The evening world. Newspaper, August 24, 1914, Page 2

ie i ae nA ille, L. I., to-day the German Embassy received a message reporting a victory by the an Crown Prince over five French army corps near Metz. The message from the Berlin General Office read as follows: “The army of the German Crown Prince won a decisive victory northwest of hofen, near Metz, over five French army corps. “The retreat of the southern French wing on Verdun has been cut off. “French troops repulsed toward the River Meuse. Complete rout. “The Crown Prince’s army giving chase took part prisoners and declared the ch troops are no longer able to face the terrible fire of the German troops.” Losses Greater Than in Any Modern Battle. PARIS, Aug. 24 [United Press].—The War Office late to-night refused to discuss the situation at the front. Whispers the Germans had broken the allied centre were current, but were impossible of verification. The War Office reiterated its declaration of the morning that the battle was still in progress and that several days be required before a definite result could be announced. For three days the tide of battle has steadily risen, but to-day it is still far from reaching the flood. At some points the defense wall has been partly wrecked, only to be restored by rushing reinforcements in desperate At others the German infantry, unable to penetrate the withering hail of explosive shells and the fire of thousands @ machine guns already, in action, has fallen back—checked but not defeated. The carnage has been fearful. The chiefs at the War Office calmly say that the dead and wounded already out- ber those of any battle in modern times. Figures, they admit, are so stupendous as to mtan very little. “Three great German armies—the bulwark of the Kaiser's war machine—are advancing steadily in a determined at- to break the allied line and penetrate French territory. Behind them are the reserves, totalling more than a — additional men. But up to the present time the allied lines have held, and the War Office official bulletin i izes the general situation as “satisfactory.” The German army operating in Lorraine has gai a foothold in the Department of Muerthe-et-Moselle. Luneville to been occupied. Nancy is endangered. One report says it has already been occupied, but this the War Office denies. s driven from Pont-a-Moisson on Saturday reoccupied the town on Sunday. The army operating there is that “which came from Metz. Rumor says that the German Crown Prince is in personal command. Fighting continues in upper Alsace. The Germans are hurling fresh forces at the French army at Muelhausen, com- ded by the one-armed hero General Paul Pau. Fresh troops have been rushed from Strassburg and from east of ‘the Rhine. Up to the present the French army is maintaining the advantage previously gained. " Ruasia’s speedy concerted attack has delighted French military chiefs. They say that if they can hold the Germans near the present positions for another week the worst will be over, as the Kaiser must withdraw part of his forces to ‘gave his harried army in Eastern Prussia. The Landsturm will not do for this work, It is said, ‘and it will need the most efficient of the Germans to even hold momentarily the immense Russian army that is now in the field. The real line of battle to-day resembles the letter Z. The Italy Mobilizes Troops on Austrian Borders GENEVA, Aug. 23 (via Paris, Aug. 24).—(Delayed in nsmission.) (Associated Press].—Italian troops, accord- ing to thoroughly reliable information reaching here, are concentrating on the Austrian frontier. line starts at Audenarde and goes east to Brussels. pill stroke runs southwest from Brussels to Mons and ‘the bottom line extends east from Mons to Namur. The wiest fighting is in the angle half way between Brussels ‘southwest to Mons and east to Charleroi. , Germans from the north and from the east are being Trai d against the allied line, seeking to break through by pei force of numbers. The German army from Luxem- burg has been pushed through the heavily wooded and al- n impossible territory to reinforce the army of the north The French frontier on Switzerland has been virtually began its attack on Namur last Friday. stripped of its garrisons, owing to partial mobilizatipn by The admission that the English army has been thrown | individual summons and not by public order. into the defense line is accepted as indicating that there is According to reports in Geneva, the Italian army has feal danger of the line being penetrated by the Germans, who] been raised to 800,000 men. | gre apparently following out their original plan of campaign Lille as the chief objective. To check the assault the Russia Reports Capture Of Four Prussian Towns a i are depending on their splendid artillery and machine, which have already proven wonderfully effective. All but one of the Liege forts and all of the Namur forts hold out, and Antwerp is safe with a big Belgian army = for action. It is pointed out that if the Germans are ced to retreat they will be in grave danger. The Belgians in Antwerp would institute a flank attack! moment the German forward movement is halted, and British experts believe this must be the inevitable out- ‘ome of the present battle. LONDON, Aug. 24 [Associated Press).