St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 24, 1914

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Big and little boats 5 follow it in and out to avoid a big Your To Let or For Sale ad may be] felter of shoal water known as the made the most timely and important] potato patch,” which begins just be- thing in the paper to many ot the read-| yond the channel and runs for miles ers of the POST-DISPATCH Big House, | to sea. In clear weather it is easily | Home and Real Estate directory. navigated. ERS “es 7 ö mine or a German torpedo Oct. 27, Ger- 1 ate and turn the tide! * men craft would have to travel 3 f t t The St. Louis merchants after many years of ex- 259 miles southwest from the north eoast f Scotland rience know the unequaled pulling power of. the o Confileting reports have reached h - POsT-DISPATCH and therefore concentrated their er me Known to Friends as a Patrick’ H. Nolan, 53 years old, vice- tesident and manager of the Mutual rewing Co. and professional promoter ’ breweries, stot and killed himself in 5 office at Boyle and Duncan avenues st night after he had spent the day Mammoth Open Air Production siting creditors, trying to get their ? Wagneria proval of a mortgage plan by which 55 5 Ne ne eee was hoped to lift bankruptcy and re- ext June. vership proceedings now pending CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 24.—Under iinst the Mutual Brewing Co. the auspices of. Harvard University a ossible motives advanced are busi- | mammoth outdoor yore presentation of Wag- § Peverses and impaired sight. No- * pa * ner’s “Siegfried” will de presented at ‘recently lost the use of his right the Harvard stadium about June 3. Ar- When, in trying to remove a cinder * train, he scratched the eyeball | rangements have been made to bring the his thumb nail. ' entire Metropolitan Opera Company or- les A. Autenrieth, whom Nolan/|chestra, augmented to 125 musicians, to d at Olayton shortly before end- Boston, under the baton of the Wag- 7 said. Nolan had been told] nerian.conductor, Alfred Hertz. i loge the sight of his other ere] The cast will be composed of famous artists. Rudolf Berger will sing the title role of Siegfried; Johanna Gadsk: will sing Brunnhilde; Mme. Schumann- Heink, Erda: Alma Gluck, Waldvogel; Albert Reiss, Meime; Otto Goritz, Al- berich; Clarence Witchell, Wotan, and Basil Ruysdael, Father. Are Being Pursued ‘View — Fighting in the Argonne District in Is Without N otable Result. oe \ By the Associated Press. LONDON, Nov. 24.—An official communication given out N Petrograd, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch, nounces German retreat in Poland. The statement follows: „Between the Vistulo and the Warta the Germans have retreated from the line running from Strykow to Zgiers, Sa- . dek, Zdunska, Wola and Wonniki.“ ed : This line runs from the northeast of Lodz down — that and to the southwest. | Tyree ia is The ‘Times Petrograd correspondent, in 6 ‘Mapai i f Gering that private advices: received in the Russian e the reports of a Russian victory over the Germans in Poland, says: * J Aecording to unofficial information reaching here, the German 4 my © of 400,000, which made an irruption between the Vistula. and Warta en, has been broken up into several parts, one of which was compelled: — its course southward and another northward. „ Apparently in each case the Rusisan . forces succeeded in cot hind these disjointed corps and inflicted upon them great losses; „The Germans are believed to have suffered very heavy reverses at Sonny and Tuszyn. It is impossible as yet to give even 5 *. ures. “Large bodies of the epemy’s forces | 1 were gurroundet, and captured near Lowicz,“ continues the Times dispa tch. ae ‘The enemy is reported in some cases at as abandoning his guns. “It is expected, however, that Gen. von Hindenburg, who has been rein- forced by a new reserve corps, will at tempt an offensive at another point on the Polish border.