The evening world. Newspaper, September 26, 1914, Page 2

4 oy oe on ae VENING WORLD 8 Reel ALLIES TA KE ST. QUE! QUENTIN, THEN ARE OBLIGED TO VACATE (eee eS PTEMBER 7, RDAY, 8B 197 My all night, and the battle raged with great violence. ‘The Germans made a supreme effort to check the allied along the Oise and to push their line forward so as S uplit the allied forces between Noyon and St. Quentin, ; they have been unsuccessful. >) The new allied armies which moved east from Amiens | ©) gad Douliens are reported to have so strongly strengthened ithe allied left that the capture of St. Quentin is now consid- ‘ved certain. FRENCH CA 9 4 If the can take St. Quentin, and the railway lines » Between it and Noyon, the Germans must abandon their ey en ed positions in the Oise-Aisne region and to the northeast or be entirely cut off and BRITISH REPORT OF ALLIES’ CAMPAIGN. : Allies Were in St. Quentin, aa But Retired to Save Lives A LANDON, Sept. 26 (United Press).—With fury unsurpassed in the " BBlstery St the world, the battle of tho Alsne-Oise entered its thirteenth day With Uttie apparent gain for either side. It was admitted the Germans as- Wed the offensive yesterday near Noyon and had made substantial gains — was also pushing back the French on the heights of the ‘ It te Gociared that the allies, heavily reinforced, had regained most of Jest territory on the left wing, and that by a series of brilliant bayonet q@Barges they had succeeded in entering St. Quentin. That they did not » Beeld this position was due, it was stated, to the desire of the allied com- ))manter to eave the town. The Germans afte heavily intrenched on the hille Gerth of the town and if the allies had tried to hold it they would have / Beem compelled to face a constant rain of shells from the German big guas. Te order to avoid needless sacrifice of life the British withdrew to the West and have taken up strongly intrenched positions from whieh they are “Sew bombarding the Germans. 7 ‘We & reported here that many changes are taking place in the German 4 ~ Part of the troops which formed the army of the Crown Prince have ay thal and sent around to aid Gen. von Kluck, while a part of gg that was engaged under Gen. von Buelow has been transferred fe Crown Prince, and the gaps filled with the landwohr and the re ‘The object of this is to put fresh men at various lines. Asa result Rieck’s army is now very formidable, ay King and Queen Review Kitchener’s New Army ALDERSHOT, England, Sept. 26, via London, 6.40 P, M—King George, who was accompanied by Queen Mary and their daughter, Princess Mary, Regimen! rman reserv spent the day here inspecting a huge section of Field Marshal Earl Kitch- They hed fs Lele south, Tacevas lo ie aimed train, whens ener’s new army. Most of the men were in khaki, but here and there were . were ambushed, Among the. wounded who are being cared for are |°°°" splashes of black, where regiments of men who had not yet received their uniforms were drawn up. ad erase, two captains end two Heutenants, All of the other oMeers |" i ogether 150,000 men passed before Their Majesties, many of them wearing ribbons and medals of the South African and other campaigns, GERMAN REPORT ON THE WAR IN FRANCE. The royal party also made a tour of the German prisoneis’ camp. bain * The King and Queen will devote Sunday to visiting the wounded. | Berlin Says the Allies ' a Fell Back Ten Miles on Oise tao ead fresh troops, aided by the fresh British troops that have just ring line, must soon make their presence felt. Gwitzeriand, Sept. 26 (United Press].—Reports from Altkirch that the French surrounded and annihilated the One Hundred and tt . Mar. cituation issued to-day, the War Office declares that the German | miles to the north of Paris, where the French st! ioe bee taken the oon ree has driven the allies back for a distance |fank Gen. von Kluck's reinforced army. The French official statement i miles along Oise River, { that the allled tro hav ry oy ent says that while the allies have been reinforced they Beer ener eae eee oe ° ae in le to regain any of the captured territory. Violent assaults RAYRRCS: to be in progress, with the advantage remaining on the side On the eastern end of the fighting line the French officially admit me who have inflicted heavy losses on the allies. that their line has been forced back by the Germans across the River ‘The movement of the German forces alohg the Meuse River continues, | Meuse, near St. Mihiel. a point about twenty miles to the south of the the Germans slowly driving the French back on their main columns. bardment of the French fortified position of Verdun, and the @f seven Mouse forts, extending toward Toul, is in pi ens, The In the Lshels arena the Huselans are teal ie attack the are making strenuous efforts to relieve these psltoede al fore they important Austrian fortified city of Cracow in Galicia. he inhabitants Feduced, but they are being held in check by the German armies of of the city are reported to be fleeing and the civil government is sald to ' bave been assumed by the Germans. Zhe general situation in France remains favorable to the German: Russians operating against the fortress of Przemys! have captured ) War Office says, although there has been no decisive result. — two towns to the north and south of the position, and have completely ja armies of the centre and the left are slowly breaking down the |°"t off {ts railway communications. Getense, and important developments are hoped for in this The French Ministry of Marine to-day announced that a landing of the hattle line, force from the gunboat Surprise had hoisted the French flag over Coco ERLIN, via London, Sept. 26 (Associated Press).—The cutting of] Beach in the German colony of Kamarun in Africa, i submarine cables, the censorship, and the exclusion of foreign British forces from the Union of South Africa have occupied Luder- shawepepers from the Empire have resulted in shutting out from Germany |{tzbueht, a town in German Southwest Africa, where the Germans re aay Acti etalk ney bp hig treated after blowing up the railroad. ye pale borden ' ve Se etii mee, been carrying full China has protested against the occupation by the Japanese troops ¢ Rheims Cathedral, while veihsien, a town in Shantung Province outside the zone set apart Jest sixteen days only three places have been specifically mentioned for the J: e milit! "the Government war bulletin. These aro Noyon, Rheims and Chateau M fe Chinese Lidhidcarasll a the Japanese military operations against Y . the German concession of Kiaschow, French fortress of Verdun 29 ot by Oddities in the War News ang Admit 75,000 Have Been Lost in War ~) BERLIN, Sept. 26 (via The Hague)—Tho latest lists of casualties ‘posted by the German W: tice emphasizes anew the great mortality i the German officers. In many instances there are reported regi- which have had s complete change of officers since they entered ‘Their original complement has been either killed, wounded or A millionaire officer of the Royal British Flying Corps has promised to contribute $500,000 to the National Relief Fund if he 4s successful in “bagging” the first Zeppelin captured by the British. In one big business office in Liverpool a volunteer ambulance corps has been formed and classes are held regularly. They are very popula: except among the office boys, who complain that they are being “almost bandaged to death.” ‘The liste made public to-day bring the total up to nearly 76,000 in Rett ‘wounded or missing since the outbreak of the war. But it fa ad- > mitted that thoes totale are in no way up to date, “It ts rigorously forbidden for any woman to cast amorous glances at val —— | niarea: cecmed British and French prisoners,” is the text of a proclamation issued by the ae , |§0,000, NOT 250,000, military governor of Stuttgart, Germany. Os has | — “World Ad. Rents s NUMBER OF PRISONERS Some years ago men went about France selecting factory sites IN THE HANDS OF GERMANS, LONDON, Sept. 26.—The Central News has received the following dis- patch from Rome: nae from Bertin says the Gen- offi and building concrete foundations, but never putting up the factories, The French now allege these foundations are used by the Germans as platforms for their heavy artillery, and that the “factory builders" were eptes. _~ Six Apartments ft, inte Spain ts willing to be the official bottie holder in the war. That ta, i¢ the belligerents will ask her she will undertake to receive and care for all the wounded. ecessary to, adinl already announced ‘© erroneous. aggregate ‘number of Brisoners. In man hands is now red to 60,000, of whom 30 000 arc PIELDIN , re egest eoiworta Bide, AMERICAN WOMEN GIVE August there were printed SIX MOTOR AMBULANCES a" 22,264 FOR USE BY BRITISH, | tne LONDON, Sept. %—Acting on a sug: gestion from the British War Om ittee in charge of the American |thFOUgH England, Women's War Keliet Fund has drencen the iow, fue i present, ping | a nee 4 Medical, iH The Ger- 000 jana. Members of the Rothschild family are fighting in three armies, from E Rus three in pep TOT W Avstrian family with the Austrian army Moving pivlure operators follow tho German Grintes dader the sen! ‘six motor | direction of the Katser, a Bordeaus despatch suys, and make Alms that Seem that the great renting ! gmp, will look well im neutral countries, Among those of “posed dettles” 42 one showing “The Bmperor under the enemy's fire.” You con't see hii iP SERN a ls acme «gf om ‘ (eee es Ae a iat ine laid ze VALRY CROSSING HASTILY BUILT PONTOON |FIGHTONTOEND, |20OHORSESKILLED ©? A battle of extraordinary severity 1s raging at the western end of ts (via The Hague), Sept. 36.—In its official review of the| the Anglo-French and German battle jjpe in the region. of Noyon, sixty] railroad linc. both from Jarosiaw and {fl are striving to out-| Preemysl, toward Cracow. It ls now a@ slight/ strong German force has now as- the British, three of the Frankfort branch in the German, and two of the Walter Lippmann, a New York author, just back from England, says operating company found all the slot machines In railway stations on the south coast out of business, and on opening them discovered them clogged with Russian kopecks, which he takes as proof the Russians passed ae nes NO MEDIATION, IS | IN S-ALARM FIRE; ANSWER OF VILLA) - LESS 1S $10,000 General Tells Peacemakers|John Donohue’s Barn De- re Carranza Violated Treaty | Stroyed at Nos. 412-414 Bast | Made to Heal Former Break, | Seventy-Fifth Street. New York's first five alarm fire in two years, called out all the fire ap- Paratus on the east side bet: Fourteenth and One Hundred and % Bixteenth streets to-day, sent up a youths, Rept. 26—Tho fight be- tween Gen. Francisco Villa and Pro- visional President Venustiano Car- ranga must go on to the end; their can be no mediation of their differ- ences, volume of smoke which showed®for {This was the reply Gen, Villa sent! Miles on all sides, and gave the Sre- from Chihuahua to-day to Carranza’s| men a stiff fight for several hours military chiefs who had urged him; to keep tho blaze from spreading tu to accept a peaceful scttlement. Villa | the tenements which surrounded Jolin charged that Carranza had violated, Donohue's stable at No. 412-414 Bast the “treaty of Torreon,” framed sey-| Seventy-fifth street where the fire eral months ago when a similar break | Started and to which it was confined. between the two leadera was mended,| Tho building was destroyed, how- SON TOON BR: Dae ON DRIOGE OVER Backing up his declaration of hos-| ever, and 200 horses, fourteen ; | tilities, Villa continues to mobilize| coaches and three hearses were oo | nia forces and fighting below Torreon| burned up. | fe expected to begin shortly. ‘Tho message to Villa was drawn up by Generals Eduardo Hay, Ignacio Pesquiera, Rafael Bueina, Lucio Blanco and Juan Medina. It urged peace “in order that the idenis of the revolution may not be broken.” These men met at Mexico City Inat night and offered themselves to Villa in any capacity he might wish, to avoid hostilities. Villa has released Gen. Alvaro Obregon, Carransa’s chief military Jeader, according to official announce- ment. Obregon is enroute to Mexico City. In bidding him farewell, Villa told Obregon they would meet again soon on the battlefield. WASHINGTON, Sept 26.—Three ; battleships, the Rhode Island, Texas and Minnesota, have been ordered ‘> | Vera Cruz by Secretary of the Navy Daniels. The Texas is on her way there now. The Minnesota will sail from Philadelphia and the Rhode Isi- and from the Norfolk navy yard. It Js stated all are to relieve ships now stationed off Vera Crus. FATHER AND SON HURLED TO DEATH FROM AUTO WRECKED INST On Way West From Summer Home in Vermont They Are Killed in Wallingford, Conn, Twenty-one engines, two t seven trucks, six fuel wagons and two fireboats wore called to fight the fire. Crowds flocked to the place from every part of town and 200 policemen, | under Capt. Sullivan of the East Stx- ty-seventh street station, were needed to keep order, Tenements on all aides were emptied of tenants and from the rear fire escapes of houses in Seventy- fourth street tons of water were poured into the stable which, running back 116 feet from Seventy-Sfth street, turned east in an ell for ant other 245 feet. Chief Kenlon estimated the damage at $75,000 for the building and an equal amount for the horses and carriage. Only one man was burt and he ealy slightly. The fire 1s supposed to have started by spontaneous combustion. Two hesi- lers, only recently employed by Mr. Donohue, and known to him only as Andy and Mike, were in the cellar getting hay when they saw tho begin. ning of the fire. They rushed up to the office on the first floor shouting the alarm, but 90 quickly did the fire gain: headway that It practically follewed them up the stairs, In an instant the entire lower floor was a furnace of flame and smoke, and the floors above quickly caught. Mr. Donohue and his men made oua effort to reach the stalls and release some o fthe horses, but, quick as they were, they found thelr way blocked by fire and bad to rush for the street to save their own lives, Joseph Deckerman, a caretaker, was the only other man in the Build- ing. He was on the top floor. Te the roof of the tenement at No, 416 Baat Seventy-fifth street, adjoining, was a drop of six feet and Deckerman jumped. He turned his ankle and for some minutes was unable to move, As the fire came nearer, bow- ever, he got to the scuttle of the tene- ment, and firemen, already racing through this bullding, cleaning eut * the tenants, found him and carried him to the sidewalk. Dr. Quinn teok him to Reception Hospital. NI FALL OF PRZEMYSt /GERMAN AVIATOR IS EXPECTED SOON, | 1S SHOT TO DEATH GERMANS REPULSED, BY BRITISH AIRMAN Greatest Battle in the North Is} Duels in the Air in Belgium Expected in Vicinity of Are of Daily Oc- Cracow. currence. ANTWERP, Sept. 26 (United Presa). ! —Duels in the air in Belgium are now of almost daily occurrence. Yesterday a Belgian aviator attacked a Ger- man who was flying south from Brus- sels and killed him. To-day an Eng- lish observer, in-a biplane, chased a German in a Taube for several miles from thia city, finally managing to down him, wrecking the machine and killing tho officer observer and the pilot. The British aviator rose higher than the German and by virtue of the superior speed of his biplane man- aged to get directly over him and then riddled the German with the light automatic gun mounted on bis machine, ~ ROME, Sept. 26.—French hydro- aeroplanes sent up from the French Meet besieging Cattaro have dropped a@ number of bombs in that city, It is not known what damage was done, LONDON, Sept. 26.—News agency advices from Copenhagen report con- tinuous flights by Zeppeling over the PETROGRAD, Sept. 2 (United Press).—Advices from the Austrian front to-day say that the capture of | Przemysi is believed imminent. All J] non-combatants have been permitted to leave the city and the Russian bombardment continues from all sid Already weaknesses have bee: noted In the eastern forts, where the Ure of the Russian artillery bas been excepticnally deadly. Meanwhile the main Russian army continuing its movement along the known that a desperate resistance will be encountered at Cracow. A sumed the work of defending that important fortification, and a Ger- man. ral bas geplaced the Aus- trian commandant, according to ad- vices reaching this city. It 1s announced that the Russian army of Gen, Rennenkampf has as- sumed the offensive and has repulsed the Germans who tried to invade Russian Poland in the direction of|Kattegat. It is believed they are alk searching for hostile ships. One euwate Zeppelin soaréd over the island of While detalls are lacking, the early |‘Thune, afterwards disappearing in the reports to the General Staff indi-/direction of the Little Beit. cate that the repulse has been seri- — jous to the Germans, who were genes VON BERNSTORFF LAI WALLINGFORD, Conn., Sept. 26.-- F. G. Morse and his son, H. J, Morse, of Chicago, who were returning to thelr home from their summer plage in Newfane, Vt, in an automobile, were killed here to-day by being thrown from the vehicle after it hud wkidded on the street-car tracks and had been upset against a heap of loose sand. The younger man wos! instantly killed. The elder Morse died | in a few minutes, Identification of the bodies was made by the Coroner and medical ex- aminer, who found business cards and letters in the clothing. There were also directions to notify rela- UGHS \buck toward Guinbinnen with joss of muny men and a number off AT STORY THAT GENERAL cannons. Cannone snoral Russian advance on| ORDERED PRISONERS SLAIN German positions ts admittedly wel! For strategic reasons the Getalls, are