News-Journal from Mansfield, Ohio • 1

GOOD EVENING Come to think of 1t-that posed peace conference may come nearer being what its name implies if Carranza does decide to refuse to grace it by his presence. Thirty-first Year, No. 147. GERMANY GIVES STRONG PLEDGE Will Punish Submarine Commander if Arabic's Sinking Was Deliberate. SECOND CONFERENCE WITH VON BERNSTORFF Today by Secretary Lansing and Amicable Understanding Arrived At.

Washington, Aug. optimism prevailed in administration (circles following a second confer(ence between Count Von Bernstorff Secretary of State Lansing. tand This was true both at the White )House and at the state department. accepted that there would be It was hitch in reaching a complete untin the future her submarine warfare with Germany whereby will be conducted along lines demanded by the United States. Ambassador Gerard at Berlin has confirmed the statements made by the German ambassador that Germany has instructed her submarine commanders that there shall be no further torpedoing without warning of passenger carrying boats on which there might be Americans.

It was learned this afternoon that the memorandum which Ambassador Von Bernstorff handed Secretary Lansing pledged satisfaction to the American government in terms far stronger than even the most optimistic had hoped for. It is declared that Germany has given assurance that the submarine commander will be fully punished if It be proved that one deliberately sank the Arabic. In Washington circles this afternoon this news was greeted with great satisfaction. Intimates of Count Von Bernstorff flatly declared that at last he had prevailed over the German naval extremists headed by Grand Admiral Von Tirpitz. They say that the recent statements of the imperial chancellor and Foreign Minister Von Jagow have been almost a duplicate of language used by the ambassador in his suggestions as sent to Berlin.

The new policy they insist was framed by Von Bernstorff and marks the first well defined effort on the part of Germany to line up neutral sentiment on her side. According to German embassy sources the question of accepting responsibility for the Lusitania and making reparation for the American victiins ofedhat tragedy is being handled through Ambassador Gerard. All that Count Von Bernstorff has been directed to do is to restore an amicable understanding and prevent any break in diplomatic relations as a result of the sinking of the Arabic. The Lusitania question is being handled by Foreign Minister Von Jagow and Ambassador Gerard in Berlin. Ambassador Von Bernstorff presented to Secretary Lansing a copy of his instructions received from the German foreign office.

These include the summary of the instructions that already have bee. issued to the German submarine commanders. It is understood that Von Bernstorff talked very frankly to Lansing. He told him that Germany valued the friendship of the United States too much to sacrifice it to a momentary success. Secretary Lansing stated afterward that he could make public at this time any of the cablegrams received from Ambassador Gerard.

He admitted frankly that the message dealt directly with the submarine campaign and that ambassador has made it plain how important this government believes it to be that a complete understanding be reached at this time. The secretary's entire attitude was extremely hopeful but he said that until the entire question 1 is settled no official statement will be made by this department. DEATH OF AUTO VICTIM Is Followed by Arrest of Man Who Was Driving Car. Akron, Aug. the death of James Henwood, farmer, who was killed when his buggy was struck by a flying automobile is the down town streets, Assistant Prosecutor Musser ordered the arrest today of John Steckle, 30, bookkeeper, on a manslaughter charge.

Witnesses testified at the coroner's hearing that Steckle, who was returning from the lake resorts with a party of men friends, was driving at the rate of 30 miles an hour. The accused man submitted to arrest without protest, though he declared he was driving only at an 18 or 20 mile rate when his machine hit Henwood. The Home Paper of Mansfield and Vicinity MANSFIELD NEWS MANSFIELD, OHIO, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1915. SIXTEEN First Photos of Warsaw Forts Destroyed by Germans WIFE AND 3 CHILDREN OF U.S. ARMY OFFICER MEET DEATH IN FIRE San Francisco, Aug.

27-Mrs. J. J. Pershing, wife of General Pershing in charge of the federal troops at El Paso, and her three children were burned to death today in their home in the officers' section of the Presidio. Mrs.

Pershing was the daughter of United States Senator Francis E. Warren of Wyoming. She was married to General Pershing in Washington on June 26, 1905. General Pershing is commander of the Eighth brigade of the regular United States army. The fire that cost the lives of Mrs.

Pershing, Margaret, aged Ann, aged Helen, aged 8, are discovered at 5 o'clock this morning. The entire section of the building was gutted. Mrs. Walter 0. Boswell, wife of Lieut.

Boswell, her two children, their nurse maid and Warren Per-' shing, aged 5, were rescued by firemen. After the fire was extinguished the bodies of Mrs. Pershing and her three young daughters were found lying under Mrs. Pershing's bed. They had evidently crawled under the bed to escape the suffocating smoke.

