroad sta
tion to Shadov Lawn led by two bands.
The president will speak to them at
4 o’clock. It is understood that his
address will deal with reasons why
young men should vote the democratic
ticket.
GERMANY MOVES BACK THE
TIME ONE HOUR TONIGHT
Berlin, (via London.) —Germany will
return to normal times Saturday at
midnight when all time pieces in the
country will 1* moved back one nour.
Opinions vary greatly regarding the
advantage of the so-called summer
time. Farmerp are opposed to it as
also are the moving picture interests,
while some rs the theaters and com
mercial classes favor it. As a result
of the variance in sentiment it is un
certain whether the experiment will be
Renewed next year.
KUT SUDHM
DOES 1 LIQUOR
ID RESTRICTION
Stockholm. —(Correspondence of the
Associated Press.) —-In company with
the nations at war, the neutral states
of Scandinavia have made some ef
fort recently to restrict the liquor
traffic. It may be added, however,
that the regulations so far in effect
cannot be classed as in any sense op
pressive.
The greatest restriction enforced is
in Norway where spirits may be
bought only on Tuesday's Wednes
days, Thursdays and Fridays and then
only within specified hours, which
vary slightly in different sections of
the country. Beer, ales and light
wines, including champagne, may be
bought at almost any time. The con
sumption of the latter has materially
increased since Norway’s war-time
prosperity set in.
In Denmark the effort to restrict
drinking has not progressed very far.
It has been decreed, however, that in
rural communities all drinking places
must close at 11 p. m., while in Copen
hagen the closing hour has been plac
ed at 1 a. m.
Here in Sweden there is quite a
strict control over bottled spirits with
more or less complicated regulations
as to restaurants and cases, the saloon
in the American sense being unknown.
Between the hours of 12 and 3 p. m.,
no liquors can be sold except with
food. In Gothenberg and other com
munities the drink cannot exceed a
certain percentage of the price spent
for food. On Sundays no one is ad
mitted to the cases between the hours
of 11 a. m. and 1 p. m. and between
6 and 7 p. m., these hours being aside
for church going. All cases are sup
posed to stc.o the sale of liquors at
midnight, but there are a great muny
which seem to have a dispensation as
to this particular rule.
The sale of whiskey, gin and other
spirits in bottles is under government
regulation. Each adult wishing to buy
splits must provide himself with a
book. In this ail purchases are enter
ed and no one is allowed more than
one quart a week. As in other Euro
pean countries a strict line is drawn
between spirits on the one hand and
beer and wine on the other, no limit
whatever being placed on the amount
of the latter to be bought at any
time.
The favorite drinks with the work
men are beer and "brannvln," a dis
tillation looks and tastes like
pure alcohol, .among the studentts and
frequenters of the city cases the Swe
dish "punsch," a sweet, llquor-llke
preparation with a very high percent
age of alcohol, Is exceedingly popular,
and Is consumed In great quantities,
Scotch whiskey, although expensive.
Is coming Into greater popularity ev
ery day among the drinking classes. A
Scotch and soda costs anywhere from
30 to 46 cents, but Sweden and her
sister states of the north are exceed
ingly prosperous Just now.
The Swedish government does not
feel It Is called upon to look after the
welfare of foreigners so far as drink
is concerned. Upon the production of
a foreign pasport the visitor can get
any amount of spirits he desires, bot
tled or otherwise.
The Augusta Herald
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This shows how the British and French have advanced on the Somme
since July Ist. The dotted line (1) was the front at the start of the “big
push.” The dash line (2) indicated the battle front at the beginning of
the last week in September. The heavy line shows what the simultaneous
capture of Thiepval and Combles, on widely separated parts of the line,
did for the allies’ advance.
INSTRUMENTS TD
TEST EFFICIENCY
OF THE WOUNDED
Paris.—(Correspondence of the As
sociated Press). —A number of remark
able scientific instruments for meas
uring exactly the efficiency of a
wounded soldier to perform some new
line of useful work, have been put In
operation at the Belgian Military In
stitute at Port Blllez, France, for the
re-education of mutilated soldiers.
