New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 25, 1914, Page 1

w|HERALD BEST OF ALL 'LOCAL NEWSPAPERS NEW BRITAIN HERALD HERALD “ADS” MEA BETTER BUSINES PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN, 'CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1914 —TWELVE PAGES. ESTABLISHED 1876. "Namur Falls Before Violent Onslaught of German Forces: Allied Armies Forced to Retreat by Kaiser’s Troops - . Austrian Fortified Port of Cattaro, Dalmatia, Destroyed by Allied Fleet; Germat { Zeppelin Airship Which Flew Over Antwerp Last Night Brought Down by Belgian Artillery Fire at Hemixem; Fierce Fighting at Ostend. tories For Servians and Montene- . grins Over Austrian Troops. AJ Namur, the Belgian fortress, has fallen into German hands, according to an announcement made by the official press bureau, in London. ; Details of the fighting around the fortress were not ‘« given, but the English newspapers regard the fall as inex- plicable. Berlin despatches say five of the forts of Namur:and the city itselt have fallen and the capture of the remaining four forts is imminent. A reverse to the forces of the alties is generally admitted by the English and French newspapers, which say today’s news is “decidedly bad.” While plainly expressing disap- pointment at the failure of their forces, they declare the ret- rograde movement toward the lone of strong defensive works near the frontier to have been carried out in good order. It is assumed that the allies are falling back on their -y first line of defensive works running from {Maubeuge in a southeasterly direction by way of Hiroson, Mezieres, Mont- medy, Verdun, St. Michiel, Toul and Epinal, all of which are strong fortresses and are interspersed with smaller works at such places as Ayvelle, Genicourt, Troyon, Les Paroches, Lianville, Gironville and Jony-Sous-Les-Cotes. Behind these lies anothef$frong line of fortifications from St. Quentin in the north through Laon and Reims to the great entrenched camp of Chalons. The English newspapers declare that both the English v engagement only 1,800 returned. and Russians are determined to “fight to a finish,” whatever the outiook may be at preent. They say the possession of ,+ Namur was vital for Germany and that it “was a fine stroke for the Germans to have rushed the place under the eyes of the allied armies.” In other parts of Belgium fighting is still in progress and a report from Ostend says 30,000 Germans have at- tacked Malines, thirteen miles from Antwerp. Charleroi also has been the scene of hot fighting, this time between the French and German troops, and a fresh encounter is believed to have begun there today. Twenty-five thousand Germans have been surrounded between Courtrai and Anseghem, according to an Ostend despatch to the London Daily Express. Brussels has been left by the main body of German troops, who have proceeded on their way to the front. Russian reports relate the advance of the Russian armies in eastern Prussia and the surprisingly rapid move- ment of the troops. Russian officials however, caution against feeling too great elation over the preliminary suc- cesses, pointing out that the German territory about the . Vistula is strongly fortified along the line of the Russian forward march. Newspaper despatches assert that the Austrian fortified port of Cattaro, Dalmatia, has been destroyed by the allied fleets. Despatches from the Servian provisional capital, Nish, < record the victorious offensive movement of the Servians and Montenegrins against the Austrians, who are; said to have suffered very severely: A Swiss business man reports the garrison of Strass- burg to have sustained an appalling total of casualties at Schirmeck where of 5,500 Germans who went into the A German dirigible balloon which had flown over Ant- werp yesterday was brought down by Be}guan artillery to- day and fifteen of its occupants taken prisoners, according to a newspaper despatch. Another telegram says "ombs | dropped from the balioon =aused several deaths and-one of the missiles struck a hospital which, however, was occupied | iy ry the nedical and nursing staff. of its forts have peen captured by the Germans. The bombardment of the four other forts continues, and their fall seems imminent. City and Five Forts Captured By Germans Berlin, Aug. 25, (by wireless tele- . sraphy to the Associated Press, by way of Nauen, Germany and Say- Onslaught of Germans rille, Long Island).