The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 13, 1914, Page 1

j _ touching my JOSH WISE SAYS: port has some people yy that ef they sat in a feckin’ chair with one rocker on @ rock, they wouldn't stop rockin’ long enough ter remove th’ rock.” The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the New — VOLUME 16, NO, 145, SEATTLE, WASH., a eee = THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1914. ONE CENT AST EDITION WEATHER FORECAST — Great weather for awimmin’ and forest generally fair tonight and Northwest winds. ON TRAINS AND NEWS KTANDS, be Eye-Witness Tells Graphic Story 7 Of Liege Battlefield; Describes Bloody Shambles of First Fight | AMERICAN WOMEN FLEE FROM BESIEGED CITY OF BELGRADE) THE HUMAN SLAUGHTER | HOUSE’-NO. 2 wave of herror spread over the European continent when this book, “The id published. One hundred thousand roples were sold horrifying word picture ‘war appliances a Large Public School wigaadl af Gecmany,) CHAPTER II. 1913, by the Frederic lata Stokes Co.) We rejoined the Colors on Friday. On Monday we are to move out. Today, being Sunday, is full-dress Church} Parade. / I slept badly last night, and} am feeling uneasy and limp. | And now we are close-packed in church. | The organ is playing a vol-| untary. I am leaning back and straining my ears for the sounds in the dim twilight of the building. Childhood’s days rise before my eyes again. I am watching a little solemn- faced boy sitting crouched in| a corner and listening to the divine service. The priest is! standing in front of the altar,! and is intoning the exhorta-| tion devoutly. The choir in the gallery is} chanting the responses. The organ thunders out and floods through the building majestic- ally. I am rapt in an esctasy| of sweet terror, for the Lord God is coming down upon us. He is standing before me and jody, so that I Men go out to fight—“MACHINES”—aceord- book langel sitting | ————— | millions of cheering lights. very spot where they who wae returning trom Reumania ona He 1s pronouncing the benediction over us My & voice that echoes from mb. blessing us in the name of God, the merciful. He {a blessing our rifles that they | may not fail us; he is blessing the | wire-drawn gune on their patent re- |collless carriages; he is blessing (Continued on Page 7.) THREE-FIFTH ‘OF ATTACKING ‘FORCEIS LOST BRUSSELS, Aug. 13— Three-fifthe of the Germans who took part in Wednesday's fighting north of Tirlemont were killed or disabled by their wounds, it was asserted by the Beigian war office to- day. The obattie centered at Haelen, it is stated, the lines extending north to Diest, about five miles away. A mixed brigade was sald to have supported the Belgian cavalry, and infantry and ar- tiliery, the German Second Iry division. The engage- continued untli the Ger- d. churoh, brewery and sev- houses were destroyed at Lamesus, ® German bigh «choot of death on the battlefield with modern have to close my eyes in a ter- ror of shuddering ecstasy That is long, long ago, and Is all past and done with, as youth itself is past and done. Strange! After all these years of doubt and unbelief, at this mo- ment of lucid consciouness, the at. mosphere of devoutness, long since dead, possesses me, and thrills me) 80 passionately that I can hardly re- sist it. This {s the same heav7 twi- Iight—-these are the same yearning voices—-the same fearful} senses of rapture } I pull myself together, and sit bolt upright on the hard wooden pew. In the main and side aisles be low and the galleries above, nothing| but soldiers in uniform, ‘and all,| with level faces, turned toward the| altar, toward the pale man in his| long, dignified gown, toward that sonorous, unctous mouth, from whose lps flows the name of God Look! his hand of German to their The war office eaid 200 of their killed were counted in a space of 50 yards square. Mrs. Steven Mack, Ocean Park laundress, was notified her grand- He is now stretching forth mother had died at Halifax, N. 8., We incline our heads. leaving her $500,000. | was up In the Cascades several days ago when a summer storm descended on us after supper. it was an angry storm. The wind howled and the giant trees moaned as if their roots were being torn from the earth. It seemed if the whole firmament had been shrouded forever In Finally the storm died out, and one ar blinked of hope to me. By and by another c sky was clear and ite great dome wae studded with, Of course | knew the stars had been there all the time, shining serenely through unnumbered centuries, as they will shine through aeons to come. Y It was only a wisp of fog and mist—a very tittle one, compara- tively—-which blotted them out view, and it soon faded away. it le always so. Look at the stars and take courage. then another. RUSSIANS CLAIM A scene in the French town of Fraize before the outbreak of European hostilities. fantry, which Is being mobilized In the vicinity of the town, marching post. it shows French In- through the streets toward an out- ! The War Situation | ENTIRE GERMAN ARMY hammering away at! French and Belgian lines. Battle is being concentrated |in Belgium, Luxemburg and on French frontier, near |Spincourt. Germans are shelling French town of Pont-a-Mousson, 20 miles north of Nancy, apparently | with hope of pushing through Toul-Epinal gap. to French frontier fortifications, weakest spot in 300) miles of almost impregnable defenses. BRITISH WAR PRESS bureau reports engage-| ment between Belgians and second German cavalry division at Hassels. THE SAME AUTHORITY says French, outnum- bered by Germans 4 to 1, retreated from Mulhausen in good order. BELGIANS STILL HOLD forts at Liege and repeated efforts of Germans to pass into the heart of Belgium are so far ynavailing. BELGIUM "APPEALS to neutral nations to pre- vent alleged slaughtering of wounded soldiers and torturing of civilians by Germans. UNITED STATES plans to raise revenue cut off by war by increasing tax on liquors and tobacco. BRAZIL IS NEUTRAL RIO JANEIRO, Brazil, Aug. 12,— a iim order. to rhatntatn strict neutral- ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 13.