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[United Press Leased Wire Service.] <i®y Ed. L. Keen, United Press Staff BERLIN, (via London) Dec. Correspondent.]

Ridiculing British claims that uertnan coast is closely blocka'/* the admiralty announced today t'*> -« portion of the German fleet se' * «d t h e N o r t h s e a l a s t w e e k w i t h e n ­countering any of the eneny£« taval forces. On. Wednesday and^p jrsday the GSerman warships eru' in the Skagerack (the arm of t*v -orth sea between Norway and Denmark) to watch shipping, it was stated. Fifty-two vessels were examined and one seized.

WHY RUSSIANS FAILED. BERLIN, Dec. 20. (Via wireless to

Sayvjlie.)—The fact that't^e Russian]

LONDON, Dec. 20.—Britishers gen­erally regard Germany's'much adver­tised Egyptian campaign as mostly, though not entirely, a bluff.

Amsterdam dispatches reporting that Field Marshal Von Der Goltz has arrived in .•Syria to lead a Turco-Ger-man Invasion, were read with inter­est. But they failed to agitate mili­tary circles in London.

Officials Interviewed %y the United Press today said they believed a more formidable army would be required for a successful invasion via the Suez canal than Germany.and Turkey can possibly muster and equip in view of

reconnoiterlng service was £oor, made condition. on other fronts, "such an possible the great German victory at ?.xP|e?. attempted, Germany

ei-.iw \/nn win And t necessary to retain huge forces, Tannanberg, Field Marshal Von Hin- |f| ^ Ba,kan; t0 prevent A„olo. French troops co-operating with Rus-

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William G. Shepherd, United Press Staff Correspondent.]

SALONIKA, Dec: 20.—Bulgarian lops have ieized the American Red

P^.oss stores at Monastir, after tearing |4own the American flag, according to

kdvlces received here today. Mrs. Walter BVirwell, Chicago so­

briety woman, who was In Monastir Etolog newspaper work, and Dr. Forbes, |«f the Red Cross, have been taken In-

custody by Bulgarian officers, the Jspat'ches stated. American Consul Kehl of Salonika Is sparing to appeal to Washington i behalf of the two Americans.

Mrs. Farwell Is WaaHhy^V'.'-viy CHICAGO, Dep. 20.—Mrs. Walter arwell, reported in a United Press •patch to hare beep taken Into

. with a Dr. Forbes of the Red Pcross fey'"Bulgarians at Monastir, fltfbls, is the wife of Walter Farwell,

of the late C. B. Farwell, U. S. ator from.Illinois In 1890. Her hus-

(tad is a millionaire and Is interested i a land investment company at Pan-ndle, Texas. Mrs. Farwell was engaged as cor-spondent of the Chicago Tribune at onastlr. According to the Tribune

he had been assured of safety at onastlr by the Bulgarians.. She was [las Mildred Williams of Washington,

C., daughter of General and Mrs. lliiams. Her mother's first husband

Stephen A. Douglas, political op-nent of Abraham Lincoln, according

i relatives here.

•E Dangeroue Situation. [tBy Wm. G. Shepherd, United F'ress

Staff Correspondent] SALONIKA, Dec. 20.—Mrs. Walter

Farwell, Chicago society woman, was tooghly handled by Bulgarian soldiers

i*ho attacked Dr. Harry S. Forbes, of Boston, American Red Cross worker, ta a raid on the American Red Cross headquarters at MonaattF, Serbia, ac­cording to word brought here today.

• The American flag was torn from a gliding and Red Cross stores for the nlief of Serbians seized for use by the Bulgarian army. Sentries were sta­tioned at all doors of the Red Cross

jfballdlng and the American workers *nd Mrs. Farwell virtually' made pris­oners. ' Edward Stuart, chief of the Amerl-ican Red Cross force in Serbia, today

-[appealed to the American state de-Ktartment through Consul Kehl, to do-||Band that Mrs. Farwell and Forbes ||se allowed to leave Monastir. A Red

[Cross agent who reported the attack ;to Stuart, said that they were safe

Wednesday, but that the situation *w' growing very unpleasant if not •ctually dangerous.

f Forbes, according to- reports re-sttlv^d by the Red Cross officials hers. 'Purchased twenty-four carloads of ®our from the Serbians before they iwacuated Monastir. He stored it In sB«d Cross headquarters and was dis-rtrtbuting small portions dally to the WOO Impoverished families in Mon-*®ttr. The Bulgarians repeatedly de­manded that Forbes sell the flour to weir troops, offering double prices. Jorbe8 refused., explaining that the Hour was the property of the Amcrl-JJ® Red Cross for distribution among

civilians. When the Bulgars wreatened to confiscate the flour, rorbes hung an American flag over

the door. Several Bulgarian officers, with thirty soldiers suddenly descend­ed on the building and tore down the flag. One officer who said he was a former deputy sheriff in Kansas, ex­claimed to Forbes:

"I know that rag. It's only good enough to scare Mexicans, not Bul­gars."

Several soldiers sprang upon Forbes, according to the report roceived by Red Cross officials here. In the strug­gle an officer struck him with the butt of his sword.

Mrs. Farwell attempted to photo­graph the Invaders. Three soldiers seized her by the neck and arms and •mashed her camera.

The Bulgars then seized twto car­loads of flour and warned Forbes and Mrs. Farwell not to attempt to leave the building. A Red Cross agent 'who was sent into berbla' in an attempt to reach Ftorbes and Mrs. Farwell.*was turned back at the Bulgarian lines. He gathered the story of !he raid from Bulgarian officials with whom he con­versed.

> - v no Official Report. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—State de­

partment officials read William G. Shepherd's dispatch to tho United Press from Salonika, with interest to­day, but said so far no report on the (Bulgarian attack1 on Red Cross head­quarters had been received from Consul Kahl.

The department has no advices re­garding Mrs. ..alter Farwell or other Americans in Monastir. If Consul Kahl forwarded his report when Shep­herd states, it would not arrive here until late tonight, according to the usual time for transmission.

OTTUMWA FIRE WAS SPECTACULAR

'Superintendent of Schools Lost His $2,000 Library When Home

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[United Press \Leased Wire Service.^ OTTUMWA, lowa, Dec. 20.—A huge

double house occupied by Superinten­dent of Schools Blackmar was en­tirely destroyed by lire here yester­day, the loss being estimated at $15,-000, with $7,400 of Insurance.

Hundreds of spectators gasped when the flaming wall of a big gable tottered perilously and then slowly crashed down on top of Fireman Ben Edwards who was directly beneath on a porch-roof. Womens' shrieks were succeeded by cheers when Edwards arose from the blazing debris and, un­hurt, calmly remained at his .post.

Superintendent Blackmar was un­able to save a single book from his $2,«j0 library.

denburg told a correspondent in an Interview published today. This In­feriority, he said, made possible the bold stroke by which the Germans at­tacked one Russian army while leaving General Rennenkampf near Cumblnnen In Ignorance of their movements.

Had. his plan failed, the roads of east Prussia would have been filled with refugees, Von Hlndqnburg said, but despite this fact the responsibility for the maneuver was easy to bear.

"The war is a scientific fact which fills my mind," he explained. "The real feeling of responsibility comes only after the end of a battle when one Is no more thinking of sclentlflo-operations."

[United Press Leased Wire Service.] PARIS, Deo. 20.—French

elans and possibly Roumanians from cutting her lines of communication.

Nevertheless, England is taking no chances. The United Press Is not permitted to specify the extraordin*rv defensts erected In the Suez canal region since abortive attempts of the Turks against Egypt early in the war. But British military experts agree that these defenses are now practic­ally impregnable.

"It would require at least two months for the Germans and Turks to assemble menacing forces on the Egyptian front," one official said. "In the meantime England would have ample opportunity to reinforce her Egyptian troops sufficiently to meet any attempt at an invasion."

The Egyptian situation Is being watched, but England's more immedi­ate concern today is the situation at Salonika and at the Dardanelles. ^

There Is little chance of an effec­tive German offensive in the west­ern front during the winter in view of the weather conditions thus far which are worse than last year. Tho German offensive around Ypres re-

troopsi ported in last night's war office state-ws™ forced'to"evacuate -a small post" rn^r^r.nTHJHVfiot •Lut*??Bt * considered the b.alnSfl. "f I new southeast of Skilly last night, it was | """••* officially admitted this afttfrnojuv Thei1£P"^®re

(3r works had been taken by the Frenchj on last Thursday.

"In the Artols region there was grenade fighting last night," said the official communique. "North of Bols

beginnings rive. Similar attacks may

expected within the next few weeks against both the British and French front. In the opinion of Brit­ish military men, they are manifest­ly for the purpose qf preventing as

[United Press Leased Wire service.] LONDON, Dec. 20.—That Russia

has abandoned all idea of entering the Palkan campaign was apparently confirmed in Sofia despatches today, announcing the withdrawal of Slav troops from Rent on the Roumanian frontier where they have been con­centrated for several weeks.

