T H E N E W Y O R K H E R A L D . DPlfP • PARIS and FRANCE, 15 Cent ime». r l l i tC • ABROAD, 25 Cent imes. EUROPEAN EDITION—PARIS.—THURSDAY. DECEMBER 11. 1913. NO: 28.234.

ARTICLES A LA PAGE 5.

Chronique artistique de l'hôtel Drouot.

La vie mondaine à Naples. Revue quotidienne de la Bourse de

New York.

NEWS OF TO DAY SUMMARIZED THE WEEK S RACING CALENDAR To-day, Auteuil. Friday, Saint-Ouen. Sunday, Auteuil.

English racing results page 3.

Praulein Muscha Butze, the German actress, died in Berlin, yesterday, aged seventy-three.

The Court of Appeal in London decided yesterday that women, by reason of their sex, are disqualified from acting as solicitors.

The London County Count -"«sterday displayed a notice in its trame> drawing the attention of women passengers to the danger of unguarded hatpins.

It is reported in Constantinople that the Turkish Grand Vizier, who is ill, has resigned. The other members of the

• Cabinet are endeavoring to persuade him to modify his decision.

An employé of the Hotel Ritz, Paris, yesterday, inadvertently became cauglit by the counterpoise of one of the lifts at the hotel, and the fire brigade had to be called to extricate him. He was found to be slightly injured.

After being shadowed by detectives for two months, a gang of thieves who operated in big Paris shops while, the afternoon crush was at its height was arrested yesterday just after the spoils of the last expedition had been shared out among them.

Suspicions have been aroused that Cordeaux, one of the four men arrested recently in respect of a safe robbery at Bezons, is also implicated, at least to the extent of his knowledge of the author of the crime, in the murder some time ago of a policeman at Chartres.

Considerable emotion was caused out­side the Gare du Nord, Brussels, yester­day. by a revolver affray between two passengers, one of whom shot the other dead, apparently in self-defeuce. Both men are believed to have been apaches uTio had fled from justice to the Belgian capital,

Bound for Mauritius, the Union-Castle liner Com rie Castle, of 5,173 tons, with 250 troops on board, went ashore nea;' Beira, in Portuguese East Africa, about 850 miles from Durban. Accord-ins; to a telegram from Durban to the '.'Daily Mail," she was got off un­damaged.

On alighting at the Saint-Georges sta­tion on the Paris Metropolitan Railway yesterday, Mme. Griffon, living at 1 avenue Alpliand, Paris, discovered that two bracelets she had been wearing, valued at 6,000fr., had disappeared. She believes they were cleverly stolen by two fellow-passengers.

Genera] von Falkenhayn, the* German Minister of War, .again referred to the recent incidents at Saverno in the Reichstag yesterday, declaring that' the attacks on the army were unfounded. His speech was repeatedly interrupted,-and at one point some minutes elapsed before he could obtain a hearing.

Alarm was caused yesterday on the Royal yacht 'Alexandra, lying alongside Portsmouth dockyard, by the discovery that stime woodwork in the captain's sleeping cabin was on fire. The crew were turned out, and thé doekard police fire brigade were summoned. The flames, however, were extinguished by means of buckets of water before much damage had been done.

Considerable disturbance was created in the Austrian Reichsrat yesterday by the Ruthenian deputies, who succeeded in preventing the transaction of busi­ness for nearly an hour. Whistles, trum­pets, automobile hooters, and sirens were blown, -while other deputies vigor­ously banged their desks. The sitting had to be suspended and was only re­sumed after the party leaders had come to ar agreement that it should be re­sumed.