—|!ty !n the European war, the Bra- zillan government has prohibites Almost uniform successes In thelr) archant vessels from inne Sine fights thus far with the Germans jess installations {n Brazilian ports and Austrians are are claimed by|and will permit them only enough the Russians today, coal to complete their voyages. ¥ MANY VICTORIES NOW ENGLAND DECLARES WAR’ UPON AUSTRIA By Henry Wood ROME, Aug. 13.—Immediate- ly following announcement to- day that Great Britain had de- clared war against Austria-Hun- gary, Austrian cabinet meet- Ing was held, according to a dis- patch received here today from Vienna. It was presumed this was with a view of calling on Italy to adhere to Its pledges under the terms of the “triple alliance’—Germany, Austria and Italy—-by coming to Austria's ald The alliance required each of the three countries which signed it to help each or both of the others if they should be attacked, but made no such requirement in the event of an offensive campaign. Either Germany or Austria-Hungary hav- ing, so far as the matter of formal declarations were concerned, ated hostilities {n all previous cases since the present struggle began, Italy insisted that its allies were acting on the aggressive, despite their contention that really they had been attacked, and refused to join them. It is believed Italy will again re- fuse. This may bring upon it an Austrian and probably a German declaration of war, initt- | Sorely Wounded, Caling for His Mother, Boyle O'Reilly (Correspondent of The Star.) Special Staff Cabi BRUSSELS, Belgium, Aug. 13.—When first the German army began its invasion of Belgium, I hurried over from London to be as near as possible to the scene of battle. At Brussels I halted, for I could not get nearer Li which the German army was shelling. Here I have talked to a man who has been in and Liege since the city was first besieged. From him I have’ first-hand reports ‘of the fighting. ‘They all agree that & was terrible carnage, horrible scenes of war—bloodsh wailing wounded and—the dead—thousands and thous: An Amsterdam merchant, one of the first non-combatani to visit the battlefields of Vise and Liege, told me what he himself had seen. ; “I never want to set my foot upon another battlef he declared, “and I pb God that there will never be other battlefield any on the core again!” _ “I saw a blue-eyed boy , alone, road Vise; pic bya eae i a tt i¢ one unconscious, ; in the path of the guns that followed. : “Perhaps death has blessed the boy by now. Pray God be so! He was moaning pitifully for it, as we passed in our motor, only a few hours ago. But we did not stop. Horrible to confess, I hardly noticed his suffering. “ “I had seen so much like it, and worse! All feeling was gone, after the time I had spent on a charnel field, where paw wounded lie compressed in the bloody mass of the lead. “Yes, when I started out in the motor for a run along the battleground, from Vise to Liege, I rather expected the trip would be exciting. “It would be glorious to be one of the first on those fields where the Belgians had been so valiantly fighting for hearth and home against the invaders. i Wheels of Car Skid in Blood Speeding Through Village of Mesch “Would that I had been the last to visit them—after the wounded had all been taken up, and the dead. burned or buried! “There were flowers and smiling faces in the neat cottage windows as I sped through the peaceful frontier village of Mesch. Yet only a little further on, as we rounded a turm we found a machine literally plowing through a cluster of dead soldiers, THE WHEELS SKIDDING IN BLOOD} There had been a skirmish of outposts there. Beyond was the site of a German camp, marked by heaps of the dead. _ “Belgians and Germans lay strewn in indescribable con- fusion, giving mute evidence that the conflict had been hand- to-hand—bayonet against saber. “Lying among the corpses, on them, under them, were the bodies of horses and the wrecks of automobiles and motorcycles “The Belgian cyclist infantry, I surmised, had caught a body of German infantry and cavalry here, in a flank move- ment. Bodies Lie in Twisted Mass With Living Forms Entangled in Them The silence was ghastly. The battlefield was two days old, and the wounded had all been picked up, or more likely, had found relief in death. “All along the route villages were in ruins, fields flattened, forests charred by flame. A sheet of fire and steel seemed to have blazed across the country and left it a dreary wilderness, “Much farther along I came to the real carnage—the fresh battle fields around Liege. The living, still uncared for, lay among the | corpses Have you ever burned out a huge nest of worms in a tree and | seen the mess of their bodies on the ground, seeming to writhe as a | whole because of the still wriggling, agonizing forms scattered through | 1t? “Just enlarge that picture to human proportions and add to its sf | lence the horror of groans and cries! That is what I saw on th. out- skirts of the great battlefields at Liege. “Here a man's whole body turned over. Another was jerking spas- modically in the death grip. here a blooay arm was raised, and further on a hand beckoned 1. leeding forms were painfully crawling over the shambles as zim. lessly, it seemed, as singed Insects. | “Red Cross surgeons and ambulances were working their way meth- | odically across the field, which under the gloomy drizzle of rain had | grown sodden, Its mire and mud puddles were stained ‘red |Flees From Sight as Wounded Boy Calls for His Mother “As | moved along the slope fearful details began to sink in. Here was a path of wheels in the mass of flesh where artillery, changing its position in mad haste, had torn wheel ruts right through the dead and dying forms! “An inarticulate sob issued from a body at my feet. It was maimed, broken and bathed in blood, and the whole face had been crushed in | by @ horse's hoof. “Yet jat blind, shapeless thing was still alive! | in a panic of coward But what more could | do? “I pointed out the spot where {t lay to one of the Red Cross sur- | geons, yet I knew he would pass it by for the wounded German near at | hand, who might still be saved. “Somebody cried for water, but I had none. ‘Water,’ the hoarse voice still sobbed as I went on. I escaped {t only to come to something | moved away “A young boy, sorely wounded in the breast, was deliriously crying, ‘Mother, oh, my mother!’ “I turned to my motor and took the road back toward Holland, in flight.” % rx fs