St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 9, 1915

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Do mntown Sines These * 6 See next 3 ‘tom features at the pe t ee the front want page Sunday. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With Alssociated Press News Service. EDITION a VOL. 68. NO. 111. ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1915—28 PAGES, PRICE ONE CENT | SPORTS amusement pages and the — UR TM SUTHEST SER alas Ferdinands Troops and Teu- tons Have Almost Cleared Country of Its Soldiers, Who Flee Into Albania Without Guns. Albanian Tribesmen, Main- taining Blood Feud, Harass Retreating Troops by Vigorous Attacks. Austrians Begin Great En- veloping Movement in Ef- fort to Bag Montenegro’s Little Army. LONDON, Dec. §.-Sir Edward Grey, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and Field Marshal Karl Kitchener, the Sec- retary for War, went to Paris yesterday to confer with the French Government, it was officially announced this after- noon. BERLIN, via London, Dec. 9.-Four towns near the southwestern Servian frontier have been captured by the Bul- garians, the War Office announced to- day. They are Ochrida, 18 miles north of the Greek border; Struga, northeast of Ochrida; Dibra, 3 miles above Och- rida, and Djakova, over the border in Southwestern Montenegro. “Battles on the Vardar (French front) are progressing favorably,” the War Of- fice announcement adda. The outstanding feature of the situa- tion on the Servian front as shown by information received here is that the Albanian tribesmen, particularly the redoubtable Arnauts, have risen against _ the fragments of the’ Servian forces “which have succeeded in getting across the frontier inth the Albaian moun- tains. > —— — express the be- Of that the Servians have little mercy expect from the Alhuntans who main-. tain the blood feud geclared after the Bervian ‘“‘assimiletion’:-of-the tribes- men in the parts of Albania occupied by them during and after the Balkan war with Turkey. With the exception of a email band of Servians, the remnant of the Monas- tir army north of Ochrida Lake, no part of the Servian arinies remains on Ser- Vian soll, it is stated. The fugitives, without artillery or transport trains and with only such supplies as they can ‘Garry on their backs, are struggling not only with the pursuing Bulgars, Austro-Germans and hostile Albanians. but with the rigors of fall winter tn the pathless Albanian Mountains. The Montenegrin army, with such Ser- Vians as were able to retreat in con- _ dunction with it, is said to be in slightly better plight. The Montenegrins have been driven from their strong mountains along the crest of the Suhodof range, 8500 feet in height, on the northeastern frontier. The Austrians stormed these positions at the point of the bayonet, after sufficient artillery preliminaries. Envelopment Threatened. : The Montenegrins were badly defeat- ed, it is reported, but managed to re- treat In an intact body and are con- ducting operations on their own soil with a line of retreat. and supply through a friendly country. . Snel enveloping movement on a big 73 however, i reported to be tn — and Austrian forces advancing into the Biack Mountains from three - sides in an overwhelming force may » succeed in rounding up and bagging the _ Montenegrin army, military experts bo- ~~ Neve. The opinion is expressed that this reported at the Greek border. _ Atigio-French lines reforming almost |. Within Greek territory, it is believed | here Greece cannot postpone much ‘ CLOUDY TONIGHT, WARMER, LOWEST TEMPERATURE 34 THE TEMPERATURES, Yesterday's Temperatures, High, 55 at 3 . m. Low, 35 at 12 (midnight). Humidity at 7 p. m. yesterday, 70 per cent; at 7 a. m. today, 8 per cent. MORE TAX. LOOK OUT FOR PUNCTURES. Official fore- east for St, Louis and vicinity: Generally cloudy weather tanight and tomorrow ; slightly warmer tonight, with the lowest tempera- ture about 34, Missouri: F air tonight; tomor- row, incr easing cloudiness; prob- ably rain in north portion by night; slightly war met tonight. Illinole: Fair tonight; tomor- row, incr easing cloudiness; prob- ably snow or rain in north portion; not much change in temperature. CHURCHWOMEN 10 SERVE HONEY FROM HIVE BUILT IN CHURCH They Get Year’s Crop of 100 Pounds From Roof With Aid of a Carpenter. The Ladies’ Aid Society of the Firet Presbyterian Church, Kdwardsville, will give a hot biscuit supper Saturday night and will serve with the biscuits comb honey from the church. A large colony of bees has made its home in the roof of the building for sev- eral years and at a meeting e the socie- ty yesterday it was decided to gather the year’s crop. A roofer was sent for and while the women waited below he removed a section of the roof and ob- tained 100 pounds of honey. ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES SURPASS THE STEAM TYPE Two Pull Greater Load Than Three of the Old Kind on Mountain Grade of Milwaukee Road. BUTTE, Mont., Dec. 9.