While the outer world regards Bel
gium as prostrate under the iron hand
of Germany, it is a striking tribute
to the vitality of the country that it
has been able to establish such insti
tutions outside of the country.
Here at a small town between Paris
and Rouen, 1,600 wounded Belgian
soldiers, most of whom fought in the
battle of the Yser, are being made
over for some useful occupation. A
park of 600 acres has been donated, and
extensive buildings have been erected.
So that Belgium, prostrate as It is,
has an establishment comparing fav
orably with the best English and
French Institutions.
The Belgians have always been fa
mous for fine mechanical appliances,
and here they have shown their genius
in this line by the use of seven or eight
new scientific instruments which
measure precisely the efficiency of a
wounded man. Doctor Nyras, of the
Medical Staff of the Institute, has
furnished the following sketch of these
instruments and how they measure, a
wounded workman's energy:
“Recent studies on the efficiency of
workmen have shown the enrmous
force wasted through the non-adapta
tion of working conditions to the
workman's capacity for production,
and the "chief object of efficiency re
searches is to suppress all useless ef
fort and establish precise conditions
for securing the best results. When
the study concerns mutilated soldiers,
it acquires a new value. A certain loss
of effort may be tolerated when a
workman is normal. But it is not so
with the mutilated, whose functional
powers are diminished, and to whom it
is indispensable that every particle of
work of which they are capable should
be made Integrally available.”
After explaining the method of the
charts and tracings employed, Dr.
Nyms described the instruments which
measure the energy of tho wounded,
in part, as follows:
“First, The arthrodynamometer: It
permits the measurement in degrees of
the angles formed by the flexion and
extension of the forearm. It is partic
ularly useful in studying partial anky
losis. A dynamometer attached to this
instrument measures in kilograms the
force that a wounded man can exert.
"Second —the lime, with a cylinder
giving a chronological register. This
registers the impulsive force of the
right hand, of the left hand; the pres
sure of the right hand, of the left hand.
These are compared with the stand
ards showing In kilograms what a
maximum force would be, thus show
ing what Is lacking and what needs
to be corrected.
"Third—a varlop, with registering
cylinder and electric signal, which
permits us to study the work in car
pentering similar to the measurement
of force by the lime.
"Four —The chierographs, which re
stores the mobility of the fingers and
registers their power of work.
"Five —A spirometer, with audiome
ter, a cardiograph and a pneumograph,
complte the Installation, and permit
the study of all the physiological phe
nomena bearing on workmanship, and
indicating when wqrk is too heavy and
should be limited by additional periods
of rest.”
The use of these novel instruments
Ih, of course, only one phase of the ex
tensive work being done here, which
includes the training of architects,
sculptors, painters In art and trade,
carpenters, shoemakers, saddlers, ma
chinists, typewriters, printers, engrav
ers, llnotypers, photographers, and a
vast number of other occupations.
Men who have lost a leg were thought
at first to be adapted to some work not
requiring the man to stand. But this
has been found to be a mistake and
one-legged men are now considered
well adapted to standing at a printing
ease or working at a carpenter's bench.
However, most of the one-legged and
one-armed men show a preference to
becoming tailors and shoemakers.
They are also much opposed to taking
up occupations, such as Jewelers, lith
ographers and painters, who are not
in much demand In the small towns of
Belgium and France.
Usually a wounded soldier chooses
an occupation akin to his former work.
An iron moulder who has lost his arm
and can no longer lift heavy moulds,
has become a modeller of these moulds.
(Continued on Page Two.)
THE ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES—THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMES.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 30, 1916.
LABOR UNIONS GET
A FURTHER CHECK
IN N. Y. CUR STRIKE
New York.—Officials of the Amalga
mated Association of Street Railway
Employes today began the distribution
of a $56,000 strike benefit fund among
the street car men who have been on
strike here since September 6th. Each
man was to receive $5.
