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VOLUME XXXVI.
No. 73.
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SISAL TRUST
URGENT PLEA
TURKS FLED
DIDN'T MEAN
JEWISH RELIEF.
AERO PROBE ORDERED.
PROBED INTO
FOR RELIEF
FROM SLAVS
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REFUGEES FACING
MOSLEMS WITHDREW
WEXLER ON STAND
LONG CONTROVERSY
RUSSIANS REPULSE
HUNGER, HE SAYS
AT SESSION TODAY
BEFORE ONSLAUGHT
APPEARS CERTAIN
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AUSTRIAN ATTACKS
YUAN SCOFFS
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AT REBELLION
Merchant Ships.
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Chinese Dictator Makes
Light of Uprising.
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Admiral
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outlining the policies of reform which
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STEAMER UPON REEF.
FRENCH WAR REPORT.
Senators
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TROOPS TO WEST
PROCEEDINGS HALTED.
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UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY
Depositary of the State of Texas
Charges and Counter
Charges Heard.
Newellton Mayor Asks For
Food.
Probable German Reply
to U. S. Query.
First Detailed Story of
Erzerum Battles.
steps are being taken to create a strong
and dependable militia.
proceeding under the prize laws, to
gain possession of the ship.
The state department holds that
Heroic Work Prevents Blaze
From Spreading at Bristol,
Tennessee, Concern.
China Making Every Effort
Maintain Position of
Strict Neutrality.
are being prosecuted.
The new Pullman service via Piedras
Negras to New Orleans commenced yes-
terday, the train'also carrying a dining
car.
The government is preparing to make
Turkish Reinforcements En
Route Were Too Far Away
to Aid Fortress.
FIRE THREATENS
MUNITION PLANT
Warship Will Be Stationed at
Galveston For Use of Naval
Militia.
Offensive Attempt on Dniester
Fails—Troop Movements
in Belgium.
Federal and Local Officials at
Natchez Do Not Share Ap-
prehension.
Harvester Company and Chica-
go Bank Deny Accusations
Against Them.
Long Trains of Artillery and
Infantry Are Seen Upon
Railroads.
Try to Regain Ship in Admiralty
Court Through Prize
Laws.
CITY COUNSEL
BELIEVES ONE
DRINK PLENTY
X._~ \ Grande valley;
Sunday fair.
For West Texas: Tonight and Sun-
day faih.
For Oklahoma: Tonight and Sun-
day fair.
Winds on Texas Coast: Light var-
iable. ,
conferred today with Maj.-Gen. Scott,
the army chief of staff, in regard to
Mississippi river flood conditions. They
were told that everything possible was
being done and that Capt. William E.
Hunt, of the quartermaster’s depart-
ment, stationed at St. Louis, had been
ordered to the flooded territory to take
charge of the relief work.
BLACKHAND BUSY;
BOMB BLOWS UP
ITALIAN’S HOME.
Illness of Judge Meek Delays T. and P.
Hearings at Dallas.
By Associated Press.
TMSTRONG
FoR HOLIES
ELEGANTLY DRESSED
HUSBAND PROVED TO
be ONLY A BEGGAR.
Dollar Days.
The FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF GALVESTON
may be in preparation on the western
front are furnished by advices from
The reference in the foregoing to
Ekved Pevzi Pasha as the commander
in charge of Erzerum before its sur-
render apparently disposes of unoffi-
cial reports of several weeks ago that
the Turkish army there was in charge
of the German field marshal. Von der
Goltz, or his compatriot, Field Marshal
Liman von Sanders.
company had sought by intimidation reach the upper Yangtse Kiang. Vice
to prevent the National City bank of ■ - ■ - — ■ m:— --- ---ed—tin
planters.
The banks, it is said, agreed to fur-
nish the commission created by the
Yucatan government to manage the
combine $10,009,000 a year at 4% to 6
per cent for six years, if necessary,
and received a bonus of between $400,-'
000 and $500,000 for the accommoda-
tion.
