The evening world. Newspaper, September 18, 1914, Page 3

RUSSIANS REPULSED WITH GREAT LOSS ALONG SAN RIVER Austrians Say Their First Real Battle Is On, Directed by | Kaiser's Staff. FACING ENEMY UNITED. Stand Before Przemysl by Re- formed Austrian Armies and Germans. VIENNA, Sept. 18 (via Rome).—It was officially announced here to-day that German high officials have joined Grand Duke Francis Frederick, in command of the combined Austrian armies, and are directing a great battle now In progress west of Lem- berg all along the lines the San River. The Russian attempt to carry the fortified lines extending from Prremys! to Jaroslaw by storm failed. The Austrian lines held fast and the Russians were thrown back with enormous losses. The fighting is now general afl along the line, The Aus- trian armies have combined and are now heavily reinforced. ‘They are fol- lowing out lines of defense determined upon by the German General Staff, which has now accepted the respon- sibility of directing the campaign in Galicia. Tho Russians are in great strength but they now facing the first real defe by the Austrians. Hartofore the Austrians have been fighting in the open country where the superiority the are of placed them at an aterial nse was also nof Russian The the in’ Poland, h drew from Galicia troops that were badly needed there. This has been remedied. Not only are the Austrian armies unt but they have been reinforced by first line German artillery and it is be- leved that they will now be able to The consta be the check the Rusian invasion, man reinforcements are wriving. Meanwhile, it object of the Austrians to h th ase the | n concen: | rmies until | Russians and prevent trating their enormous the @mbined Austro-Germanic line is strong enough to withstand the) shock of a general assault, | ‘The ontire Austrian armies are now | united, The right wing, now com- manded by Gen. Boroevic, centres at Drohobycz and holds the railway Une from there to Chyrow, thus in- uring an excellent line of retreat sbould it be too hard pressed by the Russian armics reported advancing from Stryj. The left, commanded by Gen, Dankl, who now has the assist- ance of the Archduke “‘rancis Fred- erick, mainta @ position extending from the Vistula River, near the Rus- sian frontier, to the extreme left of Gen. von Auffenberg’s central army at Japosiaw. Advices received from East Prussia show that Gen. von Hindenberg ta making a supreme effort to annihilate the Russian armies of Gen, Rennen- kampf. His troops have succeeded in driving a good part of the Russian forces into marshy lands, from which they have been unable to extricate themselves, It ts plain that it is the intention of the Germans to invade Russian Poland and the activity in Bast Prussia now is for the purpose of so crushing Rennenkampf's armics Called Belgium’ 8 Greatest Hero; Killed Famous German General ONDE oe Jd ROUSSEAU J. q, Rousseau of the Fourth Regiment de Chasseurs-a-Cheval, trom | Louvain, was lying wounded when a German general approached. He | Killed the general, took his uniform, despatch case and 165,000 francs and | fled into the Belgian lines, His victim was Gen. von Buclow (not the corps| commander), relative of the former German Chancellor. Rous: presented by the King of Belgium with a military go | wearing) and will receive the Order of Leopold, equivalent to the British | Victoria Cross. The money he took from von Buclow was delivered to th: Belgian Red Cross. | RUSSIAN ARMY. WITH BELGIANS ABRITISH FAKE? | Passenger on Luisilania Says Government Fathered It to Scare Germany. that Italy join in the war on the side of the allies, It is pointed out, in plainly inspired articles, that were Italy immediately to Join in the conflict. such action woula compel | Austria to abandon Germany and sue at once for peace. The resuit of this would be, the papers point out, that the German people would realize at! once the futility of continuing to} fight. The German Government, the | articles say, hag withheld from: the | German people all knowledge of Italy’a atitude and has apparently