“ The Daily Telegraph Petrograd corres- pondent intimates the German Crown Prince's ariny during the last five days threatened Warsaw, but was severely repulsed. The correspondent says, how (ver, that his forces arrived alarmingly close to Warsaw before they were fin- ally checked. Czar Tells Wounded ef Victory. A dispatch to the Morning Post from Petrograd, dated Monday, says: “Emperor Nicholas, visiting the Francs * A —— as : . a N 1 * 3 Se . — ee Oe - Be. — 3 ——v— — « ice. was to have been examined to- ay at a continuation of the hearing before Commissioner Coles n the Security Building. At this hear- ng also appraisers were to report as o the physical valuation of the com- an' property. The brewery office where Nolan took tis life was only a block and a half — his home at 4355 Forest Park | less than s wife on 0 ur telling her he irs be | — With Nolan in one of the Unlike the majority of Great Brit | ain’s submarines, the German craft are divided by a series of bulkheads, as seen in the illustration. All are driven by heavy oil engines on the surface and electric motors when be- low water, and the crews, who are well trained, number in the later boats’ more than two dozen men. SUBMARINE SUNK Vii SOU TLAND: dp | GERMANS “fl Vessel German Destroyer in a Collision. n . 2 2. x * 9 * 1 > * 2 * ’ . eS 4 Ss : . : 2 oe SOPOT POP. LOI ON” 0 t * ; ‘ 7 > GETS $75,000 FOR SAVING GIRL’S LIFE 28 YEARS AGO 4 85 . 4a a a 2 AER Montville (Conn.) Boat Man Learns of Béquest by Man He Had ad’ Forgotten, MONTVILLE, Conn., Nov. 24.—A be- quest of $75,000 is the reward which has been given Henry A. Bolles of this place, it was learned today, for saving a Hittle girl from drowning in the Thames River 28 years ago. The girl was the daughter of a Mr. Trumbull of New York City. She had fallen over- board from ner father’s yacht. Bolles, who was a boatman, said today he re membered. the father asking him his name, but he had heard nothing more from him. Trumbull died within the last two weeks and Bolles has just been notified of the bequest by the executors of the Trumbull estate. HELD OFFICE 64 YEARS — — — — Hillsboro (N. C.), Father Thrice After R Was 86. HILLSBORO, N. C., 24.—Death from pneumonia, today ended the 64 years’ service of John Laws as Register ot Deeds of Orange County. Laws was 93 and it is believed his record stands as the longest continuous service in an elective office in the Uni States. He was elected first in 1850 when the office of Register was established. Laws leaves three children by his sec- € aig veo 4 4 * _ 8 . 4 od — * 5 > “ > = : ™ 8 Se * — 22 nad driven to the Nolan they learned Mrs. Nolan as out. 2 the way to the brewery Ker walking home from a wing picturé show. Nolan asked her cz ted to take an automobile 1 "ho reviled she was cold and would rote go home. All right. I'll be = re ‘few minutes,” said Nolan. drove dee the brewery with red his private office and eat. At the office en- met August Dreyer, the „ and given him a * BERLIN, by wireless to Sayville, L. jer Hears Report. in an adjoining office ard a report which he, at t was the bursting of an 3 Bebe. He entered No- | found Nolan lying on Was a wound near his Swedish King Sends fe te to Embassy n U. S. by Messenger NEW YORK, Nov. 44. ER OSTBERG, special mes- P senger of the King of Swed- en, reached New York this afternoon on the steamship. Hellig Olav from Christiansand, bearing a message from King Gustav to the Swedish Embassy at Washington, which he said was too important to trust either to the mails or the cables. He departed at once for Washington. : The messenger said the packet had been sealed personally by the King and. was entrusted to him only a few hours before the steam- er sailed. Ostberg thought. the message, did not deal with Swed- ‘en’s neutrality status. 80 far as I know, Sweden will remain strictly neutral,“ he said. , The Hellig Olav was 8 by the British. cruiser Drake, north of Shetlahd Island and permitted to proceed after the cruiser’s officers had examined her parsenger lat and manifest. BOMB N WARSAW ALMOST. WRECKS Poland reached its helene’ the middle of October, met its repulse in the last week” that month. On Oct. 13 the * n 9 Washington that the Polish capit was about to fall into the” mans’ hands, and asked for structions as to the care of foreign” § interésts during the expected Gere 7 man occupancy. 1 The German progress Warsaw continued after that sage, and Ivangorod as — Warsaw was threatened with cupation: Warsaw was so nea approached that its outer dete ers fully expected a night but for some unexplained nr 15 this attack was not dellvered, an meantime reinforcements - ; brought up, which were uate | for the defense of the city.) ne ft. a Man, 93, 2 opt: me or abet LONDON, Nov. 24.