The planters, however, found such a
demand for their crop this year that
.they borrowed only $1,000,000 and were
able to pay the loan promptly.
The senate agriculture committee to-
day decided to call upon the Continen-
tal and Commercial National bank of
Chicago to submit a statement show-
ing the deposits of the International
Harvester company for the last three
months in order to determine the truth
of charges that the Harvester company
had disciplined the Chicago bank for
extending financial aid to sisal grow-
ers in Yucatan.
somewhat
in Galicia
Petrograd
Mayor of Chicago, counsel
140 charter members and uses
Camp Mabry target range.
The Comrie Castle was last reported
at Marseilles on Jan. 19. She is a 5,173-
ton vessel, owned in London, and was
By Associated Press.
Chicago, Feb. 19.—One drink of
whisky beer or wine is held by
Samuel A. Ettelson, city corpora-
tion counsel, to be a “reasonable
amount,” and Chief of Police Hea-
ley is expected to issue an order
today to restaurants where liquor
is sold limiting, patrons to “one
ordinary drink” after 1 a. m., the
hours at which barrooms are re-
quired to close.
In order to be within the law,
the corporation counsel holds that
the drink must be ordered before
1 o’clock, but may be consumed
after that hour.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Feb. 19.—An army
investigation of Senator Robin-
son’s charges that Lieutenant-
Colonel Reber, head of the avia-
tion service, had been conducting
the aero corps in an inefficient
manner, has been ordered by the
war department. A board, which
includes the inspector general
and the adjutant general of the
army .and the head of the war
college, will conduct the inquiry.
Membership.
By Associated Press.
Austin, Feb. 19.—The Austin Rifle
club has received a certificate of mem-
bership in the National Rifle associa-
tion of America. The Austin club has
great German troop movements have
occurred in South and Central Belgium,
says a dispatch from the frontier.
Long trains with artillery and infan-
try 'were running along the railroads
to the west and south and some detach-
ments were transported by way of
Louvain, Wavern and Gembloux to the
southeast.
Louvain, the dispatch adds, still is a
strong point of support of German
strategy and many conferences of high
i military officers are held there.
The first chief made a brief speech , New York as well as the Continental,
ining the policies of reform which from loaning money to aid sisal grow-
in charge of rescue work in the flooded
section, returned here today from avisit ’ the Belgian frontier, received in Am-
e
Organizatilon Receives Certificate
For Settlement of American Brass
Company Strike.
By Associated Press.
Ansoria, Conn., Feb. 19.—Prospects
were considered bright today for an
amicable adjustment of the strike of
2,500 employes of the American Brass
company. A committee will present to
company officials the. strikers’ demands
for wage increase, and improved work-
ing conditions.
Thousands From Germany Held Up by
Storm.
By Associated Press.
Amsterdam, Feb. 18.—Via London,
Feb. 19.—Thousands of telegrams from
Germany have been delayed 24 to 48
hours on account of damage to land
wires by the storm in Northern Hol-
land. Many of these telegrams have
reached Amsterdam by mail and are
now being distributed
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the national guard a definite part of ■ ness stand. Mr. Wexler was to ex-
the army. This branch of the service i plain the organization of bankers
which is furnishing funds for the
for the
i
Sweden Warns Nationals to
Keep Off Armed Belligerent
were temporarily halted for the second
time today on account of the illness
of Federal Judge E. R. Meek, who is
suffering from the grippe. He was not
able to appear in court and the trial
was adjourned to Monday.
BULLETIN.
By Associated Press.
Loudon, Feb. 19.—The complete
conquest of the Kamerun, the
. German colony in equatorial Af-
rica, was officially announced this
afternoon.
der the Prussian-American treaty the
liner belongs to Germany as a prize, at
least until a prize court passed on the
legality of her capture.
The Rritish emhassv has contended
the ship should be returned to her
owners under a provision of The Hague
convention.
reports an Austrian offensive on the
Dniester, near Uscieczko, an attack
being launched after intensive artil-
lery preparation. The assault was re-
pulsed, it is declared.