Efforts to organize a general strike
in support of the car men sufffered a
check today when the 900 brewery
workers who quit in response to the
general call returned to work. Never
theless the labor chiefs asserted that
100,000 workers aside from the United
Hebrew Trades are on strike.
Traction officials said the street car
men who quit are returning at the rate
of about 15 a day and that the placoß
of the strikers are slowly being filled
by new men. General Manager Hed
!ey, of the Interborough Rapid Transit
Company, said no man would be de
barred because he went on strike but
that the men who return lose their
seniority ratings. For the first time
since the strike began, surface cars
were operaetd on lower Broadway last
night.
S.G.NEGRO RIDDLED
BY HIS PURSUERS
Columbia, S. C.—While resisting ar
rest by a sheriff’s posse in a swamp
near Bennettsvllle, S. C., yesterday af
ternoon Henry Lewis, a negro, charg
ed with the murder of Rural Policeman
J. L. Alsbrooks of Marlboro County, a
few days ago, was shot and fatally
wounded.
Sheriff Patterson, of Marlboro Coun
ty, and a large posse with blood hounds
located and surrounded the negro In
the swamp early yesterday afternoon.
When Lewis emerged and was order
ed to throw up his hands he drew a
revolver and began firing at the offi
cers, who Immediately returned the
fire. Two bullets passed entirely
through the negro’s body and all the
fingers of his right hand were shot
away by the fussllade from the offi
cers' weapons. He was hurried to
Bennettsvllle but died shortly after
ward.
$0,028,000 IRE
FDR RDGKEEEEEER
New York.—The further advance in
Standard Oil issues yesterday added
more than $32,000,000 to the aggregate
value of the Stundard Oil Company’s
and $8,023,000 to the value of John D.
Rockefeller’s holdings, It was estimat
ed this morning. The figures as to
Mr. Rockefeller’s profits were based on
the assumption that his holdings nrq
now virtually the same as they were
on the dissolution of the company as
Indicated by the latest stock lists of
the Standard Oil. Company, of Indiana,
and the Standard Oil Company, of
New York. The daly’s increase In tho
value of Mr. Rockefeller’s holdings of
Standard Oil of New Jersey alone
amounted to $3,219,000.
Infantile Paralysis There.
Tarrytown. N. Y,—lnfantile paraly
sis has Invaded the estate of John D.
Rockefeller and statements made by
health authorities indicate that a quar
antine will be Imposed, thus prevent
ing Mr. Rockefeller from returning
here from Cleveland as he had plan
ned. The victim Is the 3-year-old
daughter of an employe on the estate.
HELD UNDER GUARD ON
CHARGE OF WIFE MURDER
Mountain Visw, N. H.—Frederick L.
Small, who was arrested yetrt<" af
ter the finding of his wife's bob, th*
ruins of his burned cottage here re
mained under guard at a hotel today
pending a hearing later In the district
court on a charge of murder In the
first degree.
Dr. B. Frank Horne, medical referee,
who examined Mrs. Small's body, said
today that the skull was fractured,
apparently by a blunt Instrument, and
that she had been strangled by th*
cord found tied about her neck.
TORPEDO
OF SUBS
DIDN’T
DOIT
Berlin, by Sayvllle.)—“Neither the
steamer Kelvinia nor the sU mer Strath
tay was attacked by German subma
rines It is stated by competent authori
ties,“ the Over-Seas News Agency an
nounces today.
“Consequently reports In foreign news
papers alleging that these steamers were
torpedoed oy German craft without
warning are untrue.”
The British steamer Kelvinia from
Newport News for Glasgow was sunk
September 2nd. The state department
was advised September 22nd by the Am
erican embassy at London that the Brit
ish admiralty had decided the Kelvinia
had been sunk by a mine and not by a
torpedo as had been reported.
Twenty-eight Americans wore on
board the Kelvinia as hostlers and all
were rescued.