—The Secretary of the Admiralty“ announces the German submarine boat U18, which was reported off the north coast of Scotland yester- day morning, was rammed by a British patrolling vessel and foundered. The patrolling ship rammed the sub- marine at 12:20 p. m. The U18 was not seen again until 1:20, when she appeared on the surface “flying a white flag. Shortly after this she foundered just as the British destroyer Garry went along- side. The destroyer rescued three of- ficers and 23 of the submarine's crew, only. one being drowned. The German officers rescued are Captain- Lieutenant von Henning, Engineer-Lieutenant’ Sprenger. and Lieut. Neuerberg. The submarine Ulis was bullt in 1912. She had a cruising radius of 2000 miles and a speed of 14 knots above water and eight knots submerged. The north coast of Scotland is approxi. mately 500 miles northeast of the Ger- man naval base at Wilhelmshafen. To reach the northern coast of Ireland, where the British superdreadnaught Au devious was sunk either by a German FRENCH WOUNDED PARIS, Nov. .23.—The Institute ot Zc ological: Psychology reports that the dogs that accompany the French am- bulances are behaving well under fire. The director of this. Institute - testifies: All reports are most encouraging. Some wounded in the Tsarkoe-Selo Hospital Jot the details of their instructions may this afternoon told the men that news | be open To question. It is probably bad _ had been received of a Russian success that they should. be taught to bring 1: between the Warta and Vistula rivers, the caps and handkerchiefs of wounded where two entire German regiments | soldiers, but our dogs of war are per- were taken prisoners. : forming noteworthy service, and it is a “It ig repo-ted that the Emperor was It, that we have not many more of in extremely cheerful mood. From this them.“ it is presumed the turning point really The leader of one section of the am- hag been reached in the battle. Lulance dogs says: “The best-dog given| At is also reported unofficially here to me at first pulled so hard on the that the Russians already are bombard- leash that he tired me out; he would not ing Cracow, which is in flames always return on the first call. a trick that would be unfortunate under firc: FIGHTING CEASES IN SOUTH POLAND he was terrified even by distant artli- lery and it appeared as if he would be Berlin Declares No Decision Has Been Reached in Russian useless in action. But in a week. that BERLIN, 2 London, Nov. dog was valuable beyond words. I have 4.— An official communication given out — + siete Sot i - 1 c 1 1 5 i 925 Payer * wa: . * 8 *. 4 ——— eee teday returned with him from recover- ing ‘wounded soldiers almost in the enemy's trenches with incessant din an around him. Tonight just before the anibulances were to return I took him „ut for one last inspection. In a halt - concerning the fate of the German tor- advertising Monday its competitors combined. Post D the figures: e 00 2 by using more space in the POST-DISPATCH alone than in we out of all four of ost- Dispatch, alone . . 46 cols. ee MBINED in a medium of known value and turn tion will cause a:speedy transformation. St. Louis’ ONE BIG Newspaper j First 10 Months of 1914: pedo boat destroyer 812d. which was in collision Sunday with the steamer: An- giodane in the Baltic outside of Falsterbo, Sweden. One report states two German torpedo boats attempted to tow her to Sweden, though she was in a sinking condition, but there is no report of her arrival. Other reports state she sank almost immediately. | A dispatch to Reuters Telegraph Co. . > 42 cols. ay), 176,487 312,954 of the consulate were killed and wound- ‘| Man Women ang Chil ” New Attack U.S. CONSULATE WASHINGTON, Nov. 2%—A bomb from a e airship. fell in front of the American consulate at Warsaw today, breaking the windows of the con- sulate but injuring no one within, ac- Ording to a telegram dated today from American Ambassador Marye at Petro- grad. 8 Several persons in the street in front] ed, but no American was hurt, ‘hour he found three soldiers who.other- | wise might have died of exposure. More- over, he never touched one of them, bu: him.“ A writer in Le Matin claims that the Germans have 37,000 dogs mostly pur onased in France that are now being trained to go with the ambulances. 4 French society has been formed to train dogs for this work and already many dogs: are “at school.” ee “advices ces, revelved 33 3 ee ae Sa ran back and forth ti I came up ved today by the German headquarters’ staff, says: