The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 14, 1914, Page 1

MOLI JOSH WISE “Soy Bean, our village cut-up, has been Aoticed lately studyin’ @ map of th’ Amazon. It's sue pected he has an ambition ter become a Brazi! nut” ——__ VOLUME 16. NO. 146. War Censors Claim Great Border Battle Lines 250 Miles Lo MICTORY! hig The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News a Sanne SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1914. LOSSES ENORMOUS IN THIRD DAY'S FIGHTIN BRUSSELS IN DANG ANTWERP, Aug. 14.—Unavailing efforts were made today to get an estimate of the number killed and wounded on both sides in the huge battle, now in its third day, all along the line, 250 miles from the Dutch frontier, through Belgium and Luxemburg and the | length of the Franco-German boundary to the Swiss border. Between three and four million men are in service in the actual fighting zone. In a large sense the whole affair is one gigantic engagement. In another sense, it is a j series of separate fights. Concerning some of these, many details were known; of others only the baldest state- | ments had been received. Doubtless there have been many at all. Wires, too, were down in every to admit the real extent of its actual losses. thousands SLAUGHTER | HOUSE” -NO. 3} By Wilhelm Lamszus (Master of a large public echool in Germany.) (COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY THE FREDERIC A STOKES CO.) CHAPTER III. I am lying in bed, and counting a hundred slowly. It must be close on midnight now, and I am still unable to get to sleep | The room resounds to the noise of snoring. They are lying to the right and to the left of me, and if I turn over} on my back, I am staring up at the wooden planking of a} bed. For the cots extend all along the wall from door to| window, one above the other. and in every cot a soldier is| lying asleep. Now and again one or other tosses about, heavily over to the other side. Further away, near the window, some one is mumbling| in his sleep. Suddenly he shouts out aloud: “And that} wasn’t me. I ain’t touched a bit of the wire. D’you take me for a thief?” It sounds exactly and rolls as if he were wide-awake. I am the point of speaking to him. Then all is silence again, and; ] lie listening intently for what is going to happen next. But} he keeps quiet, and goes on dreaming. He is still in the midst on (Continued on Page 6.) Some day I’m going to start out on a real vacation. forget that | ever have got to go back to regular work. jet come what may, and | shall * ofl that kind of vacation, Ralph Wiener is the man I’m most envious of ae | write these lines, And Ralph isn’t very well. The doctor said a southern climate would be better for him. 80 Ralph, who was a walter in Scranton, Pa., } restaurant, and Nettle, hii decided they'd go to Jacksonville, Fia., more than a thousand miles away. They began the hike without a penny. They reckoned that the novelty of their undertaking would bring them a chance in each city to earn their food, while a blanket and the open sky were all the| hotel they would need. how it has turned out thus far with | one-third of the journey covered. Though the couple are young, this journey isn’t their honeymoon | —they’ve been married a number of ye: But It will likely be more interesting than a honeymoon and more helpful In making good com rades. For ten weeks’ camping together, unfretted by usual cares, are I'm going to I'm going to direction. The censorship is rigid. have been killed and a still larger number of thousands wounded, was eno to cement a comradeship for Iife. day I’m going to try It myself. arn't barred from euch a vacation. The poorest of the poor which have not been reported Neither side is Ae nearty as could be learned, the German front ex- tended from the vicinity of Remit, end, thence Beak” te the southeast through Huy, and along the River a te the Luxemburg frontier, south- ward from there 4 Longwy, France, and thence again to the Swiss frontier. This does not mean, however, that the kaiser’s troops controlled all the country to the eastward of this line. The Liege forts are still resisting and there are various places where Belgian cavalry, op eratimg to the Itne's rear, had the Germans cut off from communica. tion with their own base. ‘Brussels Given Blood Baptism; City a Hospital BRUSSELS, Aug. 14.-—This city, the capital of Belgium, is Getting Ite baptism of .biood today. Hundreds of wounded, friend and foe alike, are streaming In from the battie- fields to the eastward. Hoe pitals were quickly swamped. Public bulldings next ~were utilized, then private homes were thrown open to the suf- ferers. Wounded men are laid side by side, in rows, in the city hall, postoffice, churches and schools. They await their turn as the surgeons, all too few of them, toll wearily with knife and saw. They die, some of them, while they walt, and are quickly moved out to make room for the living. The people are dally fear that the Germans are going to attack the city. A shock was caused today by the news that the kalser's cav- alry had forced its way to Louvane, than 20 miles reported living In sonal com had driven them back after a sharp engagement. Of three German aviators who soared over the Belgian lines Thursday, two were killed, while the third was wounded and cap tured. AMERICANS QUIT BERLIN FOR HOLLAND WASHINGTON, Aug. 144-A dis- patch from Ambassador Girard at Berlin via Copenhagen was re- celved today at the state depart. | ment, It left Copenhagen at 3:16 Dp. m. yesterday Americans in Germany, the dis patch said, were being sent to Hol land on special trains. A thief entered two rooms tn the Madrona hotel Thursday night. Guss Ross lost $120 and J. Carlson is minus $30, ONE CENT_ ON THAINS AdW NEWR STANDS, Be FIRST WAR PICTURE FROM BERLIN Kaiser’s Palace Surrounded by Cheering Thousands on the Day War Was Declared Faimess to Ge quarrelsome or hard to get along with. Quite the contrary. The Germans back in the fatherland are like them. We oughtn’t to believe that they rushed into a great war without provocation or without manly effort first to find a way of honorable escape. | Let’s be fair to the great German race, so competent in industry, science and letters—fair enough to remember that almost all of the first news of the war has come from un- friendly sources and therefore should be accepted with