—The official Bu- feau of Information to-day gave out the following announce- ‘ ts British forces were engaged all day Sunday and until dark with the enemy in the neighborhood of Mons, sium. They held their ground.” (This statement clears up the mystery about the move- ments of the British troops. No word hac been received about them since the landing of the expeditionary force was com- pleted on Aug. 18.) | f Servian War Office Reports Big Victories NISH, Servia (via London), Aug. 24 [Associated Press|.— ©) Servia has issued a reply to a official communication on the Austro-Servian situation issued at Vienna. After repeat- “a the main points of the Austrain note the Servian come ~ munication says: ‘ “In order to put matters in their proper light the official | press bureau has been authorized by the highest authorities to issue the following: “The Servian army captured from the enemy in the | engagement on the Drina, spoils which up to the present : ime include the following items: 4,500 prisoners; 53 guns, ~'8 howitzers; 114 caissons; 3 field ambulances and a medical 5) column with supplies; 14 field kitchens; 15 ammunition, : Provision and telegraph wagons, railroad trains, quantities ef equipment, regimental strongboxes.” UDINE, Italy, via Paris, Aug. 24 [Associated Press].— Reports received here from Vienna are to the effect thet the report of Gen. Rennenkamp, who is in command of the Russian advance in East Prussia, claims that the greater part of Eastern Prussia is now dominated by the Russians. He says: “We hold the railroads and have captured Gumbinnen, Insterburg, Ortelburg and Johannisburg. The Twentieth German Army Corps, which bore the brunt of our attack, was practically cut to pieces. We have taken several thou- sand prisoners in addition to the guns already reported.” The General Staff to-day stated that the Russians operating against the Austrians have followed up their initial victories with further successes. It states that the Russian cavalry sent to meet the Austrians, who have been | attacking Viadimar-Volnak, routed them with heavy loss. On Saturday, the announcement says, nine Russian squadrons attacked a force of more than twice their num- ber near the station of Pluchow. The Austrians were de- feated and the Russians took two mounted batteries and 160 prisoners, Capture of Insterburg Copyright, 1914, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York World.) 81’. PETERSBURG, Aug. 24.—The Russian northern army is now fully | concentrated and bas revealed remarkable striking force. After am oner- | metic advance om the German lines along the eastern frontier of Prussia, it has succeeded in capturing Insterburg, thirty miles from the Russian fron- tler on the road leading to Koenigsberg, thus striking at and paralyzing one of the main centres of the East Prussian system of strategic rallways, The Russians advanced resolutely in face of the encmy's fire across a long stretch of dried marsh land, and broke through the barbed wire en- tanglements which like a vast net surrounded the German positions. The* Russian infantry especially exhibited wonderful steadiness, and this was an important factor in their success, The entire German position, up te a line drawn from Davalg to Thorn, cutting off all of East Prussia, is now jeopardized. FRENCH SOLDIER PROMISES been done through Lloyds and othor channels at lower than the Government ) Bh) Gives Russia Strong Grip KAISER TO FIGH AND BE VICTORIOUS, SAYS COUNT VON BERNSTORFF England Aveady 8 Scared, Ger- man Ambassador Says, Has Called Japan to Her Aid. CROWN PRINCE AT METZ. Won a Great Victory There Over the. French, Says the Count. the Kaleer to the lowest un- skilled workman in the Fatherland, Germany is united to defend herself against the frivolous and unwarrant- ed attack of jealous powers. The German people will fight to a finish and will be victorious in the end.” Count Jobaa von Bernstorff, Am- bassador of the German Empire to this country, made this statement and prophecy aboard the incoming