Indications that some important
military movement by the Germans
Pan-American corporation, who made
the original charges that the har-
vester company had attempted to in-
fluence the banks, read the message.
Similar denials were made in a mes-
sage from the harvester company,
read by its counsel, Walter. L. Fisher.
Wexler charged that the harvester
Passengers of the Comrie Castle Have
Been Landed.
By Associated Press.
London, Feb. 19.—The British steam-
ship Comrie Castle is ashore on a reef
off Mombassa, British East Africa.
Tier passengers have been landed.
Austrian Troops Are Within Eight
Miles of Kavaya.
By Associated Press.
Berlin, Feb. 19 (by wireless to Say-
ville).—The capture of Kavaya, Al-
bania, eight miles southwest of Du-
razzo, capital of Albania, by Austro-
Hungarian troops, assisted by Alban-
ians, is announced in the official re-
port of the Austro-Hungarian head-
quarters received here.
ers.
Inquiry into the American selling
agency of the Yucatan sisal growers’
combine was continued today by the
senate agricultural committee, with
Sol Wexler of New York on the wit-
First Chief Is Given Euthusastic Wel-
come—Makes Speech.
Special to The Tribune.
Mexico City, Feb. 19., via Vera Cruz.
—The first chief and his party left
Guadalajara yesterday for Colima, stop-
ping at Sayula where they were re-
ceived by the inhabitants with great
demonstrations of loyalty to the Con-
stiutionalist government and its lead-
to Newellton. He also asserted that
the flood victims around there were
not in distress at present, but they
would suffer greatly from lack of food
unless relief was forthcoming within
a short time.
He said a strong current was sweep-
ing through the town making relief
work difficult. The levees are crowded
with refugees and livestock, which are
being removed as rapidly as possi-
ble.
The steamer Uncle Oliver arrived here
today with a load of refugees and plan-
tation animals and returned to the
scene immediately.
More than one-third of St. Joseph is
under water and the flood was enter-
ing Waterproof.
A further statement of flood condi-
tions around Newellton was received to-
day by the Natchez relief committee
from Mayor Jacoby. It said: '
“Our supplies have given out and un-
less we receive food we will soon face
starvation. Between here and Tensas,
a distance of 15 miles, there are a thou-
sand or more people marooned whose
condition we do not know as we have
been unable to reach them on account
of the lack of boats. Our urgent need
is food, boats and tents. Refugees on
levees number about 2000. These need
food and shelter which we are unable
to provide.”
Road House Near Dallas is Visited by
Gang.
By Associated Press.
Dallas, Tex., Feb. 19.—Dallas coun- •
ty officers today are making an effort
to arrest more than a dozen “night rid-
ers” who last night raided a suburban
resort on the Richardson Road, shoot-
ing out lights and putting to flight
everybody in the place.
A negro, Noah Martin, suffered a
flesh wound. Martin said he was there
to visit one of the. negro attendants.
Euclid Spellman and Ira Crosby, who
live in the neighborhood of the re-
sort raided, were arrested today and
placed under bonds on charges of as-
sault with intent to murder.
It was said last night the raiders
declare their intention of “Closing up”
the place. Recently a fight took place
there in which O. T. Smith was dan-
gerously slashed with a knife. As a
result of this affray Dr. J. B. Norris,
a Dallas physician yesterday pleaded
guilty and was fined $50.
By Associated Press.
Natchez, Miss., Feb. 19.—Federal and
local officials engaged in flood and
rescue work in the overflowed section
of Louisiana, stated today that they
did not share the apprehension express-
ed by the Newellton, La., authorities to
the 3000 or more negroes marooned in
and near that town were facing star
vation. Mayor Jacoby of Newellton
late yesterday sent an urgent appeal
to the relief committee for help stat-,
ing the marooned people were in dire
need of food and that the rescuers
must have power boats to remove flood
victims from plantations and to carry
food to others.