Sofia corroborated reports reaching Rotterdam that the Russian troops were being transferred t.o the Buko-wlna frontier, presumably for a new blow at Austria.

Diplomatic clroles were advised a few days ago that the czar had given up hope of obtaining Roumanian co­operation In sending troops down the Danube Into Bulgaria. The Roumani­ans threatened to oppose with arms any movement of Slavs across their frontier.

SERB ARMY IS A*WRECK. .SOFIA, Dec. 20. (Via Berlin wire­

less.)—Only fifty thousand Serbian troops escaped capture or annlhlation at the hands of the Austro-German and Bulgarian armies, according to ad­vices received here today.

Of this number 30,000 attempted to reach Scutari without baggage and artillery. At least 10,000 of these perished In the Albanian mountains and-a great number were killed by Albanian Irregulars. Only a small Bulgarian force Is now employed against the remnant of the Serb forces. It was stated today that no more Im­portant events are expected in this theatre of war.

The Bulgarian armies oaptured 45r 000 railroad trucks laden with muni­tions, cannon, leather, gasoline and all sorts of provisions obtained by the Serbs from their allies.

< NEUTRALITY FAVORED. ATHENS, Dec. 20—The Gounarls

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I En Tranche there was artillery fight- much as possible the sending Ing. In the Fay region we silenced a- . -enemy battery at Sainte Leocade.

"In the Woevre, Mortmare and Le Pretre woods our batteries shelled the enemy's communicating trenches."

Anqio-French reinforcements Balkans.

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Will Divide the Treasure. DALLAS, Texas, Dec. 20.—The

seven men who have been digging In the quick sands along Buzzard Springs ro§d since July 17, have formed a legal co-partnership govern­ing the division of the $2,000,000 in gold coin and Jewelry they hope to unearth. This fact developed today when Oliver Nichols, one of the treas­ure hunterB, admitted that a formal contract is deposited in a local bank vault .

ABANDON DARDANELLES. LONDON, Dec. 20.—All British

troops at the Suvla Bay and Anzao region of the Dardanelles, together with guns, have been transferred to "another sphere of operations," the war office announced today.

The transfer was accomplished "with insignificant casualties," the war office added, indicating that the Twrks launched a furious attack when the troops began re-embarking.

One of the objections against aban-

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[United Press Leased Wire Service.] CONSTANTINOPLE, (via gerlin)

Dec. 20.—Heavy Turkish batteries are now pounding at the main defense of Kut-EI-Amara, the British base In Mesopotamia, it was officially an­nounced today. Part of these defenses have been destroyed.

MASSACRES GOING ON. SCUTARI A, Dec. 20. (Via Rome.)—

Mussulmans, armed by Bulgars and Austriiams, are maesacreing old men

!and attacking helpless women in Serb-Ian Macedonia, the Serbian war office charged in an official statement.

-"The cruelties and excesses are without precedent," said the official statement.

PEACE EFFORTS IPHESS, MM

Backer of Argosy Still has Faith, in Spite of y Efforts of Other Members of the Party ,4

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Expedition Reaches First Neutral Country in Europe and is Not Received With

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[By Chas. P. Stewart, United Press Staff Correspondent.]

•CHRISTIANIA, Dec. 20.—For the first time since the Oscar II set *&il from New York, leaders of the Ford peace party today began to dou'bt the success of plans for a peace congress of neutrals.

The expedition has reached Its first neutral country and its reception has lacked warmth, If it has not been hostile. The unfriendly attitude of the Norwegian press has convinced the peace chiefs that their plans to bring the boys out of tho trenches will encounter rough sledding among European neutrals.

Judge Ben B. Lihdsey, of 'Denver, one of the most prominent figures aboard ship, today advised F6rd to abandon the peace mission alto­gether. Llndsey «IB convinced that peace efforts will be hopeless and he begged Ford to change his plans and turn the enterprise into one for find­ing: homes for war orphans.

Ford refused to consider the sug­gestion. He is not at all downcast by the reception the peace argosy receiv­ed upon its arrival here, or by the row that broke out in mid-Atlantic. Ho had his emissaries today trying to ar­range an audience with the king of Norway.

Rumors of Important developments are current however. Ford's lieuteu-ants admit that the peace plans are no better developed than when the party left New York. The cost of the

i peace expedition so far is $125,00© and 'Financial Manaper Pleinntlff estimates :that the final total will reach half a i million at least. /

The attempt to oust several news­paper correspondents from the party has failed. The executive committee first considered expelllntr the newspa­permen, charging that tliey had sent out wireless messages giving unfavor­able news regarding the peace voy-japers. Correspondents learned that the wireless dispatches they sent from j | the Oscar TI while crossing, were read | by Ford's lieutenants. The executive I committee finally agreed that to expel j theVorrespondents would end all furth­er publicity for the peace enterprise,

Father Under Arrest. [United Press Leased Wire Service.]