Holland-American line steamship Noordam to-day. He spoke with the grave seriousness of moral conviction. The Ambassador had seen Kaiser Wilhelm at his task of directing the resources of his people to the defense of the land and he knev the temper of the Katser’s millions. While the joyous hundreds of American refugees danced on the decks to the tune of “Too Much Mus- tard,” almoat frenzied with joy at their safe delivery from the perila abroad, Count von Bernstorff fu’ , and frankly answered the qur tions of bis interviewers, “At the outbreak of the war with Germany the English cut the cable to this neutral country,” sald the Count, “for the sole purpose of pre- venting the truth from coming here, There was no excuse for that act except the desire to deceive the peo- ple of the United States as to the true conditions of the war. But | believe Americans will prove them- | selves fair enough to weigh all the! alleged news that comes from English and French sources in the light of this act.” jon asked what was public opin- ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 24 [United Press).—The official atte Berlin anent the entry of the| Japanese into the world confiict, Count von P-rnstorff said: “The calling of the yellow race ina European quarrel shows one thing above all else, This is that England, who admits res lity for having urged Japs ention, does not feel very e. The Japanese will doubtless take Kiaochow — sheer weight of numbers insures that. By the end of the war, however, Japan will have the supremacy of the Pa- cifo—a thing which she has striven for during many years. Japan took advantage of the situation to strike this blow for the sole purpose of ac- quiring this supremacy.” The Ambassador dented rumors to the effect that an attempt had been made to assassinate Crown Prince Frederick William in Berlin on “ie day before war began. “Not only was no auch attempt made,” eaid the Ambassador, “but the story that he was seriously in- jured at the assault on Liege is also false, The Crown Prince has never been at Liege. He is at present in command of the army at the fortress of Metz. The last great German vic- tory I heard of before leaving Berlin waa won at Metz by the army under command of the Crown Prince.” ‘This is the first intimation in this | country of a battle at Mets, Count von Bernstorff also dented tl. report that Gen. von Em- | mich, commander of the German |forces at the assault on Liege, bad been mortally wounded. Speaking of Liege his eye kindled and his voice lifted in enthusiasm. | “When the true story of the assault on Liege is told Americans will have | a far different opinion than that | gained from the colored accounts from Belgian. French and English sources, As @ matter of fact, the | troops under von Emmich, which went to the assault of this strongly fortified position, numbered only be- tween 5,000 and 6,000 infantrymen and cavalrymen. De Austrians are about to abandon their operations against the| SWEETHEART THE KAISER’S | fully’ (n ‘ecovordance with “One enna tt f~ Servians on the Drina River in order to concentrate their) © HELMET FOR FLOWER POT| tovernmont interonce ecramen sor She forces against the Russian advance. Bas ject of which is & maximum Hmit The difficulties of the campaign against Servia have been| PARIS, Aus. %—(United Preas.)~| tho whale of the business ot oan ne, redoubled by the troubles in Bosnia. When he eft for the front the sweet-| insurance. “Cargo across the North Atlantic been carried at 3 per cent. and ‘rom the United Kingdom to the heart of one young French recruit clung to him weeping bitterly, “Don't ery, Marcelle,” the recruit sald “Be a good little girl and I'll bri the Kalsor'a helmet back from Say 5 of 15 Zeppelins atch Have Been Destroyed Ae ede Lan” her tear Pisces ceicah LOW INSURANCE QUOTED PARIS, Aug. 24 (The Associated Press).-Zeppelin airships, of which the Germans expected great things, appear as yet to have been inoffensive, | TO ENCOURAGE SHIPPERS | @ecording to opinion in the French capital. Of the fifteen Zeppelin units, | OF AMERICAN WHEAT. “@e is believed to have been disabled by the fire of the Liege forts on Aug. 6 " and another was demolished in a shed at Metz by the French aviator, Capt. oa eee rata ta panactans k, Two others have been seen by Belgian aviators, apparently wrecked received to-day by th) British Acting PF Wind squalis, in the forest between Metz and Alx-la-Chapelle, been trought down at Badonvillier, near Luneville. two are supposed to be on the Russian frontier and and Kiel and on the French troatier, 2 dnat ut 2 was lowere guineas per cent. le AUSTRIANS ARE TAKEN FROM CANADIAN TRAINS r cent, jerlin BUFFALO, N. ¥., Au ed Preaa.)