The evening world. Newspaper, September 9, 1914, Page 2

sssing the opinion that the seat of government will ) meved back to Paris. . the first time since the war began the Germans Geclared to be outnumbered. HH NOW OUTNUMBER THE GERMANS. + Gen. Paul Pau, who is now in command of the French nas at least 25,000 men more than are facing him. | The French left, which has in enormous damage the army of General von KI: which is commanded y Field Marshal Sir John Fi 1s also numerically sue to the Germans, having been heavilf reinforced from @ French reserves in the south. Hundreds of wounded were brought from the front yy. They declare the French ft has taken thousands They also insist that the losses of the French- > British on the offensive are far smaller than were the losses the Germans under similar circumstances. That the German movement is actually a retreat and “not @ strategic proposition is declared in reports from the front that there are thousands of and woufded Germans “in the territory now occupied by allies. The French are inflicting enormous damage on the Ger- who are reported as fighting with far less vim than in stages of the struggle. stage had is reported as steadily advancing, al- ibassador Herrick to-day notified all Americans who the city without any. real business td leave at ence. it plain the Prench Government feels that Ameri- is who “want to stay and see the fun" are distinctly not| 5 ted here. 4s" "There is still grave danger of an attack on the city. » Althpagh the reports from the front continue to insist that | J , the German forces bre still beaten, and Ambassador Horfich dut ‘of the city. Stories of wounded soldiers who reached Parle late, indicate that the result of the tlifee days’ fighting | Champagn countty has been more favorable for | than at first supposed. Thay say the German Sim Killed were enormous and that a great auinber were taken. One French officer estimates the at 30,000. The Champagne district inctades parts ee Ardennes, Aube and Haute- GERMAN REPORT OF ALLIES’ CAMPAIGN | BERLIN (via The Hague), Sept. 9 (United Press}.— n trains are reported running directly into France the north to a point twenty-two miles south of Sedan. engineers are restoring destroyed roadbed and tunnels and communication with the front is from a number of points. The Government, in posted bulletins, declares that the fle Is still in progress in France, with the Germans in- ng enormous damage on the énemy. It is plain, *how- from the general tone of the announcements that the of the Russians in the east is now engaging the Hon of the General Staff. fin fact, there have been rumors in circulation for two - pda the main armies that have been operating been withdrawn to meet the Russian attack, havuig elit, talons hy (88660 token the free ‘Gens. von Gotha and Nieland are reported killed in The Bavarian troops have lost heavily, and there is ly a prominent Bavarian family that has not lost a in the recent fighting. [The official register of the German army for the year 4913 does not contain any officer named Von Gotha, and the aly officer named Nieland bs we who in 1943 > was in command of the Baden try regiment No. 113, It Is possible, however, that promotions have been made the outbreak of the war.] Thousands of wounded are being rushed to the newly d field hospitals in the interior. Only those whose ition makes it impossible to move them are being left tt tied field hospitals. 4 [The intimation in the above despatch that some of the | German armies may have been withdrawn to oppose the Russian fi ‘may explain the shortening of the Getntan lines of in France and the change to a defensive campaign at ‘Certain points. } BASEL, Switzerland, Sept. 9 [United Press}.—It is re- Pr here that the Germans have definitely evacuated Alsace because of the necessity of utilizing every man in the fighting In East Pruésia. [A Basel despatch to the United Press on Sept. 2 stated fhhat five army corps which had been operating in upper Alsace had been withdrawn for service on the eastern frontier. At that time it was stated that only 30,000 men had been left behind to mask the fortress of Belfort, To-day’s advices would indicate THE EVENING WORLD, WED MAUBEUGE REPORTED CAPTURED BY GERMANS WITH140,000 PRISONERS Germans Say Four Generals and 400 $ Guns Surrendetred, but French’ Deny Great Fortress Has Given Up “Heroic Defense.” BERLIN, Sept. 9 (by wireless telegraphy tothe Associated Press by way of Sayville, L. 1.)