The evening world. Newspaper, August 26, 1914, Page 3

| ROADS SO JAMMED WITH DEAD ~ THAT BODIES STAND UPRIGHT a Charge of French at Charleroi Likened to Ligh Brigade at Balaklava—English Troops : Fish as Battle Rages. LONDON, Aug. 26 (Associated Press).—Returning from the front, a eerrespondent of the Times sends the following under a Paris date: “At Mons the British troops have made themselves at home. Prepara- tions for the city's defeno® were extremely comforting in their workmanlike Getail. In the woods lurked innumerable field guns. Everywhere in the town confidence was dominant. “When, with heavy firing audible in the distance, British soldiers cai sit quictly on the banks of the canal, calmly fishing with bayoneted rifles a6 fishing rods, the spectacle inspires confidence, even though from all directions the presence of the dreaded German cavalry is reported.” ‘The next day the correspondent proceeded to Tournal, where he found the populace in great alarm, Six German cavalrymen motored into the town and inquired whether there were any French soldiers. They were told that there were none, but later in the day French troops entered the place and killed the six Germans. The next morning a large force of Germans attacked the town and were repulsed. ’ Proceeding to Valenciennes, the correspondent found that troop traing filled with British soldiers were continually arriving there. oMcers were in absolute possession of the refreshment bars and no food was obtainable. The correspondent continues: “Near Charjeroi I heard some stories of the bravery of the French soldiers. The Germans were bombarding the city. The French troops made what amounted to a medieval sortie, but nding the enemy in much @reater force than was expected, were compelled to withdraw. The bom- bardment continued relentle§sly, whereupon the French Turcos, picked troops from Algeria, debouched from the town and with a gallantry which must surely live in history, charged the German battery, bayonetting al) the German gunners. Their losses, it is said, exceeded those of the Light Brigade at Balac: lava. Of a battalion, only 100 men, ft is reported, returned unscathed. Their bravery, however, was powerless against the German advance, which e-ept foot by foot through the outskirts of Charleroi to the very heart of t @ town. “There in the narrow streets the carnage was indescribable. A French fmfantryman told me that the roads became so jammed with dead that the kilied remained standing upright ‘where they had been shot, supported by their dead comrades. The last stand of the French was made before the sailway station, in front of which passes the canal. Here the Germans fought for two hours to take the bridge. After they had captured the station with heavy casualties, the Germans moved rapidly ahead, taking various suburban villages. STARVING TOURSTSTALYS SUNY SONS IN ERMANY FLEE | SHOT PRES HH INTO SHTERLAN} ON THE ANEREAS Declare American Women Are Treated Discourteously and Forced From Hotels. t Homecomers on Italian Ship Say Hotels Literally Held Them Up. GENEVA, Switserland, Tuesday, Aug. %—(via. Paris, Aug. 26, Asso- Giated Press).—Four Americans made their way on foot into Switzerland ecross the German frontier at Basel yesterday. They were without money and had been without food for some time. Their names have not been earned. Fragmentary information reaching Americans here by letter from Ger- many indicates that there are atill many American tourists stranded in ‘hotels and boarding houses in German cities, They are mostly women, and fm many cases their financial re- wources are limited. Some of them have mo money at all. They are de- ‘Two hundred and seventy-six Amer- {can refugees who arrived to-day aboard the Italian line steamship Taormina, sixteen days out of Genoa, united in a hearty protest against the special forms of brigandage invented in Italy to fit Americans who find themselves stranded there or battling for place on anything floatable that is bound toward America, From the fifty Americans in the eteerage to Yhose lucky enough to have first cabing the wail was unanimous: “They're sandbagging Americans in sunny Italy.” ‘William J. Baxter of No. 353 West Eighty-fifth street, and a well known cotton ker on the Exchange, gave his sufferings under the hands of the helpful Italiane as typical. “I had $10,000 in bankers’ checks when war came,” he said, “but I found at first I couldn't raise a lire on any of that paper. I had been caught in Lucerne, Switzerland, when my French chauffeur, who was taking Walter Lang and myself through France, deserted me to join his regi- ment. What iittle ready money we bad got us through Italy, and there Pirates got after us, LIVING CO8T MULTIPLIED BY Four. “We were charged tremendous percentage on exchange; charged four kinds of prices by the hotels; charged double even for such necessi- ties as drinks, Then when it came to getting steamship tick I had to streets without their baggage. gome extreme cases they have bad to gell their clothes for food. ANTWERP (Via Paris), Aus. 26 (Associated Press).