The British steamer SStrathay from
New York for Havre, was sunk Septem
ber 6th in the English channel. It was
reported to Washington that she had
been torpedoed. Two Americans were
members of her crew.
No Americans Aboard.
Washington.-^Consul Hurst at Bar
celona, Spain, reporting today to the
state department the sinking of the
Italian steamer Benpark and the
Italian steamer Nitnolo, said that no
Americans were aboard either ship.
The Benpark, from Philadelphia to
Genoa, with a general cargo, was sunk
by a submarine about forty miles off
Barcelona, Sept. 26, and the Nitnolo,
from Norfolk, was torpedoed off Bra
gonero, Balearic Islands, Sept. 24.
IST FOREARM
IN GOLD OUTFLOW
Kansae City, Mo. —The annual con
vention of the American Bankers’ As
sociation Is expected to close here to
day with the passage of numerous res
olutions, the election of officers and
the choice of next year's meeting
place.
The chief resolution to come before
the convention today will he one In
troduced yesterday by Geo. E. Webb,
of San Angelo, Texas, which asks a
congressional investigation Into the
livestock Industry because "for twenty
years the production of cattle has not
kept pace with the increase in popula
tion, but has decreased.”
Warburg’s Warning.
Kasnas City, Mo. —“Heavy exports of
gold from this country to Europe may
follow the close of the European war,”
said Paul M. Warburg, vice governor
of the Federal reserve, In his address
before the American Bankers’ Asso
ciation here today.
"Foreign loans In the old and new
world may attract our capital at In
terest rates far In excess of our own,”
he said. ‘Our expbrts will have to
meet the keen competition of other
nations, while the purchasing power
of many a nation will he found ma
terially reduced, even though In the
beginning there will he a strong de
mand for certain of our raw mater
ials.
"These conditions, In the long run,
may be the cause of heavy gold ex
ports from the United States, and If
we remain unprepared, may prove a
serious check.
Mult Forearm. •
"If on the other hand we forearm,
we will be given the opportunity of
taking our place as the strongest of
the world’s hankers and furnished the
basis of a solid expansion of our bus
iness.”
Mr. Warburg appealed to the bank
ers to "forearm by Increasing their
balances with the Federal reserve
banks and releasing some of the gold
in Iheir vaults.
“Keep all the gold in your vaults
where It is useless for yourselves and
deprive it of the additional force that
It may gain in the hands of the Fed
eral reserve banks. Keep every cash
till in hotels, railroads stations, dry
goods stores and what not filled with
gold certificates and you will rob the
country of its legitimate opportuni
ties of growth, of helping the world.”
"Lawful" Money.
He cited figures to show that Ihe ex
cess lending power of the Federal re
serve hanks Is $206,101,000 If loans are
taken In "lawful” money, and $.101.-
526,250 If the loans are taken In Fed
eral reserve notes. Me advocated
speedy retirement of national hank
notes in favor of reserve notes In or
der to obtain a currency that Is elas
tic." The Federal reserve act should
be perfected, he said, In various de
tails, although "profoundly convinced
that the Federal reserve act will prove
one of the most constructive contribu
tions ever made by congress and the
further the system develops the more
apparen this will become,"
VIRGINIANS READY TO GO
WHILE RY’S GETTING CARS
Richmond, Va.— The four batteries
of Virginia field artillery, under gen
eral orders from the war department
to move from Richmond to Han An
tonio as promptly as possible are all
ready to go but It la doubtful now If
they can get away for several days
for lack of railway transportation.
Chesapeake and Ohio, and Norfolk
and Western officials are engaged In
assembling the necessary cars at
Richmond.
SNOW IN ALABAMA.
Gadsden, Ala.—-A light snow, the
first In this section this season, fell
last night, melting as fast as It
descended.
BERLIN’S
PAPERS
BITTER
ONUS
Berlin, Sept. 29 (via. London, Sept.
30). —Practically all the Berlin news
papers contribute to the bitter criti
cism which 1h being made of the Amer
icans who have Joined the French
army. The news of the death In ac
tion of Flight Lieutenant KifTen Rock
well, of Atlanta and Asheville, has pre
cipitated a storm of criticism.