The positions in which their bodies were found indicated that all of them had suffered terribly before the end came. They're Getting Away. Petrograd, Aug. is being evacuated. Only sufficient troops to delay the German advance are now in the fortress.

HANDS STINGER TO ROOSEVELT Colonel's Attitude on Plattsburg Incident Reminds Garrison of a Story. WOOD ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF REBUKE Secretary of War Says He's Too Busy to Keep Tab On Teddy All the Time. Washington, Aug. Gen. Leonard Wood replied today to the rebuke administered him yesterday by Secretary of War Garrison for allowing former President Roosevelt to address the soldiers at the Plattsburg, N.

military training camp. His telegram said: "Your telegram received and policy laid down will be rigidly adhered to." Secretary Garrison, after making Wood's reply public, handed out a statement in reply to the announcement made by Col. Roosevelt in New York last night. It said: "I have just read Mr. Roosevelt's statement.

I see he blames the whole thing on me, He takes the position that it is notorious that he has the habit of making indiscreet speeches and that it therefore was my duty to And out if he intended to go to Plattsburg and if so head him off and save him from himself. "Well, maybe that is so. But it's a rather large order. He is a rather active man and I'm a very busy one, and it's going to be a pretty hard job for me to keep my eye on him all the time. "The colonel's attitude about himself reminds me of the story of the farmer who was on the way to the railroad station one morning when he met friend, who asked: 'Where are you He replied: 'I'm goin' down to Bangor to git drunk, and good lord, how I do dread That portion of the statement issued at New York last evening by Col.

Roosevelt, to which Secretary Garrison refers, is as follows: "Nearly three weeks ago it was announced in the public press, the statement being carried prominently in every big newspaper, that in addition to President Wilson and Secretary Garrison, some scores of private citizens had been asked to go to the Plattsburg camp, where it was expected they would speak to the men. Among the names mentioned in addition to my own were those of former President Taft, Samuel Gompers and John Mitchell. "It is, of course, impossible that Secretary Garrison can have been ignorant that we were asked and it he desired Gen. Wood to notify in advance what we were expected to say or leave unsaid it was clearly (Continued on second page) These remains of the once powerful forts which protected Warsaw show the great destructive work of the 42 centimetre4 German Mege guns which smashed to bits the forts of Namur in Belgium early in the war. The Russians were unable to stand against the mighty power.

of these guns, and these photographs, the first to arrive in the United States of the fall of Warsaw, show that the Germans were able to drive out the Russians there because of their superior artillery. The photographs are the first hint of the real cause of the Russian defeat at Warsaw. The great guns which demolished the Belgian forts were used to smash the Russian defenses. Guy Press CATHOLIC BISHOP SHOT Winona, Aug. Bishop Patrick Heffron, of the Catholic diocese of Winona, was shot and probably fatally wounded today by a man who was said to have been an expriest.

The shooting occurred at St. Mary's College, one mile west of here. Two bullets entered the bishop's body just above the heart. Bishop Heftron is a native of New York. Admiralty Has Not Yet Received Any Official Report of Arabic's Sinking Berlin, Aug.

-Failure of the admiralty to receive an official report upon the sinking of the White Star liner Arabic has strengthened the belief, unofficially expressed here, that the steamship was sunk by mine and not by a German It is eight days since the Arabic was sent to the bottom and as most of the submarines of the type are equipped with wireless so that reports can be transmitted from sea, the conclusion in official circles is growing stronger that the Arabic was either sent to the bottom througb some agency outside of the German submarines or else the submarine that delivered the attack was subsequently sunk itself. On account of the growing tenseness in the relations between the Imperial government and the United States government since the sinking of the Arabic, the admiralty has been making extraordinary efforts to get in touch with all submarines that were known to be in Irish waters at the tlue the liner went down. Particular emphasis is laid upon the fact, admitted by British admiralty officials and passengers and seamen on the Arabic, that no submarine was seen the vicinity of the liner. As a result of the developments of the past three days it is now regarded as most likely that the Arabic incident will furnish any cause for diplomatic break between the two powers. It has been made plain by Chansellor von Bethmann-Hollweg that Germany has every desire to recognize and respect the rights and dignity of nations now neutral.

And this is especially so in the case of the United States which is now the strongest neutral power in the world. But the German foreign office THE WEATHER Washington, Aug. ly cloudy in north; showers in south portion tonight; Saturday partly cloudy and slightly warmer. Hun rises 5:26, sets 6:34. PAGES Price 2 Cents FOUND HIS MOTHER And Also Discovered That Father Lives In Norwalk.