Awakened by hearing the report of firearms in the woods of Sernève, his estate at Ma rche-cn-F arenne, near Liège, M. Léon de Maux aroused his two gamekeepers and went with them to the spot from which the sound came-On reaching the wood, he and the two keepers were fired upon by a band of poache; s, and an affray ensued, in which M. de Maux and one of the poachers were shot dead and another poacher seriously wounded

Dr. Henri Simon, director of the radio­graphic department of the Swiss Na­tional. Hospital at Geneva, has died of radiodermitis, or inflammation of the skin brought on by exposure to X rays. In spite of three successive amputa­tions, first of several fingers., of the left hand, then of the hand itself, and finally of the arm, all efforts to arrest the pro­gress of the disease were fruitless. Dr. Simon, who was forty-five years of age, insisted on remaining at his work up to the time of his death.

Three youths attacked a banker's mes­senger in the rue Pelleport, Paris, yes­terday. One of them threw pepper in his eyes, while another struck him a blow on the head with a spanner and the third stabbed him several times with a long knife. At the same time they attempted to snatch his satchel, which contained a large sum of money, but were unable to do so, as it was secured to the messenger's body by a chain. The cries of the wounded man attracted a policeman, at the sight of whom the youths made off.

Financial requirements have obliged the executors of the Royal Female Orphan Asylum, at Beddïngton, near Croydon, to dispose of the, fine pair of old hammered iron gates which have stood at the entrance to the institution for the last two hundred years. The purchaser, an American, paid a sum of £700 for them aud another pair which stood at the back of the asylum. He also undertook to replace them by a replica. The gates, which are believed by experts to be of Sussex wood-smelted iron, contain some exceptionally fine scroll and decorative work. They will shortly be removed to the United States.

ANNULS ELECTIONS Consultation of Country Ordered by

General Huerta Is Declared to Be Unconstitutional.

VOTE IS UNANIMOUS ONE.

Assembly Afterwards Proclaims Dic­tator Provisional President Pend­

ing New Elections in July.

rSPECIAL TO THE HERALD.] MEXICO CITY, Wednesday.—Congress

to-day declared null and void the recent elections which made General Huerta President of Mexico. Senor Jose Lopez Moctezuina presided over the Assembly. The vote of 156 was unanimous, ten Gatholic members leaving before the roll was called.

The reason given for the annulment of the elections is that they were unconsti­tutional, because out of 14,420 districts only 7,167 voted, or less than one-half the number demanded by the Constitu­tion. The next elections will be held on the first Sunday of July next year.

It was suggested in Congress that General Huerta should be proclaimed interim President without a vote, but the Speaker declared this unconstitu­tional, On a vote being taken General Huerta was declared President.

Correspondent Not Threatened. FBY COMMERCIAL CABLE TO THE HERALD.] NEW YORK, Wednesday.—"With regard

to a reported threat to. throw the HERALD'S correspondent in Mexico City into prison for refusing to divulge to the Mexican authorities the name of his informant in the statement that the Powers, through the medium of the Mexican Minister at The Hague, had offered to help in solving the Mexican problem, Senor Mobeno, Mexican Min­ister of Foreign Affairs, cables that no such intention exists and that he ap­proves the stand taken by the corre­spondent.

JUDGMENT AGAINST BANKERS IN NEW YORK IS OVERRULED.

NEW YORK, Wednesday.—Judge Ro­gers, of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, yesterday reversed the judg­ment for, $7,500 directed by Judge Holt, in the Federal District Court, in favor of Messrs. Hannay and Co., cotton mer­chants of Liverpool, and against the Guaranty Trust Company.

The judgment now set aside, was ren­dered in the first of a series of . test'suits by which it was sought to fix liability upon New York banking houses fbr the forged cotton bills of lading which they discounted for Knight. Yancey and Co.. of Decatur, Ala., and Steele, Miller and Co., of Cdriiith, Mo.; before the failure of th'ose firms in 1910.- Judge • Rogers' ruling practically "quashes the litigation involving a sum of -nearly 85,000,000'.— Daily Telegraph.

MAKES SPEECH BY TELEPHONE.

WASHINGTON, Wednesday. — President Wilson, being unable to leave . Washing­ton, utilized the telephone to address tho Rochester. N.Y., Chamber of Com­merce last night. The occasion was the annual banquet of the chamber, and some time ago the President promised to attend if possible.