—An official a « Namur Falls Before TWOUNDED BELGIAN These pictures are among the first to reach America from Brussels, Bel- gium, since the war began. One of them shows a scene in a ward in St Jean hospital, with Red Cross nurses attending wounded Belgian soldiers. A Belgian officer is inquiring as to the condition of the men. Hundreds are being cared for in this institution. The other picture shows the line of the government. The women are paid Despatches From Nish Report ViC-‘]fimssels Wounded in fidkfital: “Bread Line” SOLDIERS IN STJEAN HOSPITAL BRUSSELS:} o 2 SOLDIERS WIVES DRAWING 507065 CENTIMES(AB\})UT wives of soldiers who went off to war walting for the daily payment of 50 to 65 centimes (about 10 cents) from TEN CENTS) A DA 3 PHOTOS ©)1914 AMERICAN PRESS ASSH this amount to help keep them in food while the men are away fighting. It is the “‘bread line” of war. of Namur, 34 miles southeast Brusseis, and strongly fortified, fallen before the Germans. The fortifications of Namur and Liege formed the finest examples of the work of the famous Belgian mil- itary engineer, Gen. Henri Alexis Brial- mont. The defensive works of Na- mur were not so strong as those of Liege, but the position of the city was much better for military pur- poses. The forts are nine in number, the four most important being St. Heri- bert, Audoye, Suarlee and Cognelee, while the connecting forts of less strength are Dave, Maizeret, Malonne, Marchevolette and Emines. All are protected by hardened-steel domes, generally eight of them in each fort, and the artillery consist- ing of modern heavy disappearing guns is very powerful. War Bureau Announces Fall of Stronghold P of has London, Aug. 25, 8:52 M.—The official war information bureau s announced that Namur has It is not yet known definitely here whether the fall vefers to the town or the forts or to both, The above despatch’as indicated was filed in London at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon and received in New York at 6:10 o'clock this (Tues- day) morning. Its transmission was probably delayed by the censor German Zeppelin Airship Brought Down By Belgians London, Aug. 25, 1:30 P, M.—The correspondent at Antwerp of the jouncement made public here today London, Aug. It is announced reys that the city of Namur and five that Namur, capital of the Province Evening News telegraphs that a Zep- pelin airship, which flew over Ant- werp last night, was brought down by Belgian artlllery fire at Hemixem, six miles outside of Antwerp. The crew of fifteen men were taken pris- oners. This despatch evidently refers to the same airship reported earlier in the day from Antwerp as having flown over the city last night. Another despatch from Antwerp says this Zeppelin, before it was brought to earth, succeeded in drop- ping seven or eight bombs into Ant- werp. One of the houses wrecked by these missiles was situated only 300 yards from the palace of King Al- bert. Seven persoons were killed and six serfously injured by this explo- sion. Some other houses were half demolished by the falling bombs, One bomb partly wrecked the hos- pital of Saint Elizabeth, but fortu- nately there were no patients in the buflding. The explosions threw the inhabitants of Antwerp into a con- dition of semi-panic. There is intense indignation In Antwerp at the attack upon the hos- pital, which was flying the Red Cross flag. German Forces Resume Offensive Movement 3:05 p. m.—The fol- announcement was “The German lowing made here today. { offensive movement in the north, which was stopped yesterday, appears to have been resumed. e enemy 1s, however, being held WEATHER. S / Hartford, Aug. ~Fair tonight, Wednesday unsettied. l A e e e e e N back by a French army acting in con- Junction with an English army and a Belgian army.” “The armies of the allies surprised the enemy and drove back their ad- vance detachments. The allies have gone beyond Malines. “The Belgian army came from ! Antwerp.” “In Lorraine, after the counter at- tacks of yesterday, the right of the French forces withdrew to the river Mortagne, which is a continuation of Meurthe, from Luneville to Nancy. “In Alsace French troops repulsed a number of German attacks directed against Colmar, “The report of the recapture of Muelhausen by the Germans is with- out foundation, Moreover the theater of operations in Alsace is becoming of secondary importance.” Orders Ausirian Capital in State of Defense Paris, Fournler's agency despatch from Rome says that an offi message from Vienna states that Emperor Francis Joseph has signed a decree ordering the capital to be put in a state of defen: T elers from Trieste state the Austrians are concentrating . for the defense of the Adriatic at Pola and Sevenice. The population of the latter have been sent inland. All the Austrian fleet has been assembled in the Fasana canal at Pola Allied Fleet Destroys Cattaro Fortifications Milan, Via Pn:s, Aug. 25, 5:10 A, M.—A news despatch from Cattaro says that all of the fortifications that IConcentric Advance Of All Germa Armies Toward Paris Is Probable, States DespatchTo Washington. was killed. The Austrians destro cur quay at Tekia." Servia Prou;sts Austria’s Order to Burn Cre there have been destroyed by the al- | lied fleet. The Austrians did not have | time before the attack to strew the Gulf of Cattaro with mines, Austrian Commander Willing to Surrender | raris. aus. 25. via London, 1 = p. m.—That Servia is preparing wage a war of no quarter to her e mies is indicated in a note sent Servia to the French governmi j protesting against the alleged ord {from the headquarters of the A trian army to burn Servian crops a fire Servian villages all along t Austrian line of march This note says further that view of Austriun cruelties to Sery troops it will be very difficult to strain the Servians from measures e revenge and that the Servian govi N R g ment finds itself constrained t Firece Fighting on Lail measures of repeias). ool Outskirts of Ostend | with international law. via London, 3:10 | p. m.