Tiffin, Aug. Dunfee, 36, insurance man here, met his mother today for the first time since infancy to know her as his mother. The two had not seen each other 1 for 25 years and Dunfee had always regarded her as his aunt. Dunfee's parents separated when he was a baby and he was adopted by others. Fifteen years ago he learned that they were not his real parents, but he was unable to ascertain who his father and mother really were.

A few days ago he learned that Mrs. Mary O'Hara, residing in Columbus, and whom he had always regarded as his aunt, is his mother. He went to Columbus and met her. Mrs. O'Hara did not recognize Dunfee, but when confronted with the facts, admitted that he was her son.

He then learned that his father, Charles Dunfee, resides in Norwalk. He has written to him and is awaiting a reply. Dunfee's mother married a second time. PILE OF FLOUR AND AFFABLE STRANGERS Costly Combination For Cleveland Cafe Man Who Is Now Poorer But Wiser. Cleveland, Aug.

a result of his love of cleanliness, Joseph Steverding Is short $885 today. His esteem for two affable gentlemen who called his attention to a pile of flour in front of his saloon is also lowered to zero. The men, apparently strangers to each other, walked into Steverding's saloon, in Cedar avenue, yesterday afternoon. One purchased drinks with a $10 bill, which Steverding placed under the bar in a cigar box containing $85. The other casually volunteered the information that "some boys" had dropped a sook of flour on the sidewalk in front.

The pair walked out and followed with broom and spent ten minutes sweeping up the walk. When he returned he found the cigar box containing the $85 missing and upon going upstairs discovered his bureau had been robbed of $800. A grocer whose store is near dropped into the cafe a little later and listened with consternation to Steverding's story of his loss. "I sold them the flour," he explained. THEY'RE SEEING THINGS.

Laredo, Aug. 27- Federal authorities today confiscated the edition of Mexican newspaper published at Monterey in which was printed an account of the capture of Texas and other southern states by Mexican forces. Many copies of the newspaper were sent here for distribution among the Mexican inhabitants. FOUR REPORTED KILLED When Weakened Bridge Collapsed Beneath Train. Phoenix, Aug.

Four persons were reported killed and twelve injured when northbound Santa Fe train was wrecked today on a bridge at Date Creek, 70 miles from here. The bridge was weakened by a cloudburst. After the engine passed over the bridge safely the span collapsed, plunging the smoker into the water. The sleeping car remained on the track. The train was going from Phoenix to Prescott.

CHILD'S ACCIDENTAL SHOT May Result in Death of Mother, Be- lieved Fatally Hurt. Celina, Aug. 27-Mrs. Carrie Mazengo, 31, who was accidentally shot by her four year old son, Carl, late yesterday, was reported to be in a dying condition this morning. The bullet has not been located.

Mrs. Mazengo was holding a baby in her arms which she WAs nursing when the lad picked up the revolver from a dresser and fired the shot at his mother. The baby dropped to the floor unhurt as the mother fell over unconscious. Electrocuted in Tree. Springfeld, Aug.

Hiller electrocuted this morning while trimming trees. He came in contact with live wire, which he grasped. The Are department called to remove his body. FALL OF OLITA OPENS THE WAY our wants to be absolutely sure that any American rights were violated before any decided step is taken. Ambassador Gerard is in constant communication with his government believed that if his late dispatches on the German attitude are made public in the United States they will greatly allay any high feeling which may have arisen over the Arabic affair.

It is believed that, within the next two weeks, Germany will. issue to the world a formal declaration relative to he submarine policy. "VICTORY FOR HUMANITY" Is London's View of Modification of Submarine Policy. London, Aug. from Berlin and Washington stating that Germany will modify her submarine policy were hailed here by evening newspapers today as "notable victory" for the United States and a "decisive defeat" for Admiral Von Tirpitz, head of the German admiralty.

Washington advices to the effect that Count Von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, had given assurances to Secretary of State Lansing that Germany's submarine policy in the future will be such to give neutrals an opportunity to escape from merchantmen before they are attacked is regarded by the press as "a victory not only for the United States but for humanity." The advantage to England from such a modification of naval policy by Germany is not as great as might be supposed for the Germn admiralty is arming most of its big new boats with long-range guns of medium calibre which gives them at once the double advantage of the submarine and the suface man of war. For Austro-German Forces to Make Another Drive Toward Vilna and Grodno. BELIEVE THAT GRODNO WILL BE EVACUATED Advancing Hosts of the Kaiser Take Several Thousand Russian Prisoners. Berlin, Aug. 27, (By Wireless)Olita, a Russian fortress guarding the Niemen river between Kovno and Grodno, has been captured by the Germans, the general staff reported today.

