INTERNATIONAL FAIXS PRESS flashTsf^IatTlefieTos WILL U. S. DR. VICTORIKO BUSTILLOS DR. BERNHARD DERNBURG OUT THBE EXPLOIT OF •-•—e—«—»—e— E Belgrade, former capital of Servia, which city was occupied by the Austrians early this month, has been recaptured'by FIRING KE BY FROM AUSTINS the Serbs. The Austrians officially admit defeat at the hands of the little Slav nation with heavy losses. 7 Berlin says the Austrians have thus BULLETS CONTINUE TURKISH BATTLESHIR, MESSUDI*. far been unable to clear Hungary of WAR OFFICE OF DUAL MONARCHY ACROSS MEXICAN YEH TORPEDOED AND SUNK the Russian forces, also that the Austro-German ADMITS EXTENDED RETIREMENT forces in the east are AT NACO DESPITE BY SUBMARINE IN THE AND HEAVY meeting with stubborn resistance. ING GIVEN. DARDANELLES. LOSSES. In the western theater of war the French claim to have gained some PRESIDENT WILL WAI TWO AUSTRIAN WARSHIPS ground, especially around St. Mihiel HUNGARIANS CANNOT and to have had the best of several SUNK IN ADRIATIC SEA ANOTHER DAY, IS DRIVE OUT RUSSIANS artillery duels. The rulers of Norway, Sweden and Then if Demands of the Unite Denmark are to meet this week at Torpedoboats of Dual Monarchy Strike Dispatch From German Source Tell» Malmo when, it is thought, relations Are Not Complied With Mines While En Route to Lishat of Foothold Muscovites Have Gained of the Scandinavian countries will be Threat to Return With A«-»-ai-«» Says Message From Trieste In the Carpathians—Suffering discussed as well as the question of tillery Fire Will Be —Crews of Both Vessels neutrality. in Poland Declared Equal a Reality. Are Lost. to That in Belgium. The Dutch have detained sixteen German ships loaded with grain from Washington, Dec. 15. Altl London, Dec. 15.—It Is officially announced London, Dec. 15.—The Servians after Antwerp at the mouth of the Scheldt both Provisional President Guti by the: admiralty that the a fierce battle have re-occupied river. and General Carranza assured Dr. Victorino Marquez Bustillos has Turkish battleship, Messudiyeh, has Belgrade, according to a Nish dispatch of American government that their been chosen provisional president been torpedoed and sunk in the Dardanelles. to the Reuter Telegram company. Two British warships have entered es have been instructed to con the United States of Venezuela. At The Messudiyeh was attacked The Austrians occupied Eelgrade December the Straits of Magellan in pursuit of t.beir fire to Mexican territory, notl the time of his election he was minister and sunk by a British submarine. 2, having besieged it since the German cruiser Dresden. A Santiago official has been received to indie of war and navy, ar.d prior to his Di\ Dernburg, former German colonial July 29, bombarding from batteries report further declares the Dresden the receipt of such instructions cabinet service he was governor of the minister, who is in America lecturing This is the first serious blow to be near Zemlin and from monitors on the is now at Punta Orenas being repaired their respective commanders at Na federal district. for the purpose of justifying inflicted on the Turkish navy since Danube. A large portion of the city and will be forced to sail immediately Officials here are unable to undt the entrance of the porte into the war. Germany's position in the war, blames was said to have been destroyed by afterwards or be interned. ACCUSED GFCLAUBON MURDER stand the delay in the delivery of tl The Messudiyeh was sunk the England for the great conflict and asserts by the fire of the Austrians. message, copies of which have passe^ British submarine, B-ll. In accomplishing that German militarism is an London, Dec. 15.—The most striking The German armed merchant Manford through American telegraph lines invention of the enemy. the feat the submersible penetrated feature of the official news is the admission has been captured by British in Naco. In the meantime intermitten, the suppostdly impregnable by the Austrian government the Indian Ocean, while the German firing continues. WILL STUDY CAUSES OF Dardanelles. It dived under five GENTRY SMITH AND WIFE HELD of the defeat of the Austrian army in Donverted cruiser Cormorant has entered The general belief is that President rows of mines. After launching the Bervia and apparently of the abandonment the harbor of Guam in the Ladrone FOR INVESTIGATION. Wilson will wait at least another day, torpedo, which struck the Turkish warship, ot its third attempt to invade the archipelago. and then if the demands of the United the submarine escaped. territory of us small Slav neighbor. States are not complied with the While auributing the failure to the Austria Loses Two Warships. COLLEGE MEN TO ORGANIZE FORTS IT CIML SUFFICIENT thriai of the Washington government Ben Curtis, Alias L. Biackey, Whom enemy's superior force, as all government Two Austrian torpedoboats are reported to return with artillery fire any firing POLITY CLUBS. Police Suspect of Firing Fatal bulletins explain failures, the to have been sunk in the Adriatic, into American territory will be carried Shots, Is Missing. Austrian war office announces plainly according to a message received out. As yet, however, no further an extended retirement and heavy here from Trieste, by way of Rome. orders have been nt to BrigadierGenera] losses. Carnegie Endowment for International WARSHIPS NOT LIKELY TO BE The torpedoboats were en route to Minneapolis, Dec. 15.