GREENVILLE, Texas, Dec. 20.—T. L. Walton, father of Paulihe Walton, the 17 year old girl who was found sitting on the edge of the bed in 'her room at Paris Saturday morning, her head nearly severed, was brought here from Paris today and placed in the county Jail.

The county authorities would give no further information than that Wal­ton had been brought here for safe keeping.

CIGAR STORE GAMBLING

& LEADS TO WHOLESALE ARRESTS

*tfty-five Citizens Rounded up After Secret Work by

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OTTUMWA. Iowa, Dec. 20—Flfty-- men, including prominent cigar,

Proprietors, "men about town." ling evidence.

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and alleged boot-leggers will be ar­raigned in district court here late to­day on charges embracing Illegal sale of liquors and cigarets, gambling by means of slot machines and punch boards and other violations of state laws. Indictments against the defend­ants were returned on the strength of reports made to the grand jury by state agents from Des Moines who spent several weeks as "stools" gather-

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[United Press Leased Wire Service.] WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—Anybody

can have a guess on what Coloned Roosevelt is going to do in the cam­paign. T. R. is the best dope upsetter in politics. The colonel's attendance at the Gary dinner may mean a pow­erful lot—and again it may not

Summed up, this was the politi­cians' view here today. The politi­cal wiseacres were admittedly up in the air over the matter. Candidates and near-candidates were chary of opinion. . T .

"The newspapers in which I reaa the story did not appear to draw any political conclusions from the dinner and I don't see why I should," was the guarded expression of Senator Borah, Idaho's "favorite son." "I know nothing about it and any opin­ion by me if I had one—which I have not—would be out of place."

Senator Clapp, progressive-republi­can and ardent Roosevelt admirer, said:

"I see no political significance in it. Colonel Roosevelt has had enough ex­perience with those gentlemen to withstand their blandishments; he Is fully capable of taking care of him­self in their company or any other."

Senator Poindexter of Washington, who recently announced his return from the progressive to republican j ranks declared: !

"Colonel Roosevelt has a right to j attend a private dinner and it Is not '• for me to comment." j

Representative Towner of Iowa, re-1

publican, said he saw no political slg- , niflcance in the dinner. )

. "I don't think any combination of i rich men can club the republican I party into nominating any man," said Representative Curry of California, , republican. "I guess the dinner was i merely to throw a few boquets at the , coloneL The republican candidate

will be nominated by the republican party and I don't think Colonel Roose­velt has a chance."

Political leaders who have recently pow-wowed with the colonel at Oys­ter Bay, declare he will not be smoked out regarding his posslblfe candidacy. He has toid callers that he would support a republican candidate like Justice Hughes, former Governor Had-ley of Missouri, governor Johnson of California, or former senator and Sec­retary of State Knox of Pennsylvania. Elihu Root is positively taboo.

Some of the political dopesters thought they saw some connection with a Roosevelt presidential boom in the mysterious visit here during the meeting of the republican national committee of Frank H. Hitchcock who steered the republican machine Taft-ward in 1908 under Roosevelt's or­ders.

Hitchcock's own explanation of his presence here was that he merely wished to renew old friendships among the committeemen. Hitchcock used to be popularly credited with having the southern delegates all cor­ralled in his famous card catalogue

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and seriously impair the success o( the expedition.

The attitude of the Norwegian press is undoubtedly dictated by un-among the peace advocates also have created an unfavorable impression here.

Norwegian Btudents met the peace leaders last night The ministers' peace society, under the leaderahip of Rev. Twedt, formerly of Minneapolis, greeted the delegates today, ',1'he larger Norwegian peace organisations have held aloof. According to the Christlanla newspapers, the only prominent Norwegian pacificist Inter­ested is former Secretary Lange of The Hague International peaoe so­ciety.

Because of an attack of influenza. Ford was not able to attend last night's meeting of btudents, held in a small hall. United States Minister Schmederq&n was iQ the apdienpe^ Louis P. Lochner who spoke for Fora, announced that the complete delega­tion for the peace congress would in­clude the Americans and all Dutch representatives who chose to attend and ten Norwegians, ten Swedes, ten. Danes, ten Spanish and ten Swiss peace advocates. Their expenses .will be paid by Ford.