endeavored to create the impression that Italy is merely awaiting the right moment to range herself on Ger- birt} "s side. iclal reports received to-day say that the Fourteenth and Sixth Aus-| trian .army corps, which have been doing the bulk of the fighting protect- ing the Austrian retreat, were badly cut up in yesterday's fightin Gen. Rouzsky's reports recelyed to- | day show that he took 5,000 additional| The most interesting story brought | prisoners, 85 guns and large quantities | over on the Lusitania, in port at 1 OF SEL ae a Boyt. ie, in purmu-{2c1ck this morning, was that of| ance with the general plan to concen- les Percival, who said thnt the trate the Servian attack on Bosnia | Stories passing current and accepted as truth in this country concerning _THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1914. KAISER’S TROOPS CONTINUE TO FORTIFY LONG BATTLE LIN ' Brothers Slain, Wounded Lancer Calls on British to Fill Up Gaps 3 : SS CORPORAL OBRIEN OF OTH LANCE RS Ouaear Corpl. Ninth taken. OBrien Laticers, Upon his return home, wounded, un appeal to Britons: “I took part in the charge at Mons and my two brothers were killed My hand will be better by Thursday and I'm within a hundred yards of m 's not bette HELP US FILL THE GAPS going back. f ii took part der Capt in the it'll have to be. memorable cha rege of the Grenfell, at Mons, wifere German guns were he made the following public British | COME FORWARD AND | (Oddities i in the War News|! The dean of Paris actor’ stir up patriotism by popular r cross (which he ts} | T One Mile. pite "“Unele ¢$ partly f¢ ir John | and not to move into Slavonia, the entire Servian army has been with-|the movement of a big army of Rus udic ut Giverny, France, of the dent Wilson, use of Sculptor Frederick Maemonnies and the are being u me De Seiligny, found two wounded the got a donkey m8 ame familiar ever which he is now fight! | the Belgian battleground, The suffragettes In London whos I fed the Government they will pa Soute have been sacrificing their pro) and ¢. ocks” are a Mrs, Charlotte Despard, sister | of the British forces In F; | ing wore his hobbles, ANce So One freak of the war In the Fe by a British warship twe member of fs Mounet-Sully, and Mme, Jane Hading, are wil $ citations in Paris ‘ sh »pular of the p utioners ean | motto is y thelr taxes this erty rather than ¢ ard phot rdly supply art, hoist di the wound useful novelty aN passports by Americ: The stripes run from top to bottom of the socks, with the exe rows of stars on a blue fleld Just above the ankle, low shoes must be worn, f says when and for the same a load of tea from a German freighte drawn from Semlin, The Austrians | gi; pul ita Outed Aid tvs : ac RaLne that there will be no danger of a| have reoccupled the town but have ene on Aan 1 to Or nd vy Japanese valet out ot he agus try Russian attack on the German flank| made no effort to cross into Servia. cot er and England were with aan CL Sed, tna ‘ when the Germans move againy:| The advance of the combined Ser-|clever fakes of the English Teaped 1h) Wauly, Be, tipanen es vian-Montonegrin armies on Serajevo| ment." Though Mr. Percival spoke! 1 Warsaw. {s reported as progressing uninter-| with @ marked English accent. ana| (lOW nd bad our Brst dificuity at PETROGRAD, Sept. 18 (United! yuptedly, the Austrian oppositi RON Tene eta eae CORA Coitene Hi Press).—All of the Russian hewspa- erumpling in front of the de admitted he was a subject of King! boarded the boat und urrentes t nen pers to-day follow up yi jmined attacks of the combined| George, he spoke most freely of this) 4 i umer tthe oifee: er: suggestions with emphat armies. bit of strategy perpetrated by his Mend Ge Hie Dresence. Wet home government. He said flashed down the river of us “The be is sian to find) and we hod very aly it eredenee in London Gute Cob Kreat f Saco A ae eee care cred and tried to take the valet from e ‘ els of the clubs and the hotel eee et ee ad to a young arms r. M rr. corridors, you understand--that the | officer who was nea to reseue th 9 Government pla a