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Allies Chase Bulgars Beyond Monastir BULGARS IN PERIL OF AN ALLIED TRAP GIVE UP MONASTIR Hampered by Mud in Their Flight Toward Prilen 24 Miles Away. FIGHT IN CERNA BEND. Bulgarians Claim Repulse of Allies on This Sector of Macedonia. LONDON, Nov. 20.-With rain and sleet interfering with full resumption of operations along the Somme, it was the Balkans that furnished most of the battle news to-day. Additional advices served to increase the significance of Gen. Serrail's victory in the taking of Monastir. It is believed here that the German-Bulgarian forces will not be able to make complete escape from the encircling vise of the allied flanking movement. Desperate fighting is proceeding as the allies strive to close in still further on the retreating Teutons and Bulgars. Roads churned into mud from snow and rain will, it is believed, make it impossible for the Teutonic forces to proceed with sufficient haste in their retreat to accomplish a complete withdrawal of forces and equipment. It appears that far from being content with mere occupation of the city, the allied forces are still thrusting forward in their drive. Prilep, to which city the enemy is withdrawing, is about twenty-four miles to the north. The way is for the most part across level ground, with very few natural defensive features. The allied occupancy of positions along the Cerna River bend gives them a fulcrum for their lever to force clearance of the plain. Military critics here to-day agreed that capture of Monastir is of great importance. Diplomatically most of the credit is given to the Serbians for the victory. It was their splendid fighting along the Cerna bend which compelled the enemy to abandon their southern defenses, enabling advance due north of the French and Russian troops. Ejected from their own country a year ago by Field Marshal von Mackensen's tremendous drive, forced to flee in disorder, their regiments scattered, their equipment - what little there was - for the most part abandoned, the Serbians have been transformed in months into a formidable army with thew arms and equipment and the splendid tutorship of French troops operating with them as brothers in arms. It is expected here that the Monastir victory will have important effect in relieving the German pressure against Roumania. SOFIA, Nov. 20.-"Sanguinary repulse" of renewed allied attacks in the Cerna Bend region near Monastir was announced in to-day's official statement from the Bulgarian War Office. Ruth Law's Daring Flight From Chicago To New York Makes Her An Air Champion Surpasses in Obsolete Machine Non Stop Cross-Country Feat of Carlstrom 100-MILE CLIP AT END Forced to Land at Hornell, N. Y., After Traveling 590 Miles of Journey. Ruth Law, the young woman aviator, flying a small military biplane of obsolete pattern, reached Governor's Island this morning at 9.38 o'clock, completing the third stretch of her air journey from Chicago, which started at 8.25 o'clock (New York time) yesterday morning. She started form Binghamton this morning at 7.20 o'clock. Miss Law made an entirely new mark for non-stop cross-country flights and yesterday wiped out the recent record of Victor Calstrom, for American non-stop flights, made when he was attempting the same feat the young woman tried, but with apparatus 100 per cent. better than hers. Before Miss Law's machine was sighted at Governor's Island, coming out of the haze over Jersey City, she was reported but once after she left Binghamton, when she passed over Port Jervis, 127 miles from Binghamton, at 3:40 o'clock. Miss Law made the 217 miles from Binghamton to Governor's Island in 2 hours and 18 minutes. MOST DRAMATIC FLYING FEAT IN COUNTRY'S HISTORY. The Erie Railroad mileage from Binghamton to Pavonia ferry, Jersey City, is 215 miles and it is two miles more to Governor's Island. The successful landing of Miss Law on Governor's Island ended the most dramatic flying feat this country has seen. The young woman, who is twenty-eight years old, had not before been known as a practical aviator, but was regarded a "stunt" performer, dropping from vast heights in parachutes, looping the loop and spiralling in aeroplanes for the movies, like her spectacular brother, Rodman. She has, indeed, been spoken of in disparaging comparison with him as "Little Sister to the Nut." But, she graduated into full fledged aviation supremacy by a clean cut exhibition of headwork, nerve and sturdy endurance which has completely taken her out of the freak exhibitor class. With a lively hope that favoring winds might enable her to reach New York from Chicago between daylight and dusk yesterday, even though she knew she had not enough gasolene to feed her engine more than 600 of the 900 miles, Miss Law left Chicago at 8.25 o'clock (New York