—Twenty-ft been taken from Ont., opposite here, within the las 24.—( Aasociat- trians hav Another Consul-General, R. 8. Nosworthy, from the London Board of Trade, The cable- wraim reuds: foree of constables was the aa “During the past week a very large) The A: amount of war insurance business has tome point rn in to hel, ax eevarstaene sats| 8,028 PLN PERO te tat ment rate mich was slightly woun in the aw from Aug. 17 to three) Guring the attack, but did not AS PRISONERS OF WAR Bridgeburg, twelve hours and are held as prisoners of war in the Bridgeburg jail. A special in modern times, ed to take weeks was accomplisned | linquish the command.” The taking of Liege | siness of war risk, Was one of the greatest military feats What was expect- LOODIEST OF WORLD'S BATILES BEING TOUGHT IN BELGIUM ITALIANSHPS CANT CARRY AUSTRIANS | ORGERMANS HOME Order From sae ll: Comes to Agents Here Who Had Booked Reservists. HT TO FINISH the Countess, his wife, who was an American girl, had gone to Munich to take part in Red Cross work there; his son had answered the call to the Se and was in his regiment of the juards. “Would that I could fighting line myselt,” ssador. A most significant development in this city of the present strained con- ditions between Italy and Austria was the order received to-day by the Italian line steamsntp agents, Hart- field, Solari & Co. No, 24 Whitehall street, from the home office of th steamship company directing thi to refuse further passage to Ge! mans and Austrians on ships of t line, The order directe the New York agents to refund whatever pas- ge money had already been paid for commodations aboard the steam- ship Stampalia, duo to satl for Genon and Naples on Wednesday. About fifty German and Austrian reservists had booked pansage for the Stampalia, and the Consuls of the two countries expected to divert more re- servists to that vessel before she of @ train of similar conveyances) sailed, ‘To-day's order not only will Hanh air Geren name te ioct | keep these would-be soldiers trom five days to make the journey ordi- | ®4tling, but closes the only steamshly narily accomplished in twelve hours. | line left open to Germans and Aus- Miss Busch slep: on the floor of the|trinns desiring to gu buck tu Burope cattle car and had only such food as|and fight, she could beg, for she was penniless.| When Mr. Hartfield of the agency At Hamburg she was jocked up|was ayked if thin order presaged a as & spy because she still carried | breaking off of relations between Russian passports. hours she was ailbioated to the most! the order spoke for tteelf. for itself. HERE IN THE MAILS be on the said the Am- gers perbape none perate adventure thai Miss Elfe Busch, a Baltimore girl, of Russian parentage and birth. She had re. turned to St. Petersburg early in the summer to collect an inheritance be- queathed to her. When the war cloud enveloped Russiu she ma to Libau and there tool boat for Stockholm. There were ac- commodations for only nineteen pas. sengers, but 200, mostly German ret gees fleeing Russia, packed them- selves aboard the boat. In the three days occupied by the passage Miss Busch had only two bottles of sour milk to sustain her. From Stockholm she took boat to Copenhagen, hoping to reach rela- tives In Berlin, She rode from Copen- hagen to Berlin in a cattle car, one ters from Baltimore aie carried with ber, Arriving finally tn Berlin, she discovered that her relatives bad met the city. “1 was almost desperate then,” ts] the way Miss Busch detailed the cli- | max of her adventures to-day. “TI had no clothes except those I wore,! no money, no friends. for six houra waiting to o Am- bassador Gerard, but fatled. ‘hen, | in my desperation, I calied upon Mrs. | Gerard. She gave me money and ar- ranged for me to be sent to Rotter- dam on a special train.” Dr. Edward E. Hicks, of No, 1168. The long established newspap: » of Leoaelpsiolall prcene ih he dod Paris, such as Le Matin and Le Jour- one of @ party ol mericans in Hol- |’, land who were arrested as spies near, va” St Coming to this country a : the village of Couda. Because one of! ‘dreas” in which, save for the title them, Dr. Swan, of East Pa., took! line, they are far from familiar, They oe Saepancte wpere ie shouldn't are of only one sheet—two pages—and ave done #0 ole party came F é near being shot. They escaped only they are completely lacking in ac. d finally had Yertisements. The litorlals are dis: after a long harangue the pleasure of entertaining their cap-| tributed about the news columns, since they are, of course, based upon tors ira Si) (ral Land is Dr. K ertling, President of the| American Institute in Berlin, the au.