The Post says that the presence
of Rockwell and others In enemy
camps cannot be regarded ns the actß
of individuals but declares that Amer
ica sends its own citizens to European
theatres of war to tight Germany.
The paper says that the Rockwell
Incident shows "to what a depth re
gard for neutrality has sunk among
our enemies and in America. Such
an unheard of conception of neutral
ity deserves to be labelled in the plain
est way and not to be forgotten."
The Tageliche Rundsohau speaks of
the concepts of neutrality ns entirely
lost and the Kreuz Zeitung, Germania
and Boersen Zeitung print similar
statements.
3 MORE OF ’EM
NABBED AT 4 A.M.
Chicago.—Two men and a woman
werearrested by agents of the depart
ment of Justice In a raid on a private
apartment house at 4 o’clock this
morning and hold In conectlon with
the operations of the Mann act black
mailers syndicate.
Pursuing their Investigation of the
cose of a wealthy merchant of Cedat
Rapids, lowa, who Is alleged to have
been swindled out of $15,000 by the
syndicate. Federal officials today took
possession Qf a packet of letters said
to have been written by tho merchant
to two Chicago girls whom he charges
with having lured him to their apart
ment In Chicago where the blackmail
was exacted.
Attorneys for the girls contend that
the lowa man wronged his clients and
paid them $15,000 as recompense.
PHILLIES LEADING
IN NATIONAL RACE
Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, N. Y.—Phil
adelphia took the lead In the National
league pennant raee by defeating
Brooklyn In the morning game by the
score of 7 to 2. Luderua’ batting was
a big factor In the Phillies' victory.
Eppa Itixey kept the Brooklyn hits
well scattered and was complete mas
ter of the situation In the pinches. On
the other hand Pfeffer was lilt hard
by the l’hlllles.
A comparatively small crowd wit
nessed the contest. The weather was
clear and cold.
Score: , K. H. E.
Philadelphia .. ..7 10 2
Brooklyn 2 5 1
AMBASSADOR PAGE AND
J. P. MORGANJSAIL TODAY
New York. .1. P. Morgan, financial
agent of the British government In the
United States, has engaged passage on
the American line steamship New
York, sailing today. It Is reported
that Mr. Morgan Is going to London
to arrange for flouting another Brit
ish loan of |2fi0,000,000 to he backed by
American securities.
Bankers who were questioned about
the oportunlty for floating another
British loan, said that never before
has there been such a demand for
bonds.
Walter Hines Page, the American
ambassador to Great Britain, and Mrs.
Page ulso are passengers on the New
York. *
GUILTY BUT MITIGATING
CIRCUMSTANCES.SAYS JURY
Gallatin, Tenn.—-A Jury trying Virgil
Butts for murder, for the killing of
Albert Hester In July, 1014, today
brought In a verdict of guilty In the
first degree hut reported that Clrcum
stanaces of the killing were mitigating.
Butts is a liveryman and Hester was
a Portland, Tenn., capitalist and for
mer postmaster. Trouble Is said to
have started over Butts' ulleged at
tention to Hester’s wife. The men
met. on a street In Portland when
both were armed and the shooting
started. Butts was shot In a leg and
Hester was killed.
SUIT FOR SBOO,OOO IN
MEDITERRANEAN SINKING
Asheville, N. C.- Judge J. C. Prich
ard announced today that he would
call a special term of the United Htates
circuit court of appeals In Richmond,
Va„ October 5, to hear an appeal In
the case of the Greek ship Mina against
the Italian ship Atiuallta. Damage In
the sum of SBOO,OOO is sued for by the
Mina’s owners us a result of a collision
between the two vessels Iri Ihe Medi
terranean. The Mina was sunk. The
Attuallta was libeled at Norfolk. Judge
Waddlll heard the ease and ordered
the release of the Italian ship on the
grounds that at ths time of the collis
ion the Attuallta was reoulsltioned by
the Italian government. The libellants
appealed. Points In International law
are Involved.