He was, however, unable to make the 800-mile journey to Rochester, and a special telephone on the electrophone principle was fitted up at the White House and at Rochester. Each of the 300 guests at the Chamber of Commerce banquet was provided with a headpiece receiver. The experiment was a great success.—Daily Chronicle.

"SEND ME TO ELECTRIC CHAIR."

NEW YORK, Wednesday.—The trial of Father Schmidt for the murder of the girl Anna Aumuller is remarkable be­cause the priest absolutely refuses to assist or confer with the formidable bat­talion of expensive counsel retained for him by his friends.

He displays about as much concern in the hearing as a seasoned court at­tendant.

"Send me to the electric chair," he has muttered several times; "I have done with this tomfoolery." — Daily Telegraph.

POLICE ARREST ACTORS.

NEW YORK, Wednesday.—The police last night made a raid on a suburban theatre where a drama dealing with the "white slave" trade was being per­formed and arrested the leading lady, the manager and other members of the company.

The play was based on Mr. Kaufman's book, "The House of Bondage," which is known in England under the title "Daughters of Ishmael."

The arrested players were taken im­mediately to a night court, many of them being still in their stage attire, and after formal proceedings the case was adjourned until this afternoon. — Evening Standard.

ADMIREËT SHOOTS CHORUS GIRL.

NEW YORK, Wednesday. — A jealous admirer of a chorus girl named Flora Belmont intruded on a party of four dining in a Brooklyn restaurant last night, and shot her in the cheek.

Miss Belmont will be disfigured for life if she recovers.—Daily Mail.

STRAUSS OPERA IS CRITICIZED.

NEW YORK, Wednesday. — The first performance in this country of Richard Strauss' opera, "Der Rosenkavalier," was given last night at the Metropoli­tan Opera House before an audience of 12,000 persons, the majority of whom had paid at . least FLO for their tickets.

The opera has been somewhat coldly received by the critics. They admit that the production is beautiful, but, although the piece has been much toned down, its morality is still adversely cri­ticized. The New York "Tribune" goes so far as to characterize it as "vapid and salacious."—Evening Standard..

Prospects for Season on the Riviera Are Excellent; Many Villas Are Taken at Beaulieu and Cap Ferrat

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'Herald" Correspondent, Who Makes Run Along Coast, Finds Anima­

tion Rapidly Growing.

[FROM TIIE HERALD'S CORRESPONDENT.] MONTE CARLO, Tuesday.—Another sud­

den and complete change in the weather was an agreeable surprise this morning, when the sun beamed down from a cloud­less sky, and the sea, which yesterday was gray and rough, was smooth and brilliantly blue.

The prospects for the season at Monte Carlo seem excellent, but wishing to know how the rest of the coast was faring, I went to Beaulieu and Saint-Jean yesterday to see what was going on there.

At the former place many of the villas are already taken.

Princess Alexander of Hohenlolie-Schil-lingsfurst has already been for some time at her pretty villa, Belles Fleurs, and will as usual remain for several months.

At Eze, Les Carroubiers, leased to Lady Eva Wemyss for several years, is still vacant, but Lady Cowley is coming in a few days to stop there, a.nd Lady Eva Wemyss will join her early in Janu­ary.

Princess Isenburg-Birstein has taken

the Villa Baratier, at Cap Ferrat, for the season, and her mother, Mrs. Mason, will be there part of the winter.

Many Villas Already Let.

Inquiring at Kurz' House Agency, at Beaulieu, I found that quite a number of villas have been let. Among them are the Villa Trianon, which has been taken for the season by Mr. Ivan Caryll. Comtesse de Merode-Westerloo has the Villa Ginette. M. Pierre de La Tour Saint-Ygest lias La Vigie, at Cap Ferrat, the round white villa not far from Mary­land. Mrs. Arthur Wilson is coming to Maryland directly after Christmas. Miss Muriel Wilson will be there a little later in the season, as she is going to Canada to visit the Duke and Duchess of Con-naught in January.