C. R. Byrnes, chairman of the Natchez
relief committee, said investigation had
revealed there were about 3000 negroes
marooned near Newellton and on the
levee, but he did not believe they were
in immediate danger of starving.
Capt. Hetrick, United States engineer
By Associated Press.
Washington, Feb. 19.—Attorneys for
the British owners of the liner Appam
in Hampton Roads as a prize of a Ger-
man crew, have brought an admiralty
Ranchman Is Held in Connection With
Tenant’s Death. '
By Associated Press.
Anson, Tex., Feb. 19.—Will Norwood,
a ranchman of this county, today was
released on $7500 bond under a charge
of killing L. H. Becker, a tenant on his
place. Becker was shot to death at
his home Thursday.
By Associated Press.
Austin, Feb. 19.—The United States
navy department today advised Adjt,
Gen. Henry Hutchings that the United
States destroyer Reid will arrive at
Galveston about the latter part of
April for naval militia duty.
The Reid, a vessel of 700 tons, wa's
laid down in 1908. She is capable of
making 31.8 knots, and develops 12,42 h
horsepower. The Reid cost $624,000.
Her armament consists of three 18-
inch torpedo tubes, and five 3-inch
rapid-firing guns.
There appears to be
greater military activity
than for some days past.
and Pacific receivership suit
Read About It In the Tribune Monday.
GALVESTON TRIBUNE.
By Associated Press.
New York, Feb. 19.—Nearly
$2,900,000 has been sent from the
United States for the relief of
Jewish war sufferers in Russia,
Austria-Hungary, Poland, Pales-
tine and other war zones, it was
announced today by the joint
distribution committee of the
Jewish relief fund. Of this
amount $1,285,000 has gone to
Russia, $860,000 to Poland and
Lithuania, $610,000 to Austria-
Hungary and $142,000 to Pales-
tine.
A bomb
GALVESTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1916.—TWELVE PAGES
By Associated Press.
Peking, Feb. 19.—In an exclusive in-
terview with the correspondent of the
Associated Press at the palace today,
President Yuan Shi Kai minimized the
importance of the rebellion now in
progress and expressed confidence of
the ability of the government to sup-
press the uprising when adequate troops
By Associated Press.
Washington, Feb 19.—The senate
committee on, agriculture, whicch is
investigating charges that the har-
vester company and the Plymouth
Cordage company combined to monop-
olize the sisal output and prevent in-
dependent twine dealers from obtain-
ing raw material, and counter-charges
that the Pan-American commission
corporation, of which Sol Wexler, a
New York banker, was the head,
financed a sisal monopoly with the
idea of putting up the price to Amer-
ican merchants, today heard denials
made by the harvester company and
the Continental and Commercial bank
of Chicago of accusations directed
against them. The committee has been
told that the Pan-American corpora-
tion was not formed until the plant-
ers had been unable to make loans
from independent bankers, who re-
fused because of alleged threats from
the harvester and Plymouth compa-
nies.
A telegram was read into the record
from the Continental and Commercial
bank, denying that the harvester com-
German Attack in the Artois District
Beaten Off.
Paris, Feb. 19, via London.—The re-
port issued by the war office today
reads:
“In the Artois district the Germans
yesterday evening at a point north of
Blangy delivered an unimportant at-
tack, which was repulsed.”
By Associated Press.
Bristol, Tenn.-Va.„ Feb. 19.—The ex-
plosion of a lantern early today at the
plant of the Federal Dyestuff and
Chemical company near Kingsport,
Tenn., set fire, to a chemical tank and
threatened several buildings with de-
struction. Heroic work on the part of
the company employes prevented the
flames from spreading and only one
of the buildings was damaged, accord-
ing to a telephone message from Frank
P. Summers, superintendent of the
plant.
First reports received here that the
entire plant, which is valued at sev-
eral millions, had been destroyed. The
company, which manufactures picric
acid, a base for high explosives, is a
Delaware corporation headed by A. B.
Dupont. No estimate of the damage
has yet been made, but it was not suf-
ficient, it is said, to interfere with the
work of the plant.
Feb. 19.
formerly only existed in name, but
Blaze Starts From Tallow
Cargo—Believed to Be
, Incendiary.
Hbuse: Resumed consideration
postoffice appropriaiton bill.
Felt at New Orleans Regarding Fate of
Refugees.
By Associated Press.
New Orleans, Feb. 19.—Increased ap-
prehension was felt today for the 2000
or more persons marooned in the inun-
dated territory west of Newellton, with-
out food and with but scant shelter.
Most of the sufferers are negro popu-
lation laborers who were unable to
reach places of safety when the wa-
ters started flowing through the break
in the Mississippi river levee at the
Buckridge plantation.
Reports received here stated the
Buckridge crevasse had reached a width
of nearly 700 feet, with a depth of at
least fifteen feet. The water, it is
said, was flowing through the break
at the rate of four miles an hour. A
quarter semicircle with a radius of 25
miles from the river is flooded from
six to fifteen feet, while beyond this
another 25 miles is covered with wa-
ter ranging from a depth of a few
inches to one and two feet, according
to the information received here.
The flood will not reach its climax
for at least a week, predicted author-
ities who were working in the inun-
dated sections.
Concordia parish, in Northwest Lou-
isiana, is covened with a thin sheet of
water, with the exception of a small
area across the river from Natchez.
Flood waters from the Buckridge
crevasse and backwater from the Red,
Black and Old rivers, together with
water from the broken levees of the
Arkansas river have dotted northeast
Louisiana with several large lakes,
having numerous lagoons reaching out
from them. These lakes and lagoons
were reported gradually drawing closer
to each other and the belief prevails
they would eventually converge into
one lake, covering the parishes of
Tensas, Concordia, Franklin, and Cat-
ahoula, except in a few high spots.
This lake in its extremes would be ap-
proximately 85 miles long and fifty
miles wide.
Below Melville, La., the crevasse in
the Atchafalaya river was reported
having reached a width of 3100 feet
Assistant State Engineer Lombard es-
timated that it would continue to widen
until it had reached a mile and a half.
Back levees still protected Melville
from the back flow.
By Associated Press.
Amsterdam, Holland, Feb. 19.—Via
London.—-During the last six days
By Associated Press.
, Chicago, Feb. 19.—Because she
objected to her husband’s calling,
Mrs. Mary Mack Powley has been
granted a divorce. Mrs. Powley
told the court that her husband,
Clyde Thackeray Powley, was
“swell dresser.”
He told her, she said, he
worked for himself at the stock
yards and she concluded he was
a livestock broker. Less than a
month after her marriage in 1913,
she went to visit a friend on the
South Side.
“There I saw him,” she told the
court yesterday, “standing on a
corner with his hat in his hand.
He was a professional beggar.”
United States that the Teutonic powers
modify their announced intention to
sink without warning all armed mer-
chant ships of the enemy after Feb. 29,
will be a statement that assurances
given in the Lusitania and Arabic
cases had to do only with unarmed ves-
sels, that Germany must feel certain
that submarines which warn a mer-
chant ship would not be attacked and
that this country will be asked for its
definition of defensive armament.
It was considered certain that the
problem of defining defensive arma-
ment will be the basis of lengthy ne-
gotiations.
All American diplomatic and consu-
lar officials abroad have been notified
in a circular communicated from the
state department that the position of
the United States is that merchant
ships have a right to carry defensive
armament.
This move is the first formal an-
nouncement that the United States does
not accept as legal the announced in-
tention of Germany and Austria to
sink armed merchant ships without
warning after Feb. 29, as coming with-
in international law.
Sweden has informally advised the
department of state that in conse-
quence of the announced intention of
Germany and Austria to sink armed
merchantmen without warning after
Feb. 29, it will notify its nationals not
to travel on such ships.
It was explained at the legation of
Sweden here that there would be no
general warning, but that all Swedish
consuls and legations throughout the
world have been instructed to warn
their subjects whenever it was known
that they contemplated taking passage
on armed ships of the allies.