—Gentry Smith Tasker H. Wi«s. in charge ol To Take New Measures. Peace Announces Campaign to Lisha when they struck the mines, the SENT TO PANAMA. was charged with 'lie murder of Claus the situation at X.-ico, Ariz. "New decisions and measures consequently message states. The crews of both Clausen after being a prisoner at police Start This Week. Shots From Mexico Regarded Hostile will be taken to repel the vessels were lost. headquarters for more than 24 Administration officials attached no enemy," says the Austrian statement. The admiralty's olficial statement hours without being "booked" or formally importance to the statement of Carranza Federal Officials Wait for More Information New York, Dec. 14.—The Carnegie Apparently that means the Austrian announcing the sinking Of the Messudiyeh accused. Later Frances Smith, that if the Tinted States fired Endowment for International Peace From Colonel Goethals army directed against Servja will assume says: his wife, was "held for investigation." into 'Mexican territory it would he "an announces that it will begin a campaign Before Acting. a defensive line. "On Dec. 12 the submarine B-ll An order to appear before Judge Hale aci of hostility." Some officials point this week for the better understanding Against its repulse, Austria balances Lieutenant Commander Holbrook, com habeas corpus proceedings, to show ed out that the American government in of international relations by the occupation of Belgrade as an asset was inclined to regard shots from manding, despite the difficult current Washington. Dec. 15. Colonel cause why Mrs. Smith should not be sending bodies of college graduates to the good. Mexico into the United States in tin dived under five rows of mines and 3oethals' reiterated request for destroy released, wras served upon Captain Galvan, to the leading colleges of the country The Servians claim to he pressing same aspect. In view of the urgent torpedoed the Turkish battleship Messudiyeh, acting chief of police. rs for enforcing neutrality laws to organize international polity clubs. home-their victory with more captures Meanwhile Ben Curtis, alias L. tone ot the message from Provisional which was guarding the minefield. in Panama canal zone was the subject These clubs will study the fundamental of prisoners and to have drh'en part Blackev, whom the police suspect of President Gutierrez to General Maytorena Although pursued by gun fire •'inferences between Secretary Gar•i-nii. causes of the European war, of the invading army across the Drina firing the fatal shots, is missing, and officials believe the latter and torpedoboats, (he submarine returned Counsellor Landing, acting secretary with the view of determining what political river. Moreover, they express confidence would remove his troops to avoid complications. safely. The Messudiyeh was the police admit they don't know of the State Department, and reconstruction is necessary if a that they are about to retake where he is. The entire police force last seen sinking by the stern." Admiral Fiske, chief of the navy bureau repetition is to be averted, according the capital and expel the invaders A Carranza force of 1,200 under of operations. is searching for Curtis. Boldest Marine Exploit. to the announcement, made by Dr. from Servian territory. General Iturbe has taken La Paz. Stories circulated by the police that No decision was reached and it was The feat of Lieutenant Commander George Nasmyth of Harvard university. Hungarians Resist Russian Advance. Lower California, and that quiet prevails Smith had confessed to complicity in stated that owing to the delicacy of Holbrook in diving under five rows of Dr. Nasmyth was one of a group The progress of the war in northern the crime were denied by Smith there. the questions involved and the scant mines in the Dardanelles and torpedoing of Americans who last summer attended Hungary is less definite. Sunday's through his attorney, A. W. Cary, although Lnfr-rj.na.tion furnished by Colonel the Turkish battleship is described a school of international polity German wireless report, with candor the accused man admits he was Goethals, it might be several days before HOUSE