reserve till all the returns are in; fair enough to withhold judgment till we have heard Germany’s side. It is true that most of us are opposed to kingly rule, Well, we don’t have to have it. 3ut stand the kings of Europe up in a row and who among them shows a better record for ability, breadth of vision and devotion to peaceful progress than the kaiser? He has been on the throne for 26 years, every minute with the war power in his hand, and this is his first war. The period of his reign has marked Germany’s greatest, steadiest jadvance—so great the world has marveled at it What other king can show a record half so good? | Guess if we had a president with such a record behind} |him we'd cheer for him, too: Furthermore, from what we know of Germans here, it jought to be a safe bet that if the kaiser didn’t suit the Ger- mans at home they wouldn't, to a man, be standing along- side him. As a neutral nation, recruited from very nation on earth, we don’t have to be partisans in this war and it would be becoming if we kept clear of snap judgments. A free field and a fair fight, with no remarks along the | side lines, we guess about expresses the proper policy for | Uncle Sam. ‘SUGAR PRICE TAKES 'NOTHER HOP Sugar took took another Jump today and the price is yy oe more than y' irday on 100 pounds. The price quoted today Local lere deciare they are guided ly by the afl price, which Is based on a world-wide shortage mpeotad to result from the European war. In San Francieco it went up to $7.50 at noon today, } \Y it not be that those of us who have leaped to the } impression that all the fault for the war belonged to} pce have been too quick on the trigger? The United States is peopled with Germans. They form nearly a fifth of our composite nation. The Germans here are patient, kindly, peace-loving, dependable. They're not VANCOUVER IS| WORRIED BY. GERMAN SHIPS | | | | VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 14. —A dispatch from San Fran- cisco that the German cruisers Leipsic and Nurenburg have left the vicinity of that city and are steaming up the coast, apparently In pursuit of the British sioop of war Algerine, which Is heading for Vancouver or Victoria, is causing discus- sion here today. It is believed the Leipsic is doomed to disappointment, because Esquimalt, Rainbow and Shearwater. Harbor Is Mined Fears are expressed here that the Lelpsic may get by Victoria in the night and start something in Van- couver. This would be tmpossible in the daytime. The harbor line from Esquimalt to Victoria is heavily mined and well fortified. During the last few days, more guns have arrived at Vancouver, and have been placed tn command- ing positions. The British admiralty today |ordered the Blue Funnel steamship Protesilaus to Union Bay for coal, Rainbow to Guard Her It is likely she will be convoyed by the Rainbow, because it is now known the German ships have coaled at the last place possible be- fore leaving for home waters, and the Protesilaus would be a rich prize for the Germans. The C, P. R.'s midget Mner, the Empress of India, is due in this af- ternoon with a million-dollar silk cargo. WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—Presi- dent Wilson here today officially proclaimed the United States’ neu- trality in the war between Eng- land and Austria. the Algerine is expected hourly in| where she will join the| U. S. Is Neutral) JULIUS HAD THE DOPE BY C. J. CAESAR BRUSSELS, Aug. 14.—(B. C. 58.)—(Delayed in trane- mission.) —Horum omnium fortiesim! sunt Belgae. Proximaeque sunt Germanis, qui trans Rhenum incolunt. Editor's Note.—Transiated from the Latin the language | of the late Mr, Caesar reads | as follows: | “Of all these, the Belgians | are bi The nearest to them are the Germans, who live across the Rhine.” GERMANS ARE SMASHED BY | By ED L. KEEN LONDON, Aug. 14.—Over whelming successes by the al- Nes against the Germans in Belgium were announced to- day by the official British mil- Itary press bureau, “Wednesday,” said the account, “six regiments of German cavalry, supported by 2,500 infantry and a heavy detachment of artillery with machine guns moved eastward against the Belgians, operations being directed toward the Belgian field at Louvaine, “Belgian cavalry similarly sup- ported by infantry and artillery, opposed this advance, A fight en- sued, lasting all day and covering 15 miles. War scouts and aviators apprised the Belgians of the ene my's approach, “The Belgian defense was well jmaintained, The enemy was com- pletely disorganized and his cavy- alry badly cut up. “After shelling the approaching German column, the Belgians charged. The German cavalry withdrew, and the infantry and ar- tillery were routed.” isbury Fair weather day is his hunch. CAVALRYMEN AST EDITION mind that umbrella. 8 6 it isn’t going to rain. tonight and Satur- GENERAL DIES BY OWN HAND, SAYS REPORT BRUSSELS, Aug. 14—The Ger man cavalry had renewed its at- tempts at raids upon scores of Bel- points, but the war office as BRUSSELS, Aug. 14—Rum- ors that Gen. Von Emmich com- mitted suicide after being re- | buked by the German general | army staff were published to- night by the newspapers here. | Von Emmigh ted the German troops to tHe attack, as yet un- successful, on the Liege forts. The reports of his suicide were attributed to German | prisoners #3 war, serted that all had failed, aviators giving warning of them in advance, The German cavalry had renewed its attempts at raids upon scores of Belgian points, but the war office asserted that all had failed, aviators giving warning of them in advance, According to the war office, Ger- man casualties at Haelen, Tierl- mont, Noville-Taviers and Eghezee exceeded 10,900, besides 5,000 cap tured, Sacrifice Thousands The German commanders, it wi declared, were ignoring the human equation, sacrificing their men ap- parently with indifference for the sake of the slightest advantage. In view of the Germans’ enormous numbers, it was recognized that it would be only a question of time before the Belgian resistance would be crushed. Expect Aliens to Act This was the point, however, where the French and British allies are expected to take a hand. The position of the allies’ main force was kept a secret, but, said the war office, “It will excellently account for itself,” adding that Brus- sels, was not sa! A STAR WANT’ AD will sell it quickly.