very lever | Jian, who stood of bein trick on the Germans by setting up| tern to pieces b Finally a bogey of Ru tt frou, the | {Wo ottlcers: intery n his behalf ler bowey of Hussian attack frum the) ang managed to protect hy life 1 had the straight of this thing| the boundury. | We learned the iden wv ol I ane a | tity of thes wo then They were Choose the best—these mitt + let) MBAR Ue Was Ciel Weimer ew of th ices o $ $ f and dm urplitg, prices make it possible “The Government allowed the tip "But at Ronn man oft to go out that the Russians were w n born coming. Then it suspended traffic te the! ice Gegtttem ea 3; —Grant's Scotch ........ . tin— 0 on two of the roads between Badia | | eanie tap OATMEAL 2 lb. tin—each a } burgh and London and ran a great taken away from us and we fe 3 number of darkened trains through ere this he has been shot OLIVE OIL—g. bot. .70 med, bot. 40 small bot. .23 | In'the msi beiween wie nuruierneat Into eson.” southern cities and on to Plymouth > Rising Sun—Very Best French Oil SARDINES........ Boneless—Imported HAMS-—Elm City—Mild Smoke.............6. Ib. BACON. Boneless Brealkfast—Mild Cured—very choice immedi: un and Southampton, ple everywhere be, lan regiments, word carried a Russians were being landed in Bel- | glum he fact that censor would not permit any of the papers to pub. lish reports of the Russians’ trans- portation through the islands. only Increased the credibility of the story I think that, probably, the little f. Influenced German strategy in glum,” James D. Roman of Memphis, who was accompanied by his wife and daughter Janet, told this sto: en _we left Bad Nauheim on | Aug. 19, Mr. P. P, Van Fleet of Cin- einna’ his tl, urged us to try to get Ig. tin —in Pure Olive Oil lb. ADELINA PATTI, HELD AS “PRISONER OF WAR” IN CARLSBAD, FREED. PARIS, rived kept husband, Ba of war ut | fatty ob! de this i | laborolus Lima the € jected to ing. the hotel guard, several we arlsbad in w! a Va terday afte together w pati oy © ph leave he S08, DOF hich they wei ttl are being th her yom nestios 46 InMaGah 1A\aats box Awe was obtained only after Wye kept with every iilock y miles from Mantla Bay, | | | Jus 900, re on the high seas, dd Cross Hospital “No vote, son use ne of the foremost families in Fr: vglish soldiers in the ruins durtug the bombardui dimen into itu sting shells, marched thirty miles beside the donkey to the | unbulance, ‘ontinents Johan Freneh, commander-tn » Was a boy battles and pre Nayoleon was his hero, and through studying his lite and hedgerow of th knew every n figures in this war, RUSSIAN WAR NEWS FALSE, SAYS AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR HERE. busy has ¢ wireless Foreign Office on Message from Mass, out no tax,” ption of thre To get the proper effect rian sum the the James Finn, | she tn London ts of ve demand have been destroyed throu of nits shere re thovsanie of | 26 GERMANS FROM Kuinilies the utterly destitute; they have notle! ynve dost oven the tools with whieh | BRAZILIAN STEAMER. | of the war. dev Nwelv, daiiy: ene i asyat Mia Wally Dread In the | pwenty-six passengers on the Bras 1.0) : energy upon the | ivan steamship, Rio de Janelro, who, | earth flight of the | nee, nt of aided, on sale in London, and are ns going on Ci missions, antry ‘oot of st was the seizure of a British steamer The captive had taken | | vt Em following Vienn “After the battle of Lemberg an oifl clal Russian news agency pr news about usual ti alle antic J victory of 000 and the un It is int th r of cap er shed as bout the Russians, givine the number of prisoners taken 8 30, tured guns ting to compare with this story the official commu nique of the Russian General Staff, dated Sept. 14, a Py 'e the numbe: bout the ha ty quni For Constipation that Gen. me battle gone down to Thecom- Br EX LAX The Delicious Laxative Chocolate Ex-Lax ielieves constipation, “gue ates the stomach and bowels, stimu- letes the liver and promotes digestion, fod $06, a al and old, uggists. 