—A despatch to the Corriere D'Italia from Antivari, Montenegro, says the fortifications of Cattaro, the Austrian seaport in Dalmatia, on the Adriatic, have been completely de- { stroyed and that the Austrian com- mander is now parleying for terms of surrender, The bombardment of Cattaro was conducted by a fleet of the allles, Rome, Aug. 25, Concentric Advance on Paris Is Prob Washington, Aug. 25.— Ao advance of all “he German armies i ward Parig is probable; the Semo en- | river, Longwy and the greater | of the Belgian-French frontier be in German hands, according to a wi less despatch to the German emb rom its foreign office received to dla Sayville, L. I It says: ““The Gi London, Aug. 25, 3:25 p. m.—A de- gpatch from Ostend to the Evening | News says fierce fighting between the | i-elgian gendarmerie and the German cavalry {& occurring in the outskirts of the city. Wounded are being brought in, The despatch adds that the counter was between a detachment of German cavalrymen and 200 gen- darmes. It appears that the Germans early in the morning, while making thel mam t way from Snaeskerke to Ostend, cam vieinity of LAfinghe, some three miles from Ostend, After a fierce fight the Germans were driven back with the loss of sev- { eral men and an .officer wounded, while the gendarmes lost three killed and several wounded iRussians Capture Passes Near Tarnopol Paris, Aug. 25, 12:40 P. M.—A dis- patch received here from St. Peters- burg sets forth that Russian troops, following up their advantages in Guli- cia, have captured several passes south of Tarnopol, on the Sereth river. Tarnopol is 80 miles to the each of Lemburg. A dlvision of Austrian cavalry has been routed in Galicla at a point close to the frontler. The Russians cap- tured two batteries of artillery and 200 prisoners. Servian Territory Cleared of Austrian Forces Nish, Aug. 26., via London, 2:30 p. m.—Servian (roops re-occu- pled Sabac (Shabats) at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of Monday, Aug. 24, ac- | cording to an officlal announcement made today. The Austrians have been thrown back on the other bank of the river Save, and every bit of Servian terri- tory has now been cleared of the enemy. The announcement adds that the retreating Austrians deva .ated Ser- vian villages and massacred the in- | habitants. Sabac Is on the River Save, twenty- seven miles west of Belgrade, | Servia, Austrians Being Pursued By Servian Forces London, Aug. 256.—The Nish cor- respondent of Reuters Telegram com.- | pany telegraphs as follows | “'After the great victory by our army our forces are vigorously pursuing the enemy along the whole of their front. | The latter made no resistance but | fled with the greatest haste, | “The enemy's casualties were enormous. According to the informa- tion obtained up to the present, the 21st, the 11th, the 102nd, and the 28th regiments were completely wiped out. The commander of the 28th was cap- tured. The commander of the 21st division of infantry of the Landwehr into contact with the guarde in the | fand on the extreme ops facing the French troo ed them In battle from Aug. Numerous ensigns, more th 10,000 prisoners ha ! been captured. Luneville haw | taken and the, army of Gener { Joffre broken up,'is no more capablf of action. The German crown prinee army has chased the French west Longwy. The army of the duke i\\'urtz-mhurg. marching through Bel gium, has crossed the river Semo completely crushing the advanel French army. Numerous gun signs, prisoners and several ge were captured, The German tre advancing west of the river Meuse wards Maubeuge defeated an lish cavalry brigade, The Semois, Lougwy and the greater of the Belgo-French frontier are I German hands, A concentric ad) vance of all the German army towa: Paris is probable.” defes to 21. 1150 gunsg and e 300,000 Gm;fi; Are Attacking Miline London, Aug. 25, 4:46 A, M= despatch to the Times from Ostend #ent today, says that 30,000 Germ: are attacking Milines, a Belgian of thirteen miles southeast of Antw Skirmishing 1= general in northw Flanders. German Cavalrymen on Both Sides of London, Aug. 25, 11:16 A. M.—Th Central News circulates a despate from Parls saying that an offici communication given out in that e} declares that German cavalrymen longing to an independent divi are operating on the extreme left of the p tion of the allies, Kaiser's Nephew Made Prisoner By F Paris, Aug. 2 A, M.—A d to the Excelsior from Courtrai that the emperor's nephew, Col Von Schwerin, has been taken prison er He was in command of a detach ment of Uhlans who reached H beke, French chasseurs, being formed of the presence of the G mans, arrived on the scene and kil one, wounded five and made oners of the others. According to the Matin the min| of commerce is considering the means of annulling German patent and trade marks in France, following (Continued on Eleventh Page.)