The Villa Sylvia, another of the show places of the Riviera, has been open for some time, and Mr. and Mrs. Curtis and their children will probably bo there four or five months.

M. and Mme. Claeyssens are at the Villa Eugenie. M. Octave Henry, of Brussels, has taken the Villa Marie-Georges, at Saint-Jean. M. and Mme. Nullot have the Villa Batavia.

La Bastide, which belongs to Lord Salisbury, has been let to Mr. Douglas Fletcher.

Princess Galitzin is at the Villa Le Rêve, and among others at Beaulieu for the season are: Mr. F. Wilson, at the Villa Graziella; M. Mazard, at Les

Pins; M. and Mme. Rocquigny, at the Villa Germaint-Rosine ; M. Julliard, at the Villa Speranza ; M. Philipps, at the Villa Gracia; M. Lannay, at Les Lotus; Mme. Quévreux, at Les Mandarines, and M. and Mme. Goscicky, at the Villa Myosotis.

Sir Henry and Lady Samuelson have not yet opened their villa, La Mon­tagne, but they usually come out rather early and may be expected any day now.

M. and Mme. de Markiewicz have ta­ken the Villa Perle Blanche, at Cap D'Ail, for the season. Among the villas still to be had, and at very reasonable prices, M. Roustan, the agent, tells me, are the villas Lumière, Les Mimosas, Catiche, Marcelle and Les Coccinelles.

Kurz' House Agency has also still a number at Beaulieu to be let at all kinds of prices, ranging from l,800fr. to 10,-OOOfr.— Les Bambous, Les Palmiers, Les Orangers, Les Cyclamens, Villa Carmen, Villa Madeleine, Villa Martine, Villa Manon, Villa Magda, Villa Mon Désir, Villa Belle Etoile, etc.—but they are fast being taken, and the prospects are excellent for the coming season.

Queen Mother of Italy Buys Villa. BORDIGHERA, Wednesday.—The Queen

Mother of Italy has purchased the Villa Etelinda at Bordighera, on the Italian Riviera, from Lady Strathmore for 500,000 lire. Queen Margherita intends to make it her winter residence.—Fi­garo.

in. corner UY HE MM TO FRANCE

New York "Evening Post" Says Pre-. sident Wilson Has Decided on Mr.

• Herrick's Successor.

.NEW YORK, Wednesday.—The New York : "Evening , Post" says that Mr. Frederick Couder,t has been chosen by President Wilson as United States Am­bassador to France in succession to Mr. Myron T. Herrick.—Reuter.

Mr. Coudert is a New York lawyer, who was.born in that city in 1871. H© was graduated from Columbia Univer­sity in 1890, and. was admitted to the Bar in. 1802-

He is a director of the Federation of French Alliances in the United States and a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.

CUSTOMS MEN WOULD LEVY DUTY ON DICKENS' HAIR.

Contention That It Is an Antiquity More Than 100 Years Old Is

Disputed.

NEW YORK,* Wednesday. — The New York Customs officials and Mr. Arthur Brentano, head of the bookselling firm, are at odds over the duty to be paid on a consignment from London of first edi­tions of Dickens, Thackeray and other authors, together with a lock of Charles Dickens' hair, which was recently sold by auction for $200. Mr. Brentano said he did not order the hair and wished to pay duty only on the books.

The Customs officials contend that Mr. Brentano must take all or nothing.

It is thought here by some authorities that Dickens' hair should be admitted free of duty ̂ because it is 100 years old and comes under the heading of antiqui­ties. The Customs men admit that Dickens was born in i«12, more than 100 years ago, but deny that the hair now held by the Appraiser's Stores here could have been cut from the famous author's head when he was a year old.— Daily Telegraph.

OIL COMPANIES CONFER.