—All the American tourists have left for home by way of i s3? Hi werk. American interests are slip man several hundred dollars to earefuity watched and get any kind of @ ticket, pay extra (me authorities, All for the ticket and then when I got Jem the city. The author of aboard pay extra for my stateroom. qgatch to not permt! Ab, it's @ merry life they have in ‘wer news. Italy right now!" ana AVIATOS ‘Welter Lang, Baxter's travelling ‘ORS companion, eald that at sea he had eee LINES; made @ unique trade with Commander if Carlo Pfister of the Royal Italian TO SELL FROZEN MEATS.|Navy. The Italian commander occu- pied an adjoining stateroom, and one PARIS, day when Lang complained to the Commander that the cockroaches puiled the sheets off his berth at niyht Commander Pfister’s eyes light- ed with a happy thought. “Let me so much as borrow from you @ hatful of cockroaches,” he pleaded. “They are good for—ahi— for what I have in my stateroom.” ‘The hatful of Italian light cavalry ‘was passed over with many felicita- tions, Confirming the tale of the high seas Wineiqp- Commander Pistar Hi The British | ; BPEL QOSISIVIGS FIL IDISTH-OF-F-6 FOG FOGTF4SF4 FFGHGEOITE SHOT OOSHOS © | of Belgium on Way to Visit |I\ OF TEPPFIING ueciunted Soldiers Honpitata AEOF ZEPPELINS SOHO EGOS DODD DEDDDE HOHEDOOH DEH ET EOE OD 4H oe ® : * * “ BASIS OF PROTEST ay 4 P hi Throwing of Bombs on Sleep- be \ $| ing People Arouses Bitterest Indignation. WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—Minister Havenith of Belgium, on behalf of the Belgian Foreign Minis filed a pro- test with Secretary of State Bryan to-day against the depredations of the German dirigible Zeppelins over Antwerp, causing the death of many non-combatants, Secretary Bryan acknowledged the receipt of the pro- test, but declined to take any further stops at this time. The protest was as follows: “During the night of the 24th to 25th a dirigible ball pelin—fi ity werp at a height and threw euccessfully eight bembe ef great exploding strength. “According te our investiga- tion, conducted by the Judicial court, there have been ten killed, harmless civilians, among them being four women; eight have been injured, several mor- tally. One bomb has been ex- palace where royal children wore living. The material dam- » The bom- bardment constitutes a violation of Act 26 of the first convention of The Hague.” LONDON, Aug. 26.—The fiercest anger marks the protests of people of all walks of life against the bombard- ment of Antwerp and her hospitals by bombs from a Zeppelin dirigibie. England has worried for years over the possibility of such an attack on non-combatants by German war bal- loons. There has ever been an an- dercurrent of fear among Englishmen that the Germans “might so far nore the rules of civilization as to perpetrate such an outrage; these fears have been confirmed by the despatches from Antwerp,” says one English paper. Every power in the Allies ie pre- paring an appeal to the civilized world against the violation of the international code, The Chronicle correspondent in Antwerp describes it as “most tragic night of war.” “For the first time in history a great civilized com- munity,” he says, “has been bem- barded from the eky In the darkness of the night. int Zeppelin, whem the Kaiser called the greatest genius ef the century, has perfermed the greatest explelt of hie life. He well may reud of his achievement. He has mangled and slaughtered non- belligerents, men, women and oh dren; he has thrown bembe on hee- pitale where Belgians were tending Ggrman weunded; he hae staggered humanity. “On Aug. German commander warned Gen. Leman, at Liege, that if the forts did not surrender the Zeppelin fleet would move at once. Fort Liege did net surrender and the Germans have been as good as their word—they have eurpacedd them- selves in the art of striking terror and they have placed themselves out- side the pale of humanity. “So far I have found ten bombs in ten different streets. it is impossibie it accurate statistics, In jon there were about 900 ightly dama sixty houses nearly destroyed. number of victims is unknown.” AMSTERDAM, Aug. 36.