—Official announcement was made to-day at army headquarters that the French ama | | Ve ' | | \ | of Maubeuge, on the Sombre River, had fallen. The Germans took 40,000 prisoners, including four gen-| ‘ erals. Four hundred guns also were captured. Prince Frederick William of Hesse has been wounded. | ([Maubeuge is a French fortress Of the first class. It fs Stuated In the Department du Nord, about six miles from the Belgian frontier. The German onslaughts have been de- termined for a week or more. Despatches from London, under date of Sept. 5, said part of the British expeditionary force was at Maubuege, assisting the French garrison. The German General Staff announced in Berlin Sept. 6 that two of the Maubeuge forts had fallen, and that the fire of the German artillery was being directed against the town, which was in flames. Om the same day an official communication in Paris said that Maubeuge continued its heroic resistance. A French official announcement under date of Sept. 7 re- ferred to the French defense of Maubeuge as follows: “The Minister of War has telegraphed to the Governor of Maubeuge expressing the Government’s admiration for the heroic defense and saying: ‘You stop at nothing to prolong re- sistance until the hour of your approaching deliverance, which | hope will be soon.’ “The Commander-in-Chief has placed che name of the | Governor of Maubeuge in the order of the day for his splendid defense.”] French War Office Denies Maubeuge Has Surrendered':: BORDEUX, Franc®, September 9 [United Press.).— “The defense of Maubeuge continues heroically against the strong German forces and the heavy German siege guns.” 9909296-8. 0 2OOHSETES OE ‘This statement is in direct contradiction of that issued by the German War Office to-day, in which it was declared that Maubeuge had fallen before the Germans with a loss of 40,000 men, four Generals and 400 guns. FOUR ARE KILLED WHEN AUTO CRASHES INTO LOCOMOTIVE «Continued from First Page.) not know of the fatality at the rail- road crossing until told by an Even- ing World reporter. They left im- mediately for Ocean City to bring back the bodies of Mr. end Mrs, ‘Wood. John N. Ryan, the sole survivor of the tragedy, lives with his wife and month-old baby at the corner of Co- avenue and Seventy-third . irs. Ryan was expectiig early to-day that Mrs. Wood wouhi pal}, tox her to go downtown on a shoping tour, When Mra. Wood failed to jap, Pear, Mrs. Ryan apartment tn Went One “uddre? und Fifteenth street, on the telephote, to discover that Mra. Wood's mother, Mra. Clark, was there, waiting Yor her daughter's return, Neither heard for several hours of the fatality ut Paler- mo, Mrs. Ryan left for Ocean City ax nodn &s she was told of her hus- band's condition. Matthew #, Borden onoe read his name from one end of the coustry to the other as “the man who gavo up millions for a bride.” ‘Thmt was when he was a junior in the class of ‘4 at Yale, and the romahce begin- then with his renunciation of an anheritance contimued ‘unth ‘the last ling at a rate, blocked the ‘The chauffeur gave his wheel a wrench in an effort to nd run along the track ahead gf the engine. The machine skidded and banged against the forward driv- tng wheel of the locomotive. The im- pact lifted the automobile off the ground and hurled it againat the side oO the box station. ‘The engineér Brought Mm train to a Mop as quickly as be could and ran back with the ¢raln grew $p sea what damage had been done. They found the bodies of Mr. and Mra, Wood, Jelasped in each other's arma, lying |mear the station pintform, ‘Borden's body, caught by the locomotive's driv- called the Wood] fact Y, _surremaan ®,. 18 DECLARE GEIMANS EVACUATED ALSACE TO FIGHT I. IN RUSSIA| [Srrrerrmesnehesre net ne ae ew SRE Bee HBS, Paver Tevere Tee ereeTy wi ite ut &, pen: Ine codiett to his will ripulated one unless bis son ik ho} id secure | ftom bai ang 10 $3.18 ping Me | his share in the estate | ghouta & divided between two other Borden clung to his bride of coll days, ons when his father gel bey ty 3 1912 he learned that ly lost ere than two millions as of » On Taly 26 Ay wate year, when a complete of the Borden estate was j ater ants with heputy State Comptroller | Buckley, it was announced that t 00 had been made upon Dim in je upon y tram H. and Howard 8. Pa 3 brothers. On that same day Borden's car, which be was driving, struck the horee ‘of Mounted Policeman John Mee, attached to the Filuehing Broadway and Fiush' Young | marked by other unconventionadities ee Fae sup! " Fecktessly” gore radavec! exploits were re the ES ‘The extent to for several mo months had by pao Raliroad_ add a train edul that vomatt™ night =o ei ne Sunday fa re ,{ On July 30 I was not far from Liege, ang the y on thap Ki Hupdred ry A ‘West eae shared ‘with t street, Se oe 1910, When the “When will they really thy one of the diversions ya. is arose from the nor his bride "Charl of No 80 Bergen Mreat, Brooklyn, seemed to have any agreement on this {m- Pore ante Was'tor July 2 at the Chureh Arouni ie Corner, rye the ativance notices of the affair w