BUCAREST, Wednesday.—Representa­tives of all the leading oil companies in Roumania met yesterday at a : con­ference presided over by the Minister of Commerce to, consider the foundation at Bucarest of an international oil insti­tute for the phrpose of studying refin­ing processes, analyses, the utilization of residues, methods of sale, etc., and to make the quality of Roumanian petro­leum known to the world's markets.

Of the 180,000fr. required to found the institute, the oil companies will sub­scribe lOOjOOOfr. and the Roumanian Government the remainder.

The conference will meet again on Saturday next.—Temps.

RUN ON BANK UNJUSTIFIED.

SENATOR RIOT GETS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

He Is Second American to Receive Award, President Roosevelt Hav­

ing Had It in 1906.

CHRISTIANIA, Wednesday. — The Nobel Peace Prize for, 1912 was awarded this afternoon at the Nobel Institute to Mr.

SENATOR ELIHU ROOÏ. Elihu Root, United States Senator for New York.

The prize for 1913 was bestowed upon the Belgian Senator and president of the Permanent Peace Bureau at Berne, M. Henri Lafontaine.

The secretary of the committee, in a report read to the audience, emphasized the importance of Mr. Root's work for the pacification of the Philippines and Cuba, and the part taken by him in the negotiations between the United States and Japan and in the discussion of the Panama tolls question.

Representatives of tho Storthing, the Government and the Diplomatic Corps were present at the ceremony.—Morning Post.

MADRID, Wednesday.—In consequence of a rumor that the Madrid Hispano-American Bank had sustained losses in Argentine and Mexican values, there was a big run on the bank, and 15,000,-000 pesetas in cash was paid out.

The bank, whose capital is £4,000,000, anounces that payments will continue to be made to-morrow.

It is authoritatively stated that the rumor is completely false. — Exchange Telegraph Company,

Senator Root is the second American to receive this distinction, it having been awarded to President Roosevelt in 1906 for his efforts toward ending the Russo-Japanese war.

Born at Clinton. N.Y. in 1845, gra­duated from Hamilton College in 1864, and admitted to the New York bar in 1867, Senator Root has had a long ca­reer in public life. Ho was Secretary of War in the Cabinet of IPresident Mc-;Kinley. and Secretary of State under President Roosevelt. While holding the latter office he made a memorable trip through the Republics of South Ame­rica.

Mr. Root was a member of the Alas­kan Boundary Tribunal in 1903, and was counsel for the United States in the North Atlantic Fisheries Arbitration in 1910. He was made a member of the Permanent court of Arbitration at The Hague in 1910, and in the same year was elected president of the Carnegie Endowmènt for International Peace.

Senator Root visited England last sum­mer to attend the meeting of the Insti­tution of Internationa] Law, to which body the Nobel Peace Prize was award­ed in 1904.

Mr. Root was president of the Union League Club (New York) in 1898-9 and of the New York City Bar Association in 1904-5. He was elected president of the American Society of International Law in 1906 and of the New York State Bar Association in 1910.

PRINCESS IS ENDED Court Rejects Claim for Debt Against

Princess Louise of Belgium, But Upholds Validity of Contract.

' rSPECIAL ÏO THE HERALD.J

BRUSSELS, Wednesday—Judgment was delivered to-dav in the lawsuit brought by Fra'u. Anna Stevenson, wife of Herr Adalbert Schneeinann, against Princess Louise' of Belgium for recovery of an alleged debt of five million marks.

The Court rejected the'claim for the payment of three million marks based on a comparatively small, loan, which counsel for the princess contended had already been handsomely repaid. But, contrary to all expectation, the judg­ment renders valid in Belgium the con­tract under German law by which Prin­cess Louise agreed to purchase the villa at Aix-la-Chapolle for upward of 1,300,-000 marks.