—When the Germans committed the murderous outrage of attempting to destroy the Royal family of Belgium by dropping bombs from a Zeppelin on the royal palace in Antwerp, the first doctor to arrive on the scene was Surgeon Maj. Louis Livingston New York, the noted traveller, author and lecturer, and head of the Ameri- can Red Cross. PDVOPOERG HLH ODEO OOH NEW ATTACK BY ZEPPELIN IS REPULSED AT ANTWERP King and Queen of Belgium Are Forced to Go in Hiding as a Result of the Bomb-Dropping Episode. LONDON, Aug. 26 [Associated Press].—A despatch to the Reuter Telegram Company from its Antwerp correspondent says that another raid on the city by a Zeppelin airship was attempted last night. The ef- fective measures taken by the Belgian military authorities, the corre- spondent continues, caused the German airship to retire. The Belgian royal family will abandon the temporary palace, es- tablishing themselves in a secret place in the city as « result of the at- tack by a Zeppelin airship, according to the Morning Post’s correspond- ent at Antwerp. “The attack,” he adds, “was evidently designed against the royal family. The warrior of the air stole silently over the forts outside the city against which no assault was made and steered toward the palace, where it dropped six explosive bombs. None found the mark exactly, though all landed within the palace grounds. One narrowly escaped wrecking the Antwerp Cathedral and three found human victims.” word as’ to relations between his country and Italy. “My migston to this country is to buy coal,” he said, “The Government Louis were travelli: ia mati been when war overtook them: They left| DF. Seaman, whe to-day has the port of Cattaro the day before it |attending to the wound: was bombarded by the allied English He oald that In and Frenoh fleets. Mrs. Cook and the is trying to lay in a supply of coal|courter they had employed 5 re in China, he never has ngainae eventuatitio, “War Detwoen|tetod_ aa spin ih vinta Secaune ae'ths clgnt of three young ti Italy and Austria is more than a/ OTe .0m Fk a i er Kd defaced and probability; {t may occur any day.” AMERICANS TOLD THEY WOULD BE SHOT. Dr. John Riegleman, Coroner's Phy- siclan of the Bronx; Dr. Edward L. Corbett, also of the Bronx, and Jobn W. Fincke, who were travelling com- panions in Austria when war was declared by Austria against Servia, had the unpleasant experience of be- ing told they probably would be shot within the hour. This was after their | T: arrest in a little border town of Ger- many, where they were fleeing in an effort to get to Munich. They had cémeras in their party and many rolls of pictures taken of mobilizing troops, fortified positions and such dangerous scenes, The three Americans were thrown in @ dungeon, and after the film packs fm their cameras had been developed an officer came to the door of thetr cell and informed them that they had about one more hour to live, Their protestations of American citizenship, which unfortunately they were un- Bigin road 1a, Ged 4m St. Joseph’ bh | joapt ~ 0 ving she onc ith parr, foal | Hate Sacaatehe” onr i ‘won ‘ly several body and to Munich under |. There the | "a" nee? Coast Stvapeats oat [Regen lal iat ek and Ms Di G Cook of Ot Tresiem B. ie ther, all attacked SAILING OF OCEANA FOR ITALY CANCELLED Christobal, That Was to Bring American Refugees Home, Won't Sail Either. The Delaware and Hudson Steam- ship Company cancelled to-day the galling of its steamship Oceana for Genoa, Italy, Aug. 29. The action was taken upon orders from the officers of the line in Italy. At the steamship offices of the line here it was said it was their under- standing that the United States Gov- ernment had also cancelled the sall- ing of the steamship Christobal, which was to have gone to Italian ports to bring back American refugees, The Oceana was to have brought back refugees and 200 pas- sengers had engaged passage for the trip to Genoa. The Itallan office of the Delaware Gislag ‘the Oceana ‘tele ts bere Taormina was held up at Gb- raltar by a British warship, and yaeees Fee craiare K simiter na- lonality between Nantucket and Fi; He nd Fire pe ee LLOYD GEORGE’S SON HERE. Way to Join Hi Regiment. Aboard the Royal Mall line steamer from Trinidad, Barba- id Kingston, was Richard Lioyd son of the British Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was doing en- gineering work in Colombia when he heard of the war and is now on bis way home to join his regiment. Lieut, W. Ascoli and Lieut. G. Henning, bot bps) army men, boarded the ny ip at Kingston. ‘The Tagus's passengers report that the French crulser Conde lay in Kingston Harbor when the boat e. ——_—.