| the despatches, which are imougre| thorized board of trade representing | enough, from the front. American commercial interests, satd| Some of the headlines such as sare | that was coming to co-operate y EY with the German Ambassador in an, French Army Has Entered Mul- effort to get German news to this| house” extend entirely across the country. He hopes by using wireless) front page. This ts from Le Matin. and the cable to Spain an aly to ae tne caele ihe Cenoan aide ce the| one of the pesdinie tn Le Journal war before Americans. He will atay,| Mnounces that “Tho French Flag temporarily, at the Harvard Club, Floats Over Altkirch and Mulhoune." Among the Noordam’s cabin pas-| Bestdes the heading 1s another, “The Mat Who Wha epent dept Two Dear Cities Retaken—Mulhouse, in Africa in the interesta of the New | Altkirch,” York Zoological Soclet nd in the tion of the historical vicissitudes of hold were a female gorilia and a rare the two cities. chimpanzee which Prof. Gardner ts/ bringing, to the Bronx Zoo, The go-| Throughout the newspapers there i] is the finest specimen he had are despatches and articles dealing ween in captivity, the Batureiiat | with the alleged brutality of the Ger- man troops. Le Matin in its issue ——e HUNTINGTONS WERE HELD AND STRIPPED AS SPIES OF CZAR IN GERMANY.: LONDON, Aus. 2% (Associated Preas)—Archer 44. .tuntington, of New York, President of the American Geo- graphical Society, and Mrs. Huntington, ‘who have arrived from the Continent, to-, day confirmed the story of their arrest as Russian sples in Germany. ‘They left Carlsbad two hours before the receipt of the news of the declaration of war with Russia, travelling \y motor ‘There they were ar- e police station, ed from 8 o'clgck until 2 o'clock in the, | pire ot Barbarians. Following a column in italica reprinted from Le | Peuple, a socialistic Brussels paper, Le Matin gives the other two columns to a deposition before the Commis- waire of the Paris police by one Jean Gaudefroy-Demombynes. In this the deponent describes the killing by Ger- man troops of four Frenchmen who, while under arrest, had the temerity to cry “Long live France!" ‘the Frenchmen, with the deponent and three Russians, were striving to get out of Germany the day war was declared. At Lorrach, near the fron- fe, they were arrested and after uae fe and their clothing were poarch ree young Frenchmen, evidently ‘students demanded their | Mborty, saying in German, that hey were Frenchmen and brave. ‘The only reply beyond a "Shut your mug” from one of the German officers, that the where they in the moi afternoon, Both Mr. and Mrs, Hunting- ton were obliged to remove their cloth- ing, which was searched Their papers aiso were rancacked and thelr car, which was of French make, was comman-| geponent heard was the Brin of shots Huntingtons were then se ages. eh ana Milowed to remain “im at the three students \as they were lined up against a wall, Rufeur and ther;| Gaudefroy-Demombynes also de- the shooting of another, Frenchman who cheered for France ,and was rv arded with @ bullet New through the eral Le Matin ne Ay date gives two paragraphs to the account of the under . pol Nuremthelt French chauffeur. and thetr | PAE who Ia an Englishman, were niade | scribed prisoners of war. en Swift, pany's eck Yorn City for "uaa 1.33 cents pet Dt ¥; ried lal for Mond. rosea a jong opie of ll aici i Concerning the reported Russian | sion of East Prussia, the Am- in | dor said: e reports of the penetration by |u Russian force are probably true. | That part of the German frontier i not heavily fortified. But the Ru: eee eit ever cross the vistui, Fifteen « ®' army, each com now on the Rui t tria, Count vot Germany, ‘ military service had volunteered an: lied in an army of bi © Gelease. he Ambassador’ eald DN ATYLK BROKEN CANDY— it, inte 1Oe Es ivera ie own besides the last line of| reservists, 1,300,000 men, upon whom | | the Government had no claim for | For twenty-four | Italy and Austria he said only that GVESTORES OF WAR FAG : and below It a descrip. |= burial of “The First Soldier Kitied @ by the Enemy” He was a cavali naned Pouget. of the Twelft! seurs, “traioriously killed b declaration of war.” At his tu his comrades were sworn to @' him re tl _— LINER CHARTERED BY F. L. LOREE SAILS TO GET AMERICANS. ‘The Southern Pacific liner Antilles, of 0,000 tons, with capacity for 180 passem> ners, slipped out of port ’thia afterneom, found for Genoa, Italy. She carried enough coal and proviainna for the round trip, but no passengers. The Antilles is under charter to F. 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