As a consequence, fresh proceedings will' be instituted immediately, and the princess must prove her contention that the contract was really a bogus ojie and that she never actually bought the Aix-la-Chapelle villa. Another result will be that, pending these proceedings, the general settlement with her creditors that Princess Louise hoped to arrange will suffer postponement, or possibly

YOUNG ENGLISHWOMAN DISAPPEARS IN ROME.

Miss Sarah Horwold, Teacher of Languages, Leaves Her Lodgings

and Is Not Seen Again.

RSPECIAL TO THE HERALD.] HOME, Wednesday.—Miss Sarah Hor­

wold, aged twenty-one, of Hovingham, near Pickering, Yorkshire, a teacher of English at tho Meschini Institute in Rome, left her lodgings yesterday morn­ing with only two francs in her pockets and has not. been seen since, despite diligent search by the police.

Miss Horwold's landlady states that tho young woman's conduct was exem­plary, but that lately she had been tor­mented by the idea of suicide.

MR. S. F. EDGE CROSS-EXAMINED.

TBY THE HERALD'S SPECIAL WIRE.] LONDON., Thursday.—The business re­

lations of Mi-. S. F. Edge, the well-known automobilist, and Messrs. D. Na­pier and Sons, Ltd., the makers of the Napier automobiles, occupied the atten­tion of the Lord Chief Justice and a special jury in the King's Bench Divi­sion yesterday'.

The Court was asked to construe an agreement by which Mr. Edge agreed to sell to Napier's his'shares in S. F. Edge, Ltd., who had been for some years the sole agents for Napier automobiles. The material point at issue was whether Mr. Edge was entitled under that agree­ment to continue and extend his interest in other firms, which he contends are non-competitive with the Napier Com­pany.

Mr. Edge, cross-examined, said he thought he was entitled to ask for the alteration of an agreement which he had signed, and on which Messrs. Napier had paid out £162,000.

The hearing was adjourned,

CABINET BEATEN AT Full Results of General Election Show

Strong Movement Against the Government.

SOCIALIST GAINS ARE MANY.

Ministry May Try to Retain Power by Alliance With One of Op­

position Groups.

SOFIA, Wednesday.—All the results of the elections for the Sobranje are now known, and they show that M. Rados-lavoff's Ministry, instead of obtaining a big majority, as it expected, has been defeated. , The Ministerial candidates obtained 95 seats and the Opposition 108. The Opposition seats are distri­buted as follows. Agrarians 48, So­cialists 35, Democrats 14, Radical Demo­crats 5, M. Gueclioff's party 5, Pro­gressives 1. MM. Malinoff, Daneff and Gueehoff have been re-elected.

The anti-Governmental movement was strongest in the north of Bulgaria and particularly in the Departments of Plevna and Tirnovo. The Greek popu­lation, in Black Sea ports voted solid for the Socialists. The organ of the Social­ist party declares that the result of the election means the defeat of the bour­geoisie and the Bulgarian Monarchy.

It is not yet known what attitude tho Cabinet will adopt. In certain quarters it is stated that it will not re­sign, but will try to obtain the support of one of the Opposition groups by re­constructing the Ministry and offering portfolios to its allies.

As soon as the Chamber meets, the Government will ask it to vote a bill sending before the Supreme Court MM. Daneff and Gueehoff. M. Gueehoff is ac­cused of high treason in signing with Servi a a treaty which entailed the loss of the whole of Macedonia to Bulgaria. M. Daneff is accused of the same crime by granting Russia the right to dispose of Bulgarian territory.

It is stated that when the new Cham­ber meets King Ferdinand will leave for a holiday abroad.—Temps.

UNION OF CRETE TO GREECE.

ATHENS, Wednesday.—The Greek fleet is about to leave for Crete, where M. Rouffos, the new Governor, will officially proclaim the union of the island to the Kingdom of Greece.

The Cretans will have the satisfaction of seeing the flagship Giorgios Averoff salute the Greek flag as it is hoisted over the fortress of Canea, where four years ago the sailors of the protecting Powers were obliged to lower it.