time) yesterday morning. She was bundled in two woollen and two leather flying suits and a be-goggled knitted helmet of wool. The machine, a Curtiss "pusher," with the propeller behind the engine instead of in front, was of a type two years out of date. HER START DELAYED TWO HOURS BY A LAKE GALE. She had intended to start two hours earlier. A gale was blowing across Grant Park from Lake Michigan and, according to Miss Law, her engine was too cold to start. From Chi- (Continued on Second Page.) CRUCIAL MOMENT IN RAILROAD FIGHT COMES THIS WEEK Railroad Managers Leave for Washington to Face Newlands Committee. Judge Robert S. Lovett of the Union Pacific accompanied a group of Eastern railroad managers who went to Washington at midnight last night to attend the hearings of the Newlands commission which begin to-day. Shortly before he left the Hotel Gotham he received a reporter for The Evening World. Asked if he expected any definite results from the investigations to be made by the commission he said: "I cannot say or foresee what will be the result of this inquiry. All I can say is this--the more light we have on railroad matters the better for all concerned. It is not my understanding that the Adamson bill will be discussed at these hearings in any shape or form. I do not understand that the inquiry has any connection with the Adamson bill." Asked if he had heard the railroad chiefs intended to take advantage of the presence of the road Presidents in Washington to open the way for a resumption of the conferences with the railway managers he replied: "It is my personal belief that nothing like that will happen. All of the railroad Presidents will not be there, and it is not likely that they would ask for a conference when they know that some are absent." MAY NOT DISCUSS ADAMSON LAW AT ALL. It is the opinion of Judge Lovett and other road Presidents that the Newlands commission will not permit any reference to the Adamson bill so long as the matter is in the hands of the courts. None deny, however, that the Washington situation, quite apart from the Newlands hearings, is heavy with possibilities and that, in spite of the court proceedings, the Eight-Hour-Day Bill may suddenly become as important a feature of the present Washington gathering as that of last August. The railroad chiefs expect something to happen after their appearance today before the American Federation of Labor convention in Baltimore. When informed that a railroad lawyer had given it as his opinion that it would take more than a month to fight out in the Federal courts any of the injunction suits now filed and that there was little probability of the Supreme Court handing down a decision before Jan. 1, Judge Lovett said: "As to that, I cannot say. Our case has been filed and I haven't heard a word about it since the day of filing." BOTH WOULD LIKE TO REACH A WORKING AGREEMENT. There are rumors current to-day that instead of applying directly to the road Presdents the brotherhood chiefs will ask a conference some day this week with Elisha Lee and his committee. Both sides admit that there must be some kind of a working agreement reached soon. The road managers are not blind to the fact that the brotherhoods could bring about a suspension of work on Jan. 1 through a collective understanding and that such a suspension would not necessarily mean a strike in the accepted sense. They do not deny that the road chiefs are more bitter against them to-day than they were last August and are just as determined to get the eight-hour day as they were eight months ago. Just what the brotherhoods intend to do in the event of the Adamson bill being found unconstitutional none of the local officers will say. TOWN OF ROSCOE LOOTED AFTER 15 BUILDINGS BURN Merchants Stand Guard All Night Over the Smoking Ruins. LOSS PUT AT $150,000 Guests at Two Hotels Flee in Night Clothes - Several New Yorkers Injured. (Special to The Evening World.) ROSCOE, N. Y., Nov. 20.-Merchants of this village armed with shotguns stood guard all night over the smoking ruins of the business section which was destroyed by fire yesterday. While building after building caught fire and the residents of the town fought to save them, a half dozen thieves pillaged stores and residences, and their work was not discovered until after the fire was under control. Fifteen buildings were burned with a loss of $150,000. The origin of the fire, which started at two o'clock yesterday morning in B. A. Fuhrer's bowling alley, has not been determined and an investigation will be made. Fanned by a brisk wind the flames spread rapidly from the bowling alley to Sipple Brothers' market. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sipple were trapped in their apartments over the store. They jumped to the street, and while Sipple escaped with slight bruises both Mrs. Sipple's ankles were fractured. Sipple spread the alarm but the one company in the local fire department soon found itself helpless and a call for aid was sent to Liberty and Livingston Manor. In the meantime the fire had spread to a hardware store, the Faubel Hotel, where guests were driven to the street in their night clothes, the Vorhees department store and Albee Brothers' jewelry. The arrival of the firemen from other towns checked the blaze for a time, but the water in the small town reservoir failed at a critical time and for several minutes the firemen were forced to stand by while the fire gained headway. Before the water pressure was again strong enough other buildings were destroyed, among them the First National Bank, the Beaver-Kill Hotel, the Criterion Theatre, Bennett Brothers' drug store, Butler's five and ten cent store, Porter's barber shop, Wood's livery, Heller's warehouse and the residence of James Fitzgerald. Three hundred men working in lines aided the firemen as bucket brigades and many of them were injured by falling walls and flying sparks. Among the most seriously hurt were Herman Huttler, Kenneth Sprague, son of a prominent merchant, and Carl Bent. No one was fatally injured. Several New Yorkers who were on a hunting trip were slightly injured in getting from the Beaver-Kill Hotel, where they were guests. Electric lights in the town and for miles around went out. The Liberty and Livingston Manor fire companies had to make the trip on darkened roads and were delayed almost half an hour. CZAR LOSES 2,128,474 MEN --- Berlin Names Figures as Casualties Since June 1, 1916 BERLIN, Nov. 20-According to the Central Identification Office at Kieff, Russia, says the Overseas News Agency, the number of Russian casualties since June 1, 1916 has reached 100,621 officers and 2,027,853 men Among the soldiers who recently who recently have fallen, according to the same source, are one General of Brigade, four Colonels and four Lieutenant Colonels. --- Woman Flyer Who Breaks Record Of U.S. in Cross Country Flight [[picture]] RUTH LAW Power's Engraving Co. [[picture]] IN HER AEROPLANE --- TEUTON DIPLOMATS ORDERED FROM GREECE --- Despatch from Athens Says French Admiral Has Set Wednesday as the Dale. LONDON. Nov. 20-An Athens despatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company says the German, Austo-Hungarian, Bulgarian, and Turkish Ministers to Greece have been informed by Vice Admiral Du Fournet, commander of the Allied fleet, that they must depart from Greece by Wednesday. --- BRITISH WAR WIDOWS AS WIVES OF CANADIANS --- Plan to Have Women Emigrate So Employment Ranks May Be Open to Men Returning From War Chicago, Nov. 20-Thousands of British war widows and their children are to be transported to Canada with the expection that many of the women will be married to Canadian farmers, according to plans outlined here to-day by David Lamb of London, Commissioner of the International Emigration Society of the Salvation Army. Commissioner Lamb, who has made a tour of Canada, said he had received assurances of the support of the plan from both the Canadian and the British Governments. "At the close of the war," he said, "men will return from trenches, expection, with reason, that their old positions, now filled by women, will be open to them. But women, especially widows with children, will not willingly give them up." --- Hunt Youth Who Killed Mother. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. 20-A posse is searching to-day for Fred Larson, nineteen year old, charged with matricide. As his sixty-year-old mother was sitting down to Sunday evening supper, Fred, it is alleged, crushed her skull with a hammer. Then he escaped into Minnehaha Falls Park. Neighbors say that for a year he has had a delusion that his mother sought to harm him. Instead she steadily refused to have him taken to an asylum. --- CONGRESSMAN WILL GO TO CAPITAL IN AIRPLANE --- Blakely Will Fly From His Home in Pennsylvania to City of Washington. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 20-A. J. Macy was called to the telephone in his CHicago office Saturday. "Hello!" came a voice. "This is Congressman-elect Bleakly of Franklin Pa. I want you to bring be an airplane. No! no! not a taxi-an airplane. I want to go from my native State to Washington." In this way the newly elected Congressman from Venango Country declared his purpose to fly to Congress. Mr. Macy, who is chief engineer of the Macy Engineering Company, wired yesterday to Sergt. Ocker, who bought an aircraft from Mineola to Philadelph'a on Thursday. Ocker will transport Mr. Bleakley from Philadelphia to Washington by sky route to-day. --- Four More Steamers Sunk: Two of Them Are British. LONDON, Nov. 20-Lloyd's Shipping Agency to-day reported the sinking of two British