in the hands of so- oy se ail roung Wood anndunced he event was to take place ill Wether sositivel would not be any wedding. ‘A litt! Ww tiff,” ox. Plained the bride's mother. The “tift” healed Ct Wood and Miss Clark hie to Al tic CI for a quick wedding. ‘They found that the now twenty-four-hour taw barréd them In Jersey and had to ‘come back, still . Finally the knot waa tled tn Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Chureh. this . which We ‘ras rode was shown hen, hie. father | ‘that this last force has been withdrawn and that the French can feotcupy Altkirch and Muelhausen at will.) Moods in China Check Japanese War on Germans DELO, Sept. %—Torrential rains, resulted in record breaking on the Shantung Peninsula. As the Japanese !and operations the German positions et Kiao- wy have been suspended. ‘War Office says that the floods ‘the greatest in thirty years. rt Germans have constructed ‘proof shelters over exposed po- wn to ward off the aeria) attacks the Japanese aviators ead Pe the avet, Japanese Gove.nment an- (to-day that Great Britain] 78! rmed France and Russia that A, Bie without the previous consent of the other two, must not be .cgarded as modifying the British alliance with Japan, with Whom Great Britain acts ta commen in the condect bf the war or jn the making ef peace, ‘The Japahese Diet teres to- wn adopted the war programme of the Japanese Government. ti provides for a war sHooate yen about appro alg of pant JHANGHAL, Chine, Sept. 9—Re- Sikes aya ers and literally out to pleces, was dis- covered under the engine wheels, 600 feet from the or: e accl~ dent occurred, Gi io chauf- feur, was thrown f: feet down the track and his back was 3 Ryan, ing nearly t Merdad Ae the oh, Vas Boat breathing Doctors were summoned by ti Phone by the train mem, and th bodies of the victimg were taken to an undertaking establishment in Ocean City.’ Ryan, whone ife, the physicians hope to was re- moved to the Goeantc He has had few lucid momenta since the ac- cident and can give no connected account of the tragedy. Dr. Lakel and’ has taken charge of the investigation, In Borden's pockets were found several newspaper clippings telling of his father's efforte to te him from his wife by tlired: of @lsinheri- tance and one giving an aocount of the settlement reéently made on him by his brotiiers. chapter of it was written in the law courts only a month afo.; The son of M, ©. Borden, many times @ millionaire and cotten print manufacturer of Fall Tt met Mildred NegWauer, the n: year-old daughter of a Cha; tailor to college gan, ip is “thin third ir bo Bet cy like many other y of the campus, —< LF ore wae ter, Borel oe ry lather got win Of. the. ingaten! Mat hla logal ad a nating Ries godfather, to New H.: advise him to break off the lov. at once on pala of ie distoberita ee eet aco ay . came boiling up to Yale @ jong conversation with "se talloi go widow of aauettere on remained J. H, Wood of No, 182 Nassau| bi the father of J. Harvey Weed, Ee Saeeeapenerane CAPTURE GERMAN TRAWLER, FLYING ENGLISH ENSIGN, PUTTING MINES IN SEA. LONDON, Sept. 9 (Central News Cable).—A trawler which has put into port reporte that a British gunboat eaptured a trawler North Sea which purported ia than 8" mines were puna ‘on board. a MISS GAYNOR TO WED. Daughter of Late Mayor Takes Out Ma: we License, Following the taking out of a mar- riage license in the Brooklyn branch of the City Clerk's office to- Tront wae yaa ge, ‘by Mra. Med get 2 Sere ma Gtinfon - {san s, ™. me HOw EUROPE WILL LOOK IF KAISER WINS (From the Philadeiphie Record.) ie wf ‘it AUSTRIA MUNGARY % all that could be done to avert pesti- lence. I will swear that the dead Wete piled #ix feet high as they jay wien we went to them. One 4ad fallen on top of nnother. There were Wounded. We carried them back to Liege. My troop remained around Léege till Aug. &,, when we went to and there we stayed till Aug. 1! did no fighting. All we knew tha@the Germans were all ‘ » They were swarming through country Jike ante. Ffom Mélines we went to Tit. mont with orders to get calssone bring them back to Malines, We doing that work—hauling al tin and heavy erdnance—till Aug. 17, when, we Went to Louvain, reach- ing there on Aug. 18 and being or- dered toward the border between Diest and Holland. Uhlans were there, we were told. . Our 3,000 men had orders to reat the whi We did not suspect that ‘an enor German army was ahead les ween “Diet and Holland we were almost completely surrounded by Germans—uhlans and infantey. ‘There were 9,000 of them who cov- @ted three of our sides. We did not know their numbers. We thought we merely had to cope with a body of uhlans. Word had come to us that Germans were pillaging homes. On the evening of Aug. 18 swale oiehted Pt Then was Story i ‘amt | commander gave the order to @! $ | At the same time the uhiane It was just at dusk. We lances, When the troops wag with terrible forge, hi Boty pie : mal died. we twelve miles. back Lwas wounded. ‘The coi ‘s officer asked for volu 2. /ride .petund.with a laptare | lead the Germans to believ: 4] WOUNDED BELGIAN HERE ; TELLS GRAPHIC TALE OF HS 35 EXPERIENCE ON FARING UNE The following simple yet tntensely, drametic storw.ws the fighting in Belgium twas prepared for The Ryvening World. thie afternoon by Alot# van Nieuwenhuyse of the Belgium army, who was wounded in action near Diest on Aug. (0, was discharged as wounded soldier and arrived in New York to-day on the steamship Lapland. Van Niewenhujee te the first man wounded in the Eu- ropean war to reach the United States. His story ts the frat from & soldier who hae econ actual fighting to escape the censorship of the Germana and the atites. By Alois van Nieuwenhnyse. Trooper of the First Guides, Sixth Division, of thé Bélgian Army. My home is in the United States, It ip at Kewanee, Ill. I work tor Mr. D. K, Rodd of Gibson City, TI, who'ls @hofée fimeter, 1 dm 4 Befgian by nativity. Early in July Mr. Rodd sent me to Belgium to get some blooded horses, Giny mébhife- ing. The Germans were getting ready t6 invade our epentry, ater! ‘want $o say the Belgians were very much entaged. I had served in the army from] eoution. .The eavalry w: t used 1904 to 1908 and 90 Le in thie time) thqn. | We eat bn our ‘fo and on the second call for reserves and! y+ 164 see wiguabter.. Jt has the was gent to Malines, ‘There T was) TOSiT Te tind acon actual wa held for one day and the next day] oo 1) awe heen & kid if Tw my troop—the First Guides—was rent frightened, 1 was not to Brussels, Then we headed for] oii ee een hort Liege, The Germans then were ad-| (0° 7 Ae is ss) inane vancing on Liege. wotla As We approached the city the Bel- gians knelt in the roadway and prayed for us, They urged us to fight the Germans till we died. We waved our hats and replied tit we would. Now, I could have fled from Bel- gium at the second call, but auch a thought nevér entered my head. I had good employment ip Mlinots, but my heart went ont to my country in the time of its great peril, and #o as 1 rode toward Liege carrying a lance, with a sword at my side, a pistol and @ carbine, I felt brave and atrong be- cause T knew I was doing right, | “When we reached Liege it was Monday, and the Germans then were | invading Belgian territory and be Ing toward the city we were { fend, Every one here must have read , of Liege--of ita ring of forts only a} few miles apart. Well, the troops! were statfoned between those fe The infantry occupied positions : the front. We of the Guides—or vav- | alry—were back in the city I could see the Germans beuring down on Liege. They came in divi- sions—3,000 men at a time. The; formed a solid line about two miles in width. The Belgians would wai: till they got within about 200 yarns and then they would open up wilh their rapid-fire guns. The Germans were mowed down. « tell you, it was like a farmer goin: through @ wheat field with a harvest - ing machine, Each division as it a:! vanced was practically annihilated. The rapid-fire guus would sweep et] through the ranks and I could see/ My hen’ time country The fight lasted all day. Many Belgiana Were killed, gf course, But 1 know that the number of dead Germans was 17,000, 1 suw the drékdful heaps of bodies because that evening we of the Guides were went oilt to “Gispose” of the them, “*Ve Pfled them Up and put hay on them and @et fife fo them, and then we poured quicktime over them. Jt was Pow warrh in Waves, and every | f beloved bathe Fev RWW Tone Gore mans I would want to leap forward. | was out ammunition wagons. those chonén to carry a light ie 1 was dolng so a MaGser bullet struck me ip the left lég.. No sur- Goes wre nésr. & wound was not rd awed telly halted in peat field near Bi t and th dc ny att mans and Killed of them. on ngned ~ ‘we went to Low \( Be. Bitar ‘th oe at Lier “Until Ai an ont with where pany to Sent -five men of us cet 00 rane, Au but sevénteen of our ae ae idlled. ennspenest another horse mo I grabbed e hich s German nad failen aword during the rest of ‘Three hundred polit ‘that man 3 far himself. ‘One fed to og in ot EA “Stop pe iting. et I Rew ‘ur some more Germans. go back CapOtin Almebt Redrad. Police Gaptain <eonge A. Ajomcle. Commander of the Two. paki 3 ured on ab es itafen 01 In £1ty-deven bi A . ‘as wepppinied, Mar March 16, ] 4. GULDEN'S PURE—DELICIOVe WHOLESOME TRY IT ON Chope Steaks Roast Bert Cored Beef S usages 10 CEUES. Malbes ¢ Cold & Hot Meats Tasty ond pie Sauce by ling Vo '* aad Grccory, Blake. eial Tor Tnurede eAM CA ae cA CHOCOLATE COVERED MAULON MINTA-~A Ls ow = Me Boe