RAZED BY EXPLOSION here as perhaps the boldest marine exploit in England. equal to that of the Austrian bulletin, at Clausen's residence at 1912 Tenth any action is taken. of the war. The submarine presumably "We are not a group of peace hustlers," spoke of the severe resistance which avenue south the night of the murder. Goethals Sends Cablegram. was not scratched. Seven Killed and Eight. Injured in said Dr Nasmyth. "We want to the German and Austrian arms are encountering Smith declared he was "doublecrossed" Secretary Garrison early in the day by It escaped gunfire and the pursuit Apartment Building Natural get the American student to make an in south Poland and in Galicia, by Curtis and that he thought received a cablegram from Colonel of torpedoboats in a manner truly remarkable Gas Biast. adding that it was evident that inquiry into the deep causes of war, their visit to Clausen's home was to Goethals in reply to his request for and it was necessary for its Austrian forces in the Carpathians are not the advantages of peace. We want complete a dsal for a restaurant. Mr. details concerning the call for destroyers. crew to endure the ordeal of remaining not numerically strong enough to clear to try to discover whether these causes Cleveland, Dec. 15.—A natural gas Cary says Curtis told Smith Jial Clausen under for nine hours on a stretch. are explosion in a tv o-story apartment the Russians out of Hungarian territory. inevitable or preventable and to was to have advanced the money The message was not made public The loss of life on the Messudiyeh make the inquiry in a scientific manner." house at 1(118 .Madison avenue killed for this deal to Curtis. an account of its confidential nature, is not estimated in the brief announcement But the Austrians claim that they seven persons, seriously injured eight Smith's version of the affair was Mr. Garrison said in Col. Goethals' but of the episode given out by the and wrecked the two-storv building. are driving down the northern slopes Besides the American experts, the that Curtis intended to rob Clausen, judgment misuse of wireless communication British admiralty, but if the Messudiyeh of the Carpathians the Russian invaders Carnegie Endowment has invited English Windows for a block around were knowing the former candidate for alderman within the Zone waters and the was manned as other Turkish who were last week in occupation and German experts to make a broken- end persons in a drug store of the Fifth ward carried necessity of preventing the misuse of ships have been, then there were several of several towns south of that mountain across the street were knocked flown tour of the clubs at the universities large sums of money at times. Mr. the Zone as a base of supply by belligerents German officers on board. and injured by bre'ven glass. range. in this country. Cary declares Smith was an innocent required the presence of The exact cause, of the explosion lui* Much Sufferfng in Poland. Messudiyeh an Old Warship. party to the plan and that when Curtis moving vessels. 5v,*ift Poland is fast becoming another Belgium not been ascertained. and Clausen started the struggle KAISER MAY GO UNDER KNIFE The Messudiyeh was an old battleship. Before any step is determined upon, in point of suffering, while the A strong odor of escaping gas had that ended in Clausen's death, Smith It was built in 1874 and recon it is understood officials of the administration opposing armies drive each other back been noticed in the vicinity. A photograph became frightened ^nd van. He went structed in Genoa in 1903. Its dis will go deeply into the question German Emperor to Undergo Opera­ and forth, occupy and reoccupv cities studio occupied the first floor of direct to his home at. 1125 First avenue placement was about 10,000 tons. II of the powers of the government, the apartment and it is supposed the and villages, and inflict upon the inhabitants tion of the Throat, Says Berlin north and remained there. had a speed of 17.5 knots. The ves in controlling affairs in waters adjacent bombardments similar to escaping gas became ignited there Dispatch. When detectives failed to find sel's normal complement was 600 offi to the Canal Zone. those suffered in Belgium and northern The explosion blew our the walls of Smith on Saturday night it was because cers and men. Believe Fortifications Sufficient. France. the building and the wreckage at once they did not know where he Amsterdam, via London, Dec. 14.