The fall of this city, on the bank of the Niemen opens the way for another drive toward Vilna, to the northeast and Grodno to the south. It is believed here that Grodno will be evacuated by the Russians, as the general staffs official report states that German troops advancing toward the east from Ossowiec have crossed the Berezowka, a tributary of the Bobr. These troops are headed in the direction of Grodno. In the fighting on Wednesday and Thursday General Von Gallwitz captured 3500 Russians and five machine guns, while in operations east of Kovno by the troops advancing on Vilna 2400 Russians, four cannon and three machine guns were taken. Advancing from Brest Litovsk, the Germans are approaching the Kamenez Myscyoze road.

To the southeast of Brest Litovsk the Russians have retreated across the Ruta river. NEW DRIVES IN WEST And Campaign Against Greatest Fortress in France is Forecast. HELD FAST IN AUTO AND BURNED TO DEATH Cleveland Man Meets Awful Death When Gasoline Tank Explodes In Accident. Cleveland, Aug. Corrigan, 28, early today was burned to death when an automobile in which he was riding with William Passnow, 29, skidded in the roadway two miles south of the city limits and exploded.

Passnow mas thrown clear of the machine and not seriously injured. He was taken home in a police emergency automobile. Passnow was thrown clear of the were passing the farm house of John Aurelius the automobile struck a mud hole and skidded into a tree. The gasoline tank was punctured and the car broke into flames. "I was thrown clear of the automobile, but Corrigan, who was driving, was wedged in by the steering wheel," Passnow said.

"I was dazed for a minute from the fall and when I sat up and looked around the automobile was in flames, and Corrigan was standing straight up in the car, struggling to release himself. His foot seemed to be caught. "I tried to get to him to aid him, but the flames were all around him, and he was a veritable human torch," he "Then Aurelius came and together with a rope we succeeded in pulling him from the wreckage, but it was too late for only the charred body was left. CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER In Indictment Returned in Connecton With Eastland Tragedy. Chicago, Aag.

1-Walter K. Greenebaum, vice president and genend manager of the Indiana Transportation company, today was indicted by the county grand jury on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the Eastland tragedy. The Indiana company had leased the boat for the excursion the day she capsized with the loss of nearly 1,000 lives. The indictment against Greenebaum charges that the boat was not seaworthy and that it was overloaded. Amsterdam, Aug.

German drives in the western war theater, particularly a great campaign against Verdun, France's mightiest fortress, are forecasted in advices received here today from Berlin. These report that 100,000 German troops who have been participating in the eastern struggles are now on their way to Alsace-Lorraine, with the heavy artillery that battered the fortifications of Novo Georgievsk. Gen. von Beseler, who directed the artillery operations' against Antwerp and Novo Georgievsk, is said to be accompanying the German artillery sent west. Verdun has proven a stumbling block to the Germans in the west as Warsaw was in the east.

The Polish fortress finally fell as the result of German flanking movements. The same policy probably will be tried in the west by smashing attacks in the Argonne and on the St. Mihiel salient. Success in either region would permit the Germans to bring their guns to bear upon Verdun. SUDDEN BLOW PREDICTED After Germans Are Well Advanced Into Russian Territory.

AMBASSADOR GERARD DISPATCHES MESSAGES MANES W. GERARD. Petrograd, Aug. 27-Russian military experts predict a sudden blow by Grand Duke Nicholas after the Austro-German armies have advanced far enough into Russian territory to prevent their escape if decisively beaten. None attempt to say where this blow will be struck, but they compare the present situation with that of the allies in September, 1914, when the Germans, advancing victoriously in France, met defeat on the river Marne.

"One might expect," says the military critic of the Bourse Gazette today, "that the loss of our greatest fortresses would cause dismay at the war office. On the contrary, the men responsible for the successful conduct of the conflict never appeared more optimistic. "This can lead to but one belief -that the Russian armies, successfully withdrawn from the traps set by the kaiser and his commanders, are awaiting only the favorable moment to strike their blow, which will upset all the Teutonic schemes." The Novoe Vremya's expert takes a similar view of the situation. He gives assurance that the replenishing of the munition stores is proceeding with such rapidity that within a month the Russian armies will be in a position to act aggressively and surprise the hostile armies, which "hope to strike fear into the heart of Russia and force this country into an ignominious peace." "It is the enemy who is wasting his ammunition now," he continues. The result can easily be foreseen.

Germany had hoped to shatter the "The Russians are conserving theirs. Russian armies. That hope has been blasted. Our forces will emerge from this ordeal stronger than ever before. The Russian morale cannot be terrified.".