—_ - Second Auto Race Victim Dead. ELGIN, Il, Aug, %.—John W. Jenter, mechanician for Spencer Wishart, noted auto driver killed in last Saturday's of | France was the Cunarder Campania, gen: be | oti LAFRANCESAILS | TOKILL WOMENS | WITH RESERVISTS AS WOMEN WEP Officers of Liner Forced to Part Them From Depart- ing Husbands, A young woman, all a-tremble, straining against the pier-head rail, the tears streaming down her die- torted face, her hands, with the glint of & wedding band upon o finger, atretched out in an ecatacy of yearn- ing; at the steamer’s rail a young man, with the flag of France across hia breast, his mouth as firm as he could make it and hi res filled with wondering whether he shéuld ever eee her again; a few feet away an excited Swiss, waving hin white- crossed flag and screaming the “Mareelliaise;” @ little beyond, « bugler blowing the “Charge!” and in the midst of it all a benevolent faced Cardinal, looking on with a doubly saddened face as he set hie feet toward Rome—this was the way the French liner La France sailed for Havre to-day witti her loyal lit- tle band of reservists. The Cardinal sailing for Rome to attend the Consistory is Cardinal Louls Nazaire Bogin of Quebec. He ‘was accompanied by his secretary, Father Eugene C. Laflamme. The Cardinal said: “About Atty Cardinals will meet tn Rome to elect the new Pope and majority of two-thirds will be necen- sary to a choice. Owing to Italy's neutrality, it seems likely that the next Pope will be an Italian. While there is no one man standing out prominently for the Papal seat, there are three Italian candidates who are very prominent. I'd rather not men- tion their names. b “But with all the thoughts that fill my mind as to my journey to Rome T cannot rid it of the sorrow that this great war is causing me. It ts de- There were about one hundred and seventy-five French reservists and sixty Belgians in the cabins and steerage, going back with all the stolidity they could muster to the call to the colors, The ship was aflutter with flags and scarcely a soul oD board but carried a ribbon on his coat. La France had only Sfty in her firat cabin, seventy in her second and 900 in her steerage, one of the smallest sts she bas ever carried. EASTSIDE BOYCOTT ON MEAT MAKES BI HOLE NBLSAESS Getricta where people are more pees= Derous. tn the fashionable market district on Madison and Sixth avenue, be- tween Thirtieth and Fifty-ninth © streets, to-day it was found that” prices on many varieties of foed- stuffs were beyond all reason, chief among these being certain cuts of beef, butter, exam and vegetables of many sorts. Sirloin steak that retails at Waste ington Market for 26 centa a pound {a bringing 32 and 36 cents in many markets uptown. The butchers age sert they are forced to charge euch prices because their Fifth avenue patrons demand the fanclest grades, Little explanation of the reagon for 50 cent butter and 45 cent ogee was made by the dealers, and the few that offered excuses said they “expected the wholesalers or import~ ers to raine the price.” Vegetables retailing on the west side and dows town for moderate prices were found to be exceptionally high, Notable in the Ist was corn, which In most dis- tricts retails for 1 cent an ear, Om Sixth avenue to-day it was bringing 35 cents a dozen ears. On the lower east side butter whieh Is bought at wholesale at 20 cents s pound is retailing at 30 cents. The dealers insist they are paying 25 conta a pound for it. Eggs of the better grade are bringing 3% cents. They cont 29 cents, Further uptown. tn the sections ine habited by the fairly well-to-do, butter Is retailing at 40 cents a pound, though it Is bought for 29 cents, Egge cost 40 cents. In No two sections do prices core respond. No explanation of this eu+ rious fact Is attempted. Fow! Is rolling for from 1 to 3 cents lean thin month taan in August, 1913, Grocers Find Out, Also, That Their High Prices Have Cut Sales, The east side has stopped eating beef. Investigation among the hun- dreds of small butcher shops from Chatham Square to the East River shows tbat business has fallen off 80 per cent. in three weeks. Grocers In the same section say that they have been forced to raise prices, and purchases have fallen off to an alarming extent. “They're not boycotting us,” sald Franz Hoagfeldt, a grocer on lower Roosevelt