Everything Possible Is Being Done,
Says Gen. Scott.
By Associated Press.
bankrupt private banker, in Grand
boulevard, a fashionable residence
district, early today, shoking
houses for a distance of several
blocks and causing $5000 dam-
age.
Neither Mastrogiovanni nor his
wife, who were asleep on the
second floor, was injured by the
explosion. Mastrogiovanni said
he had received threatening let-
ters signed “Blackhand,” but be-
lieved the explosion was the work
of, an enraged depositor whose
money was lost when the bank
failed.
By Associated Press.
Genoa, Feb. 19, via Paris.—Fire,
which broke out early today in a
cargo of tallow piled on a dock, is
spreading. It is suspected that the
fire was of incendiary origin. Two
arrests have been made.
FORECAST.
For Galves-
ton and vicin-
i t y: Tonight
and Sunday
fair; light var-
iable winds.
For East
Texas: Tonight
fair, warmer in
extreme north-
west portion,
frost in south
portion nearly
to coast except
in lower Rio
By Associated Press.
.Chicago, Feb. 19.
partly wrecked the
Conservation Champions Begin Fight to
Amend Bill.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Feb. 19.—Senate: Agri-
cultural committee continued hearing
on resoluption to . direct inquiry into
control of sisal output.
Conservation champions began fight
to amend Shields water power bill.
Haitien treaty laid before the senate
to be called up next week.
sterdam. Heavy troop movements
have been in progress in South and
Central Belgium, says the dispatch,
long trains carrying artillery and in-
fantry being dispatched along the rail-
roads to the west and south.
The recent comparative quiet on the
Franco-Belgian front has not been se-
riously disturbed so far as current
: statements reveal. The only infantry
movement reported in today's French
war office bulletin is what is charac-
terized as an unimportant attack by
the Germans, which was easily re-
pulsed.
While no news has been received of
organized resistance by the Turks
iu the vicinity of Erzerum since that
Turkish stronghold in Armenia was
taken by the Russians, Petrograd ad-
vices indicate that it was thought pos-
sible the Turks would make a stand
on the western edge of Erzerum val-
ley, eleven miles from the city. The
latest Petrograd official statement re-
ported the Turks fleeing in disorder.
Details from the Russian side indi-
cate that there were no large captures
of men when the fortress fell. The
bulk of the Turkish troops apparently
were well on the retreat westward at
the time the inner forts were taken,
only the rear-guard taking part in
the last days of fighting.
Reinforcements which the Turks
were sending to Erzerum are reported
to have been five or six days’ march
distant when the city was surrendered.
Meanwhile the Russians are active
along the Black sea coast to the north,
a Sebastopol dispatch reporting the
bombardment of Vitzesu, fifteen miles
east of Trebizond. A Russian advance
landward in the direction of Trebi-
zond, on the coast northwest of Erze-
rum, has been officially reported.
secretary of Yuan Shi Kai, acted as in-
terpreter.
“There is no campaign, but only a
skirmish,” said Yuan Shi Kai, “but
it gives me .so much work that it in-
creases my appetite.”
IN GOOD HEALTH.
The president replied laughingly to
a remark regarding his excellent phy-
sical condition and good spirits, refut-
ing rumors of his ill health. Discuss-
ing his enthronement, he said:
“Although a date in February was
sanctioned, the enthronement could
not take place because of the Yunnan
rebellion, which necessitated military
operations. Therefore it was decided,
with saddened hearts, to postpone it.”
The president Said the drafting of a
new constiution would be begun in a
few days. When it is finished the con-
stitution will go before a national con-
vention for suggestions. He did not pre-
dict the date of promulgation of the
constitution. Discussing its nature, he
said:
“We shall adopt from all countries
the provisions best suited to China,
without leaning toward any foreign
constitution.”
Yuan Shi Kai had this to say re-
garding probable recognition of the
monarchy:
“I can not tell what governments
will or will not delay. Each will rec-
ognize the monarch according to cir-
cumstances.”