— The Messudiyeh carried 2 9-incl At present the officials appear to More than 500 Polish towns have caught fire. Firemen drags the lived. They were within a block of Emperor William has made so much guns in turrets, 12 6-inch, 14 3-inch, 1( believe the governor of the Panama been ruined, according to various accounts dead t.nd dying from the blazing mass the place twice, but did not know it. progress toward recovering his health, 6-pounders and 2 3-pounders. Its ar canal already has at his command from the correspondents. Each at the risk of their lives. Most of the Smith was at home when Detectives telegrams received here from Berlin mor consisted of a complete belt 11 ample power to enforce the neutrality irmy accuses the other of looting and injured were horribly mangled, having Brunskill and Crummy arrived and he state, that he will be able to leave the inches amidships and 7 inches at th laws and all of the regulations for cruelty. The flight of the civilians I had arms or legs broken off. Several accompanied them to police headquarters capital this week for the battle front. ends. the use of the canal. The fortifications from Lodz was one of the most tragic of the dead were children who lived without protest. Geneve, Switzerland, Dec. 14.—A report In the war with Greece in 1912, tin at the terminals are sufficiently advanced episodes of the war, while one correipondent in the apartment above the photograph Police reccrds shew that Smith and reached Basel from Berlin that Messudiyeh was reported badly dam to give military command to pictures the fate of Kalisz as studio. his wife were thrown into jail cells Emperor William will be obliged to aged in a naval battle in the Darda all of the waters within the three-mile repetition of Louvaine, with the a Owing to the cold wave here the without being told what were the undergo an operation of the throat nelles. limit and beyond that point the United slaughter of 400 civilians and the sacking gas pressure was high. It was believed charges against them, and even without when he has Sufficiently recovered States government can exercise no of the city. a great amount escaped before the formality of a police booking. from his present illness which is not control. There is an ample military WANTS WARSHIPS FOR CANAL the fumes lound their way to the They were arrested at 4 p. m. Suaday considered serious. force in barracks in the Zone to maintain Scandinavian Rulers to Confer. photographic darkroom and caused afternoon and it wis 5:30 p. yesterday The doctors, however, consider it order and to deal with any vessel Cppenhagen, via London, Dec. 15.— Goethals Requests That Two Vessel! the blast. before their names appeared on inadvisable for him to return to the after it has passefl through the entrance be Sent to Panama Waters at Once. By invitation of King Gustav of Sweden, the jail records. front for several weeks and he probably locks of the canal. King Haakon of Norway and King by Fugitive Overcome Cold. will spend Christmas at home. Washington, Dec. 15.—Colonel Geo Frederick of Denmark will visit Malmo, Council Bluffs, Dec. 15.—Somewhere Crown- Prince Frederick William, Railroad Man Honored by Canadians. One in Every 35 Enlist. W. Goethals, governor of the Panamj southern Sweden. The three kings about thirty miles north of Council St. Johns, N. F„ Dec. 15.—From this, the renort from the capital "says, has Winnipeg, Man., Dec. 15.—The West, canal zone, has reiterated his reques accompanied by their ministers will be Bluffs Albert C. Hanson was roaming city, with a population of 30,000, about arrived in Berlin. represented by its most prominent that two torpedoboat destroyers b( of foreign" affairs and secretaries and with the temperature below zero, no 1,250 men have eirlisted for service in business men, did honor at a banquet sent to canal zone waters to preven' will discuss affairs of common interest overcoat and no friends, a fugitive the British navy, 1,000 as and to George Bury, who goes to Montreal army violation of neutrality through the mis Boer War Hero Dies. which have arisen as a result of from justice. He jumped from a moving soldiers and 250 as sailors. This is an at the end of the month to become use of wireless and the taking on the war and especially measures for Capetown, IJnion of South Africa, Great Western train between Minden average of one in every twenty-five of vice president of the C. P. R. Premiers supplies by belligerent vessels. helping the economical situation in Dec. 14, (via London).—The death was and Tennant, while being taken the population, an average that, so far of three provinces, Alberta, Saskatchewan Because of the confidential nature c! Scandinavia. announced yesterday of Major Genera] back from California for breaking his as is known here, has been exceeded and Manitoba, paid tribute Colonel Goethals' dispatch, Secretary Sir Edwprd Yevvd Brabant, who gained parole. After two hours of exposure only at Liverpool, where one person Lo his work. Mr. Bury, in his address, Garrison declined to make it publicHe fame as the commander of a division Will Recover From Railroad Injury. to the severe elements Hanson wag in everv fifteen itas enlisted. made the official announcement of the issued this statement: Owantonna, Minn., Dec. 15.