10¢,, 25c., ‘tered their Ap de x a ete WOMAN ENVOY HERE TO APPEAL FOR AID FOR DESTITUTE BELGIANS. BEEP IHETD4 OHHH OOOE ba! ‘MME. VANDERVELDE BRINGS NOTE FROM |: QUEEN ELIZABETH Wite of Belgian Minister of State Here to Appeal to Americans. : “The reports of shocking mutilation aMicted by the German soldiery upon SESSEOSODESEISEREEEESEGSS e ° the people of Belgium whua they en-| towns drunk with suc- cess are facts, and Lean substantiate | them, for L have seen scores of men and children whose hands and feet ‘had been cut off." This was the unequivocal statement Je to-day by Paul Van de Vede, who served as lieutenant in the Bel- sian army and was in the fighting at z dence,” Liege, Haelen, St, Margaret and 3| ‘Tirlemont. He Is a cotton broker of | 3 + anxious, Dallas, Tex, and came back to this! on the White Star liner jeountry + Which came to ber pler this ilies have been homes and are Nor je this all the Germans did fon. It t# de When they sneked and devastatel the| County and help them, The t towns through which they passed,” he } Queen ompany you fo these two At Sempat the Germans tries, which to give help of the townspeople tn} to those in dint and set fire to the houses, burning the occupants alive ” treatment driven out of their) now without ha! ving Wi humanity 6" to try to eked) many their hom one.” © Mine. Vandervelde delivered a lecture on the war in the | saloon and $860 wan subscribed for the distressed Belgians. npletely opposite views of the sentiment in Germany were expressed George Jr. nore! | elvilized wa: the Germans gave inhabitants of Sempst, a town |of 4,000 Houle, ts typteal, Ger- n# took it and utterly devastated | it, Afterward they went on, ang when | they had left 1 wax among those who lentered the again, ‘There tt! that 1 the mutiloted Bel- |"! Aug nd United hom town Is saw was shins non-combatants, with feet and} Germany ¢ hands out off with German sabres, beginning to worry over There litte ehildren with thetr of the war into which enthuatastically,” PARIB, Sept. wonderful,” 4 “The people are, Age the Kaiser, proud 1 confident of success.’ curs » their hands and feet too, The reason for it wan that the Ren darmes of the town had resisted the man advance and fired upon the own soldiers had to evacuate the place, Germans a chanes a by fired up proud army a Mra. | troops after heen compelle [This gave the Miss Oro- ville Wooster, were passengers. The! automobile in which they were tour- ing Kurope was setzed in Strasabure, but they had no trouble in reaching that they } civilians, and they took a terrible re-| Paris and Lor walet George W. MeEnerny of San Fran- Ansihnnwee rember of the American nother of the Munich, He sald Amer- was Mine, Lato ing well cared for there the Belgian Ministe . who in|! edit at hotels when eir cu ® out, n this country tat the th jth in this country sat the hi of. the] ""Gonsresaman A royal Amission which before | Brookline, Mass, who went abroad on sich nan atroettion, the battleship North Carolina as a member of the Money Transfer Com- anaes told of hearing 6,000 Freneh Ht Wilson its enumeration of She has a letter | Me m Queen Hilkabeth to plead for aid ier at Calais aing in the li #8 and penniless Bel- | aorceee jod Save the King.” 8 who sont all in the war, | It was the only English they knew, 1) cnticnawa ro" whe said, “to | however. There was no difeulty tn the transfer of funds to Americans, ovity of the great said the Congressinan, and he belleved acy in behalf of the | that what Americans were left in and women of iy country whose | Europe were now well cared for, land has been ravished, to the 4 Raat in demoe vse hom SRRTUEe Ed j eel FRENCH CRUISER TAKES I witnessed the re | officers of the French cruiser Conde | believed, were on their way to fight | for Germany, were taken off the ra before T lett Ant. | steamship when she was stopped by | wat Sine eu m sent Ro necratary | the warship outalde of Saint Thomas, | o wish me godspeed and good luck, telling ma he approved of my min: | British Weat Indies, on Sept, 10. The sion to appeal to tha) American |story was told wken the Rilo arrived ple. 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