—Final tests of the comparative efficiency of stearn and electric jocomotives on the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Rallway were made near here yesterday on the Ed. | de. A trainload of 2200 tons was pulled by three of the heaviest Mallet type lo -comotives in the St. Paul service, and then a load of 3000 tons was drawn over the same wrade hy two of the large electric freight locomotives. The great- er ease with which the electric, locomo- lives pulled the heavier load, stopping cn the grade and then gathering speed, caused much satisfaction to the rail- road men. ENGLAND TO TRY A UNIQUE EXPERIMENT IN SOCIALISM Takes Over Stores, Saloons, and Other Business and Will Conduct Them for 20,000 Munition Workers. LONDON, Dec. 9.—The newspapers this morning describe a unique experi ment in state socialism which will be tried at an unnamed city in Nofth En- gland, where 2,000 men will soon be omployed in munition work. To pro- vide for the men and prevent extortion- ate prices, the Government has acquired all stores and shops in the district and will either allow the proprietor to sell goods under license or will, in most cases, run them under direct control of the Government. The Govetnment thus will be butcher, baker, grocer, milkman and barbdr to the whole population. All the saloons, 30 in number, have been bought by the Government. Woman 100 Years Old Dies. GALESBURG, III., Dec. 9.—Mra. Mary Roe, who was 100 years old Jan. 19, died today at her home in St. Augustine after two weeks’ illness. Mrs. Roe wan born in Norwich, N. V. Bight children. W grandchildren and 88 great-grandchil- dren survive. PHILADELPHIA IN CONVENTION RACE MI $100,000 Citizens From Quaker City Will Appear Before Republican Committee Tuesday. GUARANTY PLEDGED HERE Representative Men Headed by Mayor, Will Wage Campaign to Bring Gathering Here. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 9.—Provided with a check for $100,000 as a guaranty, a committee of promrnent Philadelphi- ans will appear before the National Re- publican Committee in Washington Tuesday and request that this city be selected as the place for the next Re- publican presidential convention. The committee will be headed by Con- gressman J. Hampton Moore. $100,000 PLEDGED FOR CONVENTION Committee. Departing Tomor- row for Republican Meeting Includes Mavor Kiel. Checks aggregating 3100,00 will be placed in the hands of the St. Louis delegation leaving forWashington tomor- row to get the Republican national con- vention of 1916. The $200,000 conventions fund has not been completed, but finan- cial arrangements have been made 80 St. that the committee representing Louis will be in a position to make a tender of cash to the Republican Na- tional Committee. The St. Louls delegation is departing ° with the same determination to win the Republican conventlon as the commit- tee which went last week and won the Democratic convention. The Republican convention will be 3 big attraction, it is expected, because there will be a number of presidential candidates, and no candidate will enter the convention with anything. like a majority of delegates. The convention, owrng to ¢ fight över the nonitnation, and p also a fight over the platform, may last for 10 days. Each candidate will have headquarters in St. Louis, and hun- dreds of politicians will come to help out their favorite. The personnel of the delegation to represent St. Louis in the contest for the Republican convention was an- nounced today. Among those who are going are Mayor Kiel, Edwards Whita- ker, J. Ak ALL BUT CLEARED AWAY Only Fifty Feet of Earth, 20 Feet High, Obstructs Canal Navigation. PANAMA, Dec. 9.—Such rapid progress has been made dredging the Galllard cut of the Panama Canal that now but 50 feet of earth blocks the channel. This land neck, less than % feet high, can be dredged in a few days unless the bulging up of the bottom. proceeds too rapidly for the work. Since’ the huge dipper dredge Cas- cadas began operations in the canal the | monthly yardage has been increased to 1,250,000 cubic yards, the most that ever has been taken from the canal on wet excavation work. Col. Goethals, however, continues to decline making a prediction as to when the canal will be reopened. He says the slides have not yet stopped, and it might be that it would be possible for them to close the canal again before a pre- diction was made good. A more cheerful spirit over the prob- ability of definitely overcoming the twin slides in the Cylebra-cut at an early date is being manifested by the canal engineers, including Col. Goethals. Although the prospects are that the waters of.the two sections of the canal will speedily join each other, there !s no expectation that the channel will be ready for the passage of ships for many weeks. GEAMAN PAPERS DEPLORE IMMORALITY DUE TO WAR Declare That Crime Has tncreased ia Fatheriand, Kapectally Ameoug the Young. LONDON, Dec: 9.—The latest Ger- man papers contain a chorus of com- plaint over the debasing effect of the war on German morality, especially among the young. The Cologne Gazette speaks of the truly terrifying picture” presented by the increase of crime, “among the young people in the industrial dis- tricta particularily,” where robberies with violence and attempted murder figure very tarwely. The Magdeburg Leitung denounces the usury, immorality, Neentiousness and degenerate love of luxury that prevails and invokes “the Lord God fof German history to aid In prevent- ing calamity from overwhelming our country.” The Berliner Tagebiatt declares: “These who-would deny the statement that the German peuple are in danger — being wholly submerged beneath wave of laxity and — breaking over the coun- : themsel STOPS 2. S, SHIPS AND TAKES 4 MEN German Firemen Made Prisoners —Search Was for German and Austrian Porto Rican Consuls. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Dec. 9.—The Porto Rico liner Coamo was stopped this morning by the French cruiser Descar~ tes, which took four German firemen from the merchantman to the warship The search lasted from 2 to 5:3 o'clock. The officers, the crew and the entire list of passengers were examined with great care. It is reported that the Descartes was looking for Waldemar Hepp, German Consul at San Juan, aud John Stubbe. the Austrian Consul, who are now in New York. Chief Steward Schaade of the Porte Rico liner Carolina was taken from that vessel last night. The Coamo and the Carolina are American steamships owned by the New York and Vorto Rico Steamship Co. The Coamo.was bound for San Juan from New York, having left that port on Dee 4. The Carolina arrived at San Juan Dec. 1, and was to have sailed thence for Ponce. Twe American Vensele Stepped and Searched by French Cruiser. NEW YORK, Dec §—Two American vessels were stopped and searched by a French cruiser, according to a cable gram from @an Juan received today by the New York and Porto Rico. line. *tating that their vesesela, Coamo and Carolina, bad been held up and searched. Officials of the line said they did not believe a protest to the State Depart- ment at Washington would be made, az the matter was not considered serious, Schande, the steward, has been in the line's employ six years, and lives in Brooklyn. WUDGE CLARK CUTS $500 FINE OF AN AUTO SPEEDER 10 $25 H-e Dectares Police Court Ansenmment fer Ernest Reorcher’s Foeerth of. fene tn Oppressive. Judge Clark in the Court of Criminal Correction today reduced to e the Ge many declines res CHANCELLOR STATES GERMANY’ POSTION PEACE PROPO “Always Ready to Discuss Peace Compatible With Dignity and Safety” He Says. “NO LONGER RESPONSIBLE |” FOR PROLONGING MISERY” * ** Parties in Reichstag Adopt Declaration Approv- ing Speech and Declaring Peace Terms Must Assure Germany’s Safety “Even if This ~ Implies Annexation of Territory.” test ig * * * * 1 uf 5 * By Associated Press. BERLIN, Dee. 9, by wireless to Sayville.— It our e make peace proposals compatible with Germany's dignity:aad safety, then we shall always be ready to discuss them,. said the Imperial Chancellor, Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, in addressing, > # Reichstag today. The Chancellor made it ear that in his opinion it wilh be folly for Germany to propose peace ‘‘as long as in the conntries of our enemies, the guilt and ignorance of statesmen are entangled with confusion of public opinion. We, se Conscious of her military. successes, the Chancellor said, Ger r ility for a further continuance of the war, Germany, he declared, could not be charged with the purpose fighting on to make further conquest. „The war ean be terminated only by a peace which will g the certitude. that war will not return, the Chancellor d „We all agree about that. He asserted Germany’s food supplies were sufficient and ut ler immense stores of copper were adequate for many years, After the Chancellor had made his address, which was in to a Socialist interpellation, the other parties made a joint dees tion aproving the Chancellor’s utterences and indorsing-the view. that in the conditions of. peace made after the war there m guarantees for Germany’ 8 safety and, even if this implies annex. ation of territory. In Response to Socialist Interpe llation. The address of Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg has been awaited with extraordinary interest. It was in response to this Socialist interpellation: “Is the Imperial Chancellor ready to give information as to the condi- tions under which he would be willing to enter into peace — In his reply, the Chancellor said: 5 “As long as in the countries of our enemies the guilt and ignorance. of statesmen are entangled with confusion of public opinion, it i be folly for Germany to make peace proposals, which would ~ shorten, but would lengthen the duration of the war. First, masks must be torn from their faces. “At present they speak of a war of annihilation against us. we: have to take this fact into account. Theoretical arguments for or proposals of peace will not advance us, will not bring the at nearer. “If our enemigg make peace proposals. compatible with der- many's dignity and safety, then we shall always be ready to discuss. them. Fully conscious of our unshaken military successes we declite _ responsibility for continuatidn of the misery which now fills Europe and the whole world. No one can say that we continue the war be cause we still desire to conquer this or that country as u guarantes,” In these words the Chancellor, with impassioned force, stated. the position of the German Government on the question of peace, 8 marks were cheered with great enthusiasm. ; | When Dr. Bethmann-Hollweg rose to reply to the | the deputies interrupted him with cheers. Vulnerable Points of British Empire Threatened. . Dr. von Bethmann-Holiweg began by saying that to war with Germany there had been much discussion of