COUNTESS 0E WARWICK'S HORSES LEGALLY SEIZED.

Mr: Justice Channell Decides That Mr. Gerald Lousada's Claim to Them

Is Unfounded.

TBY THE HERALD'S SPECIAL WIRE.] LONDON, Thursday.—The Countess of

Warwick was mentioned yesterday in a case in the King's Bench Division aris­ing out of the seizure of some horses and pigs, the claimant being Mr. Gerald Lousada, of Easton Lodge, Dunmow, The animals were seized at the instance of Mr. A. G. Paine, of the Windsor Castle Public House, Victoria Station, who,it was stated, had obtained judgment sigainst the countess, and Mr. Lousada pleaded that the animals seized were his property.

Counsel for Mr. Lousada said that Lady Warwick had for some time been in such a position that she was unable to train her horses in a very large way. She arranged with Mr. Lousada that he was to have the use of the stables at Easton Lodge, and that he should be paid for what he did in looking after the horses belonging to the countess.

Mr. Lousada, giving evidence, said he had received £300 a year for looking after Lady Warwick's horses, and he kept as many of his own as he liked at her stables. When cross-examined, wit­ness said that whenever an execution was put in he had claimed all the horses. The countess had no horses for the last year or more.

Mr. Justice Channell, in giving judg­ment, said he did not like to say that the evidence was false. The story of the arrangement was an impossible one and ought to have been confirmed by Lady Warwick. He allowed the claim in regard to three horses entrusted to Mr. Lousada by two men, also with re­gard to an automobile and the pigs, but disallowed it in regard to the remain­ing five horses purchased in Mr. Lou­sada's name.

As each side had substantially suc­ceeded on the issue, the judge allowed no costs on either side.

In the same court, Mr. H. G. Payton, who for sixteen years has been agent of the estates to Lord Warwick, was the claimant in an interpleader issue in re­spect of goods seized at Stone Hall, Essex. Counsel said that the claimant had paid £400 by cheque to Lady War­wick for the goods at Stone Hall, which he took in 1907. The Judge gave judg­ment for the claimant and held that the transaction was a real one. He had not the slightest doubt, he said, that the object was to raise money for Lady War­wick to pay a sum on account to a troublesome creditor.

DAMAGES FOR SEDUCTION.

TBY THE HERALD'S SPECIAL WIRE.] LONDON, Thursday.—Mr. Henry Odart.

an engine-driver, was yesterday awarded in the Law Courts £350 damages against Mr. A. H. Kutemeyer, who practises as a medical man in Quebec street, Marble Arch, for the seduction of his daughter, Miss Edith Odart, a typist, rged eigh­teen.

Miss Odart was employed by Mr. Kute­meyer, who one day invited her to have a. cup of tea. In a few minutes she had a violent headache and felt drowsy. Mr. Kutemeyer advised her to go up to a bedroom and lie down. There she slept for two hours. Next day the same thing happened, and a few days later she was discharged after she had refused to marry the defendant. ,

Subsequently a child was born, and the girl narrowly escaped with her- life.

NEWS ON INSIDE PAGES.

Wall Street is dull, but market holds firm. Page 2.

Court and society news from the British Isles. Page 3.

Visitors continue to throng Paris Aero Salon. Page 3.

The Imperator Establishes a

Unique Record

Hamburg-America Steamship Carried 53,696 Persons in Seven Trips to

America and Return.

TBY THE HERALD'S SPECIAL WIRE.] LONDON, Thursday.—Figures received

at the offices of the Hamburg-America Line here show that the Imperator carried 53,696 persons across the Atlan­tic on her seven trips to America and return, thereby establishing a world's record.

The cabin passengers totalled 22,460, while other passengers numbered 13,089 and the crew 18,147.

Record prices for accommodations were paid, some Americans giving up­ward of $2,000 for a single stateroom.