street. “They're just not eating. Their fathers and mothers are out of work. The whole district is demoralized. It's much worse than last winter or during the panic of 1907," The importing houses of lower Manhattan are feeling the same strain, Seven have gone into bank- ruptcy in the past three weeks. The importing business is dead, and while, five or six houses made amasing Profits on stocks in their warehou when the war came, most of them were caught unprepared and with huge contracts to fulfl, Five ships have been chartered this woek to send flour and grain to Great Britain, Norway, Spain and Italy. Many ships already have carried vast stores of foodstuffs to Rotterdam, where they can easily be distributed. Eleven thousand barrels of four have been shipped to Europe from New York during the past twenty-four hours. This would have supplied New York for a week. More than 100,000 been sold to European Monday morning. While the big sugar interests are walling over the small supply and the absolute necessity of raising prices, smaller companies to-day announced cuts of from % to % cent @ pound. One of the principal reasons given by the big sugar Interests for rais- ing their prices was that they would be forced to replenish their stores at muc® higher prices, and therefore were compelled to boost the quota- tions of present stock. The plaint that sugar production is short this year cannot be proved before De- comber, when the full sugar reports are compiled, During the past week Cuba sent 33,000 tons to the United States as compared with 14,000 tons loin steak costs from 25 to 28 cents & pound, a fowl costs only 20 cents @ pound and contains less boner te District-Attorney Cropsey, a bls John Doe investigation before Justice Benedict in Brooklyn regarding food prices to-day, had before him a nume r of retail grocers. The first, Joha ‘ully, assistant superintendent of the eighty-five Brooklyn stores of Great here oc deti Lee pe Tea Com- pany, # at all the date regarding the fixing of prices of his company were in the home office in Jersey City and. promised to appear with them later. One of the distinguished passengers was the Hon. William G. Sharp of Ohio, the new Ambassador to France, who ts going to help Ambassador Her- rick with the work which has lately fallen so heavily upon bis shoulders. Robert Bacon, an ex-Ambassador to France, was another passenger, also bound for Paris. Mr. Bacon said that his vistt was entirely a matter of per- sonal business. Ambassador Sharp, who was quar- tered in one of the cabins de luxe was accompanied by his seventeen- year-old son George. Just before sailing Mr. Sharp said: “It was my intention to sail on the Provence, but the French Gov- ernment commandeered her and this was the firet ship I could get. I am going over to do all I can to help Mr, Herrick, who is already bur- dened down with the tasks that have fallen to him. I shall not present my credentials until all Mr. Her- rick’s work is done, because by do- ing 80 he would be automatically re- moved from office, and that is not the present intention. Just a few minutes ahead of La and she too was wished a successful voyage with a flag dipped in salute ‘es she turned her bows southward. —— THIRD SON OF KAISER, PRINCE ADALBERT, WEDS THE PRINCESS ADELAIDE COPENHAGEN, Aug, % (United Press).—Berlin advices via the frontier say that Prince Adalbert, third son of the Kaiser, was married on Monday to the Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meinin- . Prince Adal- rt * Wed 1884, Fe og aMeltide Is the daughte Geor' Il, the reigning Duke of & Getnfagen:et-Hildbourghausen, Adalbert ts ‘officer | German Navy, juty with the fleet in the Pie ar the entrance to the North i Re: ‘and his rot For “LAX; in 1912 and 43,000 tons in 1918. At Cuban porta now, awaiting shipment, Are 230,000 tons, while last year at this time but 65,000 tons were in the warehouses. One of the phases of the food situ- . ation that most amazes investigators for various city and Federal depart- ments is the strange discrepancy in prices existing in different sections of the city. Prices are raised in poorer sections of Manhattan, while they remain the same in residential Last Weeh of Our Biggest Aut Greatest Reductions! Largest Variety! Savings of to Per Cent Your Own Salesman Plain Figure Ta in Everythin, Dining Table In Quartered Oak, golden fin- h, highly polished, with mas- sive pillar, heavy claw feet. Siz feet extension. Aa illustrated, Value $30. $49.98 W. L. DOUCLAS '31°4 & '4il SHOR yet there is small demand. While air- \ {9 a