RETURNS TO THE BRITISH
FRONT AFTER HE’S WED
CART (TORN JACOB ASTOR.
Capt. Astor, son of Baron Astor, has
returned to the British trenches which
he left to marry Lady Nalrne. As son
and heir of Huron Astor he is rated
as one of the wealthiest young men in
England.
ALL GREEK ISLANDS
HAVENOW JOINED
THE REVOLUTION
London.—Telegraphing from Salonl
ki, Reuter’s correspondent says:
"The island of Chios has declared in
favor of the national defense move
ment. All the islands have now gone
to the movement.
“The town of Kozani, In western Ma
cedonia, has Joined the movement and
sequestered 25,000 drachma of state
funds which were being transferred to
Athens. Former Premier Vonlzolos
and Admiral Coundourlotls have tele
graphed local followers that the Cre
tans at an armed meeting proclaimed
a provisional govennment composed of
Venizellsts and Coundourlolsts with
the power to add a third member and
that the new government was given
the power to oln the entente.”
MEATLESS DAT IN
ENGLAND WEEKLY
London.—On® meatless day a week for
all not engaged in heavy manual labor
is the chief feature of regulation of the
food price made by the Britinh board of
trade committee who have been Investi
gating the increase in the cord of living.
The committee also recommended the
opening of municipal shops In districts
whore retailors are obtaining excessive
profits. A third stop advised is the re
vision of payrolls to Improve the posi
tion of those who have hitherto beno
fltted insufficiently in the general in
crease in wages.
bulgaSnsTet
NEW ARMY HEAD
Amsterdam (vis. London). —A dis
patch from Holla says tlmt Colonel
Lukoff, deputy chief of tho general
staff, has been appointed chief of staff
to succeed the late General Jostoff.
General Jostoff was reported to have
died from appendicitis on September
1. It was reported In Amsterdam at
tho time that he hud committed sui
cide because of Bulgaria’s delay In de
claring war on Rumania. Another ver
sion of his death, published by the
London Times, was that he had been
murdered. According to the Times’
story, General Jostoff was an obstacle
to the German control of the Bulgarian
army.
“Growing Certainty."
Berlin (vie. London),—The Vosslche
Zeitung prints a report from Vienna
that the retirement of Baron von Bu
rlan as Austro-Hungarian minister of
foreign affairs Is rumored there with
"growing certainly.” Baron Karl von
Macchlo, former ambassador to Rome,
It Is added, as most frequently men
tioned as Baron Burton's successor.
NEW ACTION ON LIEBKNECHT.
Amsterdam (via London). —The Ber
liner Tageblatt, a copy of which has
been received here, says a government
tribunal has begun new action against
Ur. Karl Llebkneoht, one of the Ger
man socialist loaders, who Is charged
with attempting to Incite to disobe
dience and rebellion the soldiers of the
Thorn Garrison with letters he sent to
them.
FROM SCORPION’S BITE.
Beaoon, N. Yr—Temporary Insanity
Induced by Illness following the bite of
a scorpion while on the way with his
regiment to McAllen, Texas, In July
Is believed to have caused the suicide
hero yesterday of Hergennt William
Hantec, of Company K, Third Infantry,
New York national guard. Tho body
was takon to his homo at Hornell, N. Y.
Santee was a veteran of tho Span
tsh-Amerlcan war.
FOUND GUILTY^*2OO,OOO SHORT
Fort Smith, Ark.— I T. W. M. Boono.
president of the Ho FUnlak American
National bank, which failed with a
shortage reported by bank examiners
to have been more than $200,000, was
found guilty by a Jury In the Federal
court here today on ono count of an
Indictment charging falsification of a
report of the bank’s condition to the
comptroller of the currency.
BRITISH BTEAMER SUNK.
London —Lloyds agency reports that
tho British steamer Ralius has boon
sunk.