—Miss of colon ia's. known as Brabant's glad to give himself up. appointment of Grant Hall as his successor. "The substance of the dispatch Clara Huseth, injured in the Rock hor«Q ir the oBer war. He was born that in Colonel-Goehtals' judgment th* Bavarian Troops Reported Mutinous. [slaird wreck near Faribault, will recover. In 1839. German Chancellor's Son Taken. misuse of radiocomsrmnications withir Amsterdam, via London, Dec. 15.—A Miss Huseth is a teacher in Paris, Dec. 15.—Reports reaching iispatch to the Handelblad from Antwerp canal waters and the prevention of tht Capture German Merchantman. the state public school. Other Owatonna Fire Lei at Skagway. here from Berne state that a son says reports are current in Antwerp Tokio, Dec. 15.—It is reported here misuse of these waters as a base oi people in the wreck were G. F. Slm*vay, ia?k." Dec. 14.—Fire the German Chancellor, Doctor Von supplies require the presence of swifi of a mutiny on the part of the :hat the German armed merchant Manford eon- r!ef r'ir- v. Cardiff, proprietor of the Neal and the Moors wharf, Bethmann-Hollweg, has been injured I. moving ships of the variety mentioned Bavarian troops garrisoning thee ity. has been captured by the British tOSTP'hCT* W )1 '1 f'v Gatlin Institutes in the Twin Cities warehouse build- seriously at Piotrkow, Russian Poland He concluded with an appeal to thh While the story is not confirmed in the Indian ocean and that the German it is Leslie Jefferson, lecturer, and Vernum in rs e* fpt ore bunkers and and that he had been captured by the fact that the Bavarian barracks have converted cru'^r Cormorant has government to refrain from any hos Backus, salesman. None was seriously chutes. The loss is estimated at $210,- Russians. entered the harbor of Guam in the La- tile act. been closed to outsiders. Injured. 000. Order Body Delivered Across Border. Increased Pasenger Fares. Mormon Church Has New Head. Aviators Bombard German Town. Dutch Detain German Grain. Washington, Dec. 15.—General Hill Independence, Mo., Dec. 15.—Frederick Washington, Dec. 15.—-Increased passenger London, Dec. 15.—The Daily Chronicle's Plan Attack on Britain. of the Carranza forces has issued orders M. Smith, first counsellor, has Berlin, Dec. 15.—The Zeitung anl fares between St. Louis, Mo. Amsterdam correspondent says London, Dec. 14.—A correspondent to his commanding officers at Mittag publish a dispatch saying that Chicago, 111., and other similarly lo ,j been sustained as temporary president sixteen vessels containing grain, which of the Turin Stampa who Nogales, Naeozarco aird Agua Prieta of the reorganized Church of Jesus a-ostile aviators flew over the city cated cities and points in the eastern the Germans sent from Antwerp, have claims to have had access to the to deliver at. Douglas, Ariz., the remains Kreiburg. in .the G^and Duchy of Balen, territory each of the Buffalo-Pittsburgh Christ of Latter Day Saints and wall been detained by the Dutch at Hanswet, Zeppelin sheds at Friedrichshav of Charles Jones, formerly of throwing bombs from their machines. assume the work of his father, Joseph line have become effective. By terms I Holland, at the mouth of the en says that eighteen. isuper-Zeopelins Minneapolis, who died across the Mexican One bomb nit a house and did Smith, president, whs died last week. of the tariffs filed by the railroads River Scheldt. an wiii take part in attack border some time ago. This information considerable damage. The others fell wth the Interstate Commerce Commission the on Britain and its fleet in was given at the State Department Columbia park among a crowd of all round trip- tickets sold at German General Dies. Two Generals Killed in Battle. spring. where the authorities have been proinenaders -oi two girls were Injured. 'Berlin, Dec. 15.—Via London.—Lieutenant reduced rates between points iir classification Berlin, Dec. 15, via London.—-The The correspondent says that endeavoring to make such arrangements Freiburg, ii? Baden, just east General von Streck, former inspector territorj' and Central Passenger newspapers announce the death on the every three weeks aft airship lor the past three or tour days. if the Rhine sad few mile* nor'b general of ordnance at Munich. Association territory will be withdrawn battlefield of General von Briesen, leaves the works for a secret destination. General Villa made similar orders the S--' 'frontier, hat been' visited has died from wounds received and only straight fare tickets commander of an infantry division, a wetsk ago. jefore by tio»Ui? air+aea. vhile fighting in the west eoid. And Major General von Martin A.