STRICT NEUTRALITY.
Regarding China’s position as af-
fected by the war, the president said:
“China has made every effort to
maintain strict neturality. The Chinese
government is not aware that the en-
tente powers or the other belligerents
have made any substantial charges
against us for not having done so. China
will endeavor to remain on friendly
terms with all the treaty powers.”
Yuan Shi Kai then reverted to the
insurrection.
“Yunnan and Kwei-Chow have few
troops and little ammunition,” he said.
“How soon the rebellion will be
crushed depends upon the roads and
the rapidity of communication. You
must remember that it was easy for
the rebels to make a short dash into
Sze-Chuen, whereas the government
troops must make a difficult trip to
reach the rebels. Well supplied troops
will speedily suppress the rebels on
reaching the scene.
“A few ambitious leaders, without
popular support, are engineering the
rebellion. The voting showed that
the public favors a monarchy.”
Modestino Mastrogiovanni,
By Associated Press.
Washington, Feb. 19.—Indications in
official quarters today were that Ger-
many’s reply to the request of the
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Petrograd, Feb. 19.—The first de-
tailed story of the capture of Erzerum
by the Russians reached Petrograd
semiofficially today.
It shows complete cooperation Sof
Russian troops over a wide area, which
made useless resistance on the part
of the Turks. Apparently the Turks
realized the fall was inevitable and
withdrew most of their forces before
the final onslaught, leaving the garri-
sons of the' widely separated forts to
their fate.
The campaign began to reach its
climax in the last days of January.
The troops of Gen. P----- from the
north and those of Gen. K----- from
the east moved against the first forts
under the most severe weather con-
ditions. The Russians dragged their
artillery to the heights surrounding
the fortresses and when all was ready,
began to bombard Forts Kara Gudek,
20 miles, and Fort Dalian Gez, 15 miles,
northeast of Erzerum, preparatory to
the bayonet assault.
BREACH IN LINE.
On Jan. 20 both forts capitulated.
The taking of Dalan Gez made a
breach in the outer line defenses along
the Beve Boinu range in front of the
city. The capture of Kara Gudek
opened a direct passage through the
Karabagas pass to the city proper from
the northeast.
Fort Tafta lies midway between
these two fortresses. In a night attack
on Jan. 30 this fort was captured, leav-
ing only Chaban Bebe between the two
armies operating from this quarter.
On Feb. 2 the Russians began to
storm the whole front line on the Beve
Boinu heights. By evening all these
positions were in Russian hands, hav-
ing complete junction of the troops on
the northeast. The fall of this first
line quickly decided the fate of the
inner forts.
Meanwhile, the Palan Tekel group of
forts, seven miles to the south, had
been surrounded on three sides. The
general assault on the second line be-
gan without giving the men time to
rest. The five inner forts made only
a feeble resistance. Their garrisons
beat a hasty retreat into the city and
followed the bulk of the troops which
already were on the roads leading
westward. Only the rear guard took
part in the fighting of the last day.
Signs that the evacuation was under
way were observed immediately after
the fall of the first fort.
MAY ATTEMPT STAND.
It is thought possible the Turks will
attempt a stand at the first favorable
point, which is in the hills on the
western edge of Erzerum valley, 11
miles distant, but it is not regarded
probable that they have been able to
erect any extensive fortifications there.
The Russian are hastily repairing
the small damages done to the
fortresses against a possible attempt
of the Turks to retake them.
No news has been received of the
fate of Ekved Pevzi Pasha, commander
of the ninth corps, ■who was in charge
of the defense of Erzerum.
It is reported that reinforcements
from Thrace were on the way to
Erzerum, but that they were still five
or six days distant when the city was
surrendered. Artillery had been
shipped by sea to Trebizond.
A telegram from Sebastopol reports
the bombardment of Vitzesu, on the
Black sea, 15 miles east of Trebizond.
The Turks are evacuating.
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