steamships , the Lady Carrington, 3,920 tons, and the Vasco, 1,914 tons. The Portuguese steamer Sannicola and the Italian steamer Lela, 2,987 tons, also have been sunk. --- Twirler Prengast of Cuba Held Up. ..AURORA, III., Nov. 20-Having gazed down the barrels of a brace of guns, Mike Prendergast, Cub pitcher, feels greatly relieved to-day. He was relieved of his watch and money by two motorcycle robbers last night. --- SAILING TO-DAY --- America, Genoa..............11 A.M. Andania, Liverpool...........4 P.M. --- CRAFT SINKS IN EAST RIVER; TWO BODIES NOT RECOVERED FIFTH VICTIM REPORTED DYING --- Four Men Injured When Rambler Goes Down Following Accident. Victims May Have Been Carried to Bottom of the River. --- FORCE OF THE BLAST FELT ON OTHER BOAT --- Two men were killed outright, two are believed to have drowned and four others were injured, one probably fatally, when the Rambler of the Russell Towing Company of Long Island City, blew up and sank at her pier in the East River at the foot of Commercial Sector Williamsburg, early to-day. The dead are: Capt. Eugene Casey of No. 1048 Putnam Avenue, Brooklyn. Andrew Pitts, engineer, thirty-four, of No. 1165 Manhattan [[?]] Williamsburg. Frederick Zaane and Frank Esterbrook, deckhands, known to been on the tug, are missing. Boatman in the vicinity saw that they undoubtedly went down with the tug and were drowned. The injured are: Jacob Gelaler, deckhand, of North Diamond Street, Williamsburg, obtained a fracture of the skull and interal injuries and was taken to Greenpoint Hospital in a dying condition. Capt. William Miller of the boat William H. Brown, which alongside the Rambler, was known to be taken down by the explosion, cut [[?]] head and body, taken to Greenpoint Hospital. Ludwig Osmond, deckhand, of 163 Third Street, Brooklyn, on another stoneboat, sustained internal injuries was removed to Eastern District Hospital. Thomas Gregory, forty years , of No. 556 Greenwich Street, Manhattan deckhand on the William Browning sustained internal injuries; removed to Greenpoint Hospital. The Rambler was anchored in the midst of a number of boats when the explosion occured. The tug sank a few minutes after the explosion, the report of which was heard clear across the East River. About a foot of the smokestack is visable above the water. The surrounding boats were damaged [[?]] less by the explosion. The explosion is believed to have been caused by too high steam sure. -- SCOW ALMOST DROWNS CAPTAIN AND HIS WIFE -- Capt. Joseph Fleming and his wife Mary, were asleep early to-day in the cabin on top of the scow. [[?]] Freston, moored in Newton [[?]] at Morgan Avenue and Grand Street Brooklyn. Suddenly the scow [[?]] to list and threw the captain and wife out of bed. In a moment the craft turned and went down: The overturn sent the two people into the [[?]]. The screams of Mrs. Fleming are [[?]] Capt. John Redden and three of the scow Mary Ellen, moor nearby. They got out a small boat [[?]] twelve minutes fished Fleming and his wife from the creek. -- PASTOR URGES MEN TO QUIT U.S. ARMY AND ATTACKS FUNSTON -- Dr. Goodchild Says American Government Does Not Deserve Defense. -- "We have at Washington a Government that feels no responsibility for its citizens. When young men of my congregation, now at the border, return, I shall ask them to get out of the army, because I would not fight for a Government that would not protect me." This was one of the things Dr. Frank M. Goodchild, paster of the Central Baptist Church, Amsterdam Avenue and Ninety-second Street, told his congregation last night in his sermon on "The Baptist Church and Gen. Funston." The minister charged that Gen. Funston had set himself up "in the role of religious dictator" to the men on the border and said Congress would be asked to make a thorough investigation of religion and the chaplaincies in the army. "Dr. J. B. Gamebrell of Dallas, Tex., in behalf of the Baptists' of the south, sought an interview with gen. Funston to arrange religious services for the soldiers," said Dr. Goodchild. "Gen. Funston would not see him but said, through his Chief of staff, that he had no objections to Baptists preaching, provided they did not tell the soldiers they were lost. He also said he did not want the men's emotions aroused and did not want a religious revival "By this ruling, Baptist and all other Evangelical preaching is barred. Jesus Christ would not be allowed to preach under Funston's rule. Roman Catholics and Episcopalians, ritual religions, have free access." -- The World Travel Bureau Arcade, Pulitzer (World) Building, 53-63 Park Row, N. Y. City. Tickets, reservations, sailings, &c via [[?]], Coastwise. Central and South America steamship lines. Baggage and parcel checks open day and night. Travellers' checks and orders for sale. Telephone Beekman 800-