It is announced that the Imperator will start on her next trip from Ham­burg on March 11 for New York. She is now at Hamburg, having an improved system of ventilation for her boilers in­stalled and additional cold storage space supplied.

Captain Ruser, commanding the Im­perator, will be transferred to the new Hamburg-America liner Vaterland, which will make her maiden trip next May. The Vaterland, 56,000 tons, will be the largest vessel afloat, eclipsing the Imperator by nearly 4,000 tons. Cap­tain Kier will relieve Captain Ruser iu command of the Imperator.

Another giant liner will be added to the transatlantic service in April, when the Cunard liner Aquitania, 47,000 tons, will start on her maiden voyage.

Echo of P. and O. Strike. [BY THE HERALD'S SPECIAL WIRE.]

LONDON, Thursday. — Sir Thomas Sutherland, at a meeting of the Penin­sular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company yesterday, referred to the re­cent strike trouble.

"We are very familiar indeed," he remarked, "with workmen of low wages throwing down their tools with or with­out good reason, but when officers and gentlemen adopt these trade unionist tactics, leaving their ships at the busiest period of the year, then we find that we have entered on a new age altogether."

ENTERTAIN M. ANATOLE FRANCE

TBY THE HERALD'S SPECIAL WIRE.] LONDON, Thursday. — M. Anatole

France, the novelist, who is at present on a visit to England, was entertained at dinner last evening by a number of English men of letters at the Savov Hotel. Lord Redesdale presided and there was a large attendance.

In responding to the toast of bis health, proposed by the chairman, M. Anatole France paid a high tribute to England and particularly to its great novelists.

CARPENTIER IS ACCLAIMED ON HIS RETURN TO PARIS.

Young Frenchman Who Knocked Out British Champion Receives Ova­

tion from Compatriots.

Georges Carpentier, the heavyweight boxing champion of Europe, returned from London yesterday and was wel­comed by an enthusiastic and dense crowd upon his arrival by the boat train from Calais at tho Gare du Nord, Paris.

Carpentier, who was accompanied by his manager, M. Descamps, was only recognized by a few of those present at Victoria Station, when he left London in the morning. Even so, however, it was impossible for the man who knocked out the British heavyweight, Bombar­dier Wells, in seventy-three seconds at the National Sporting Club on Monday, to escape the homage of some hero worshippers, who "Cheered him to the echo as the train left the station.

If bis send-off was a hearty one it may well be imagined that his reception by his fellow countsymen in Paris was no less enthusiastic. Indeed, long before the train from Calais was signalled a crowd of about a thousand persons, with difficulty controlled by a reinforced staff of officials and police, thronged the plat­forms of the Gare du Nord.

No sooner had the train arrived at 6.20 p.m. than the young boxer sprang from his carriage, followed by his trainer. A number of officials pressed upon him to shake his hand, and he was presented with a bouquet of hothouse flowers. The crowd acclaimed him with volleys of cheering. After some little time Carpentier managed to get away from his admirers and left the station in an automobile.

Carpentier's sojourn in Paris will not he a long one, for on December 27 ho intends to second his compatriot, Charles Ledoux, for the latter's match against "Bill" Benyon, at Cardiff. On January 15 Carpentier will again enter the ring, as he has promised to box an exhibition bout with Adrien Hogan on the occasion of Mr. Bettinson's benefit in London.

Tho young boxer's next real match, however, will probably be with "Gun­boat" Smith, whose challenge M. Des­camps is believed to have accepted on Carpentier's behalf. The young French­man has expressed his readiness to meet Smith and made a statement to this effect immediately after the fight on Monday night.

BICYCLISTS DO 1,056 MILES.

NEW YORK, Wednesday.—At three o'clock this morning the twelve leaders in the six-day bicycle race now proceed­ing at Madison Square Garden had cov­ered 1,056 miles 6 laps, being 1 mile 8 laps behind the record. The Clarke-Grenda and W&lker-Corry combinations are a lap behind, while Dophky and Keefe are six laps behind.—Reuter.