The Oscar II was detained at Kirk­wall nearly three days, the Frederick VIII, carrying twenty-two other peace advocates arriving prior to her depar­ture.

The British authroities took off the Oscar's mail, suspecting that it con­tained contraband. Five Norwegian newspapermen joined the party at Christiansand. They said Norwegion socialists were sympathetic, but had made no arrangements for an official reception.

"You have our sympathy," said the spokesman for the Norwegian news, papermen, in greeting the American correspondents.

A violent altercation resulted from attempts to give the Norwegian re­porters the news.

"Insurgents" in the peace party ad« mitted the truth of reports of dissen­sions. The Ford "regulars" told the Norwegians these reports had- been grossly exaggerated and attempted to give them a more favorable impres­sion. The row was still on when the Oscar II reached Christlanla,

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and now that tho Gary dinner story is out, there were politicians here who had hunches today that possibly Hitchcock was "sounding out" on the Roosevelt sentiment. Ormsby Mc-Harg, another expert on southern delegates has not yet been heard from. He has forsaken the bull moose field.

May Take a Hand. CHICAGO, Dec. 20.—Belief that

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt wnl take j a hand in the republican national con­vention, gained credence in Chicago

I today when admission was mala that j Roosevelt's friends have taken an I option on the Florentine room at the I Congress hotel for the period of the i j convention. |

The option expires tomorrow. Me- ] dill McCormick who conferred with j Roosevelt Saturday, is speeding to Chi-' cago today to report the colonel's de­cision to his friends here.

"The reservation was tentatively made by Harold F. Ickes, Illinois chairman of the progressive party," the Congress management admitted today. "Ickes declared he would tell us today or tomorrow whether to make the reservation permanent."

The reservation was made last week immediately after conference between Geo. W. Perkins and ickes.

Ickes at that time, declared Roose­velt had asserted he would not come to the convention. McCormick then was sent to New York for a confer- i ence with Roosevelt.

The Florentine room at the Con­gress accommodates 400 persons as an audience hall, besides having Quar­ters for offices.

McCormick. New York dispatches | said today, attended a dinner in New ; York Friday night, given by Judge E. , H. Gary, at which Roosevelt, Perkins t and a number of prominent financiers . were guesta. j

THIRTY-FIVE MORE ARRESTS K MAY BE MADE IN BOMB PLOT

Government Thinks it Has Struck at the Heart of

the Plot Sysitem.

[United Press Leased Wire Service.] NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—A woman

entered the Weliand canal dynamit­ing conspiracy investigation today when Mrs. Herman Fuchs, aunt of Paul Koenig, accused head of the Hamburg-American lines' secret ser­vice, arrived here in response to a government subpoena to go before the federal grand Jury.

Subpoenaed with Mrs. Fuchs are Count R. Neihaus, D. W. Schwartz and Hans Schwarte employed in a Buffalo power plant. All are resi­dents of Niagara Falls. Buffalo is said by government investigators to have been the operating point for the conspiracy to dynamite the Weliand canal.

Government Investigators today claimed that in their arrest, of Koenig they nad struck at the heart of the German bomb and arson plot system.

Thirty-five additiona'. arrests may be made, tho government agents said today, as a result of information ob­tained by the arrest of Fred Metzler, Koenig's secretary. Metzler is con­sidered an important factor in the in­vestigation because of his willingness to describe the system's operations. He was being held incommunicado to­day-

Complete Confession Secured. NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—A complete

statement regarding the pro-German plot to dynamite the Weliand canal was made today by Fred Metzler, ac-oording to federal authorities in charge of the investigation. In the confession covering teutonic conspir­acies, Metzler involved Captains Von Papen and Boy-Ed, recalled attaches

i of tho German embassay, the govern-J ment agents said.

Metzler was secretary to Paul Koenig, head of the Hamburg-Ameri­can line's secret police who Is charged

! with beins the "brains" of the alleged j conspiracy.

Indictments based on Metzler's story ,are expected by Wednesday, it was reported this afternoon. Metzler's collapse under a constant fire of ques­tions since his arrest last week, was regarded by the government as clinch­ing the case they are to put before the grand jury.

j Unfolding the arrangements to dyna. I favorable reports received through I English sources. The Norwegian peo-| plo are more friendly, hut disap-

1 pointed because there are not more • persons of prominence in the delega-' tion. The reports of dissension mite the canal, Metzler is said to have

, described the movements of Geo. Fuchs, an employe of Koenig's, when Fuchs made a trip to Niagara Falls last September. This trip was for the

: purpose of finding the canal's weals

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