$7.00 PER YEAR—S CENTS PER COPY
MONTH’S
BRITISH
LOSSES
HEAVT
Desperate fighting has been In
progress along the northern end of
the Somme front where the British
recently have made Important In
roads upon German positions south
of the Ancre.
London today reports heavy
counter attacks by the Germans
and declares that a division of the
new British army acquitted Itself
most creditably In beating oft the
Germans.
Further down the line toward
the Somme tho French have re
sumed their attacks, pushing fur
ther the wedge Into the German
Hues In the region of Rancourt.
3,800 a Day.
London—British losses In September
were at the rate of more than 3,800 a
day. The Casualties on all fronts re
ported In this month were: Officers,
5,439; men, 114,110.
Success in French Attscks.
Paris.—The French have made fur
ther progress north of Hancourt by
grenade attacks, according to the of
ficial statement Issued by the war of
fice today.
Unusually Heavy Fighting.
London.—Unusually heavy fighting
occurred yesterday on the Sommo
front, in consequence of German coun
ter attacks. A division of the new
British array wuh engaged. The of
ficial account follows:
"During the night the enemy shelled
our battle front south of the Ancre. We
consolidated the ground won yester
day northwest of UeSars and Improved
our position in the'Thiepval area.
“Enemy counter attacks were beaten
off In the neighborhood of Btauff Re
doubt and Hessian trenches. The
fighting In this section of the now
army--showed great endurance ahd
resolution."
Bulgars Repulse Serbs,
Bofia, Friday, Sept. 29, (via London,
Sept. 30).—Bulgarian troops after ra
pulslng a Serbian attack on the Kal
makcalan heights on the Macedonian
front made a counter nttack and cap
tured a trench forming part of the
principal Serbian position, the war of
fice annonunced today.
British in Macedonia.
London.—The following official re
port from the Macedonian front waa
Issued today:
"On both the Struma and Dolran
fronts there has been the usual patrol
activity on both sides. The royal navy
shelled and dispersed an enemy column
east of Neohorl and aeruplanes of the
royal naval air sorvlge bombed the
Anglsta railway station."
Russian Official.
Petrograd.—“There were no events
of Importance on the western or the
Caucasian fronts,” says today’s com
munication from the war office.
Serbian Official.
Saloniki, Friday, Sept. 29.—(Via
London, Sept. 30.)—"There is nothing
particular to report,” Hays the official
statement Issued by the Serbian war
office today.
Falkenhayn Wins.
Berlin, (via London). —Troops under
General von Falkenhayn. former chief
of the general staff, have won a battle
at Ilermannstadt, Transylvania, de
feating strong sections of the first
Rumanian army, the war office an
nounced today.
Air Bomba on Sofia.
Paris, (via London). —The war office
announced today that a French aero
plane sturttng yesterday from the Ma
cedonian front passed over Bulgaria,
dropping bombs on Sofia and contin
ued Its flight to Bucharest. No heavy
fighting on the Macedonian front la
reported.
LIFE IN PRISON OR
WHAT FOR HER?
Philadelphia, Mist.—The Jury In the
trial of Mrs. Ethel Winstead, charged
with complicity In the murder last
January of her husband, Samuel Win
stead, farmer and mill owner here, to
day after 48 hours deliberation ren
dered a verdict of guilty, but disagreed
as to the punishment. The verdict
stated:
"The Jury wants the defendant to
have all the favors the law will ad
mit of.”
After the Jury waa Informed that life
Imprisonment was the minimum sen
tence for the crime. In the absence of
a Jury's recommendation, two Jurors
told the court the Jury would not have
agreed upon a verdict of guilty had
they understood the minimum penalty.
The prosecutor opposed sending back
llio Jury to agree on a penalty and the
Jury was discharged. Defense attor
neys filed motions asking annullment
of the verdict.
Mrs. Winstead, on the stand, denied
the testimony of Ale* Cater, serving a
life sentence for killing Winstead that
the wife had urged him for a year to
shoot her husband and directed the
murder.
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