with MY the censor,| Count von Bernstorff, the German but the announcement is authorized | Ambassador, to-day, in assuring repor' }that the advance, with Berlin as the ers that he was utterly devold of ne objective, is “now in progress.” paused to chuckle over the story from ‘Whether this means that the known |the London Chronicle's Bordeaux cor- LOST, F OUND AND REWARDS, UND. ANG REWARES movements are being carried on With | respondent that the German Gen. Sten-| tives in New York, New Jersey and | tasy—waln thig intention, or whether a great| cor nad ordered his troops to Chicago in caso “of “accident, and | ers “iia Laie ten & Soyder Co,, movement is masked is not revealed, |The significant fact Is admitted that | the entire Russian army, including leven the troops brought through \ Siberia from Manchuria, are now a | position# available for service, | LONDON, Sept. 26 (Associated Press).—The fall of the town of ; Khyrow, telegraphs the Petrograd | correspondent of the Evening News, | completely tsolates the Austrian for- tified position of Przemysl as regards } railroad ‘communteation. Khyrow Is twenty miles south of word was sent to New Jersey and reply received that the bodies would |= be immediately claime: CHICAGO, Sept. 26. ‘he two men killed in an automobile accident at| Wallingford, Conn., to-day, were F. G. Morse, a caterer of this city, and —_—_— his son, H. Julian Morse. ‘They spent the summer at the sum- mer home of the elder Morse at South Newfane, Vt., and planned ¢ rt How to Find £ Hi h as far ns Philadelphia, taking oy Class Ap artn ent train there for Chicago, . —_—— JAPANESE AND BRI to kill all well as to Kill all! wounded, whether armed or unarmed. “How ridiculous! the Count es-' claimed. ‘Surely no one, even though | their sympathies are not with the Ger- | mans, will belleve that impossible re- port. It is laughable.” ‘The Count said Baron von Schoen, an attache of the German Embassy, who was accused of saving & war betwoen | the United Stater and Japan was in| evitable, had returne! tc Wes! more prisoners, bi into thetr hands FiANo 1 fon Co. a y' te Pt Ambi rt id he had | Ereeda, eet otras es neton Eke Aaa spade anata TisH =| ina Hl TINTS Servian’ Sept 26, (United [etient ofita ain?“ = De)” RETACK GERMAN FORTS; | Statement declaring that at only one point have the Austrians suc- ceeded in securing a@ foothold on Servian soll. This is near Krupania, in the mountains, where fighting has been in progress for moro than a week, with the Servians gaining ground, Every attempt to cross the Danube or the Drina has been repulsed, it ts stated, with heavy loss, rding the general the Government says: “The suggestions from Vienna that | AVIATOR KILLS ANOTHER. PEKIN, Sept. 26 (United Press.)— | Advices from the Shantung peninsula |say that while Jupanose aviators from ‘the fleot were reconnoitering over ihe | WASHINGTON, Sept, 26.—Of the | German forts they were attacked by | {$325,000 the American Red Cross has re. | German avintors and one of the Jap- | ceived to date for its war relief fund) anese airmen was killed and bis ma- | lexpenditures and obligations already Chine W! a |Incured total 820,00, It wus announced hax sae ncheeedee te ‘i ratoha eiva riege guns into the morale of the Servian troops has! peg’ Crom that the society will he | opened on the outer o jbecome very bad are utterly without jable to mecomplish litile’wore than ate | man fortifications, |foundation, Likewise is it utterly [ready undertaken ‘uniean'a laras. | . a cle ADED BY TRAIN RED CROSS EXPENDITURES ALMOST EXHAUST FUND SENT IN FOR WAR RELIEF. ' | | | | | situation, land forces | false that cholera has broken out in/amount, of additional ution the Servian army, Our troops are in | Fegetved.’ Kood spirits under continuous vice cont gan toe, Aas shaPedition, to Europe | der | tories. e,combined Montenegrin-|ehase hospital and surgical ont | wy | Servian aries continue their occu-|and supplies, gnd_ $40,000 to ay | Workman Is Killed on Second! yoy york's High Class Apartments Red Crous Societies, ——— j pation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, j driving the enemy before them.” ‘The War Office also announces that, jaithough the Austrian bombardment of Belgrade continues, the fire is for the most part Ineffective, and the Servian artillery 1s constantly re- plying. Avenue Elevated, | Charles Barnes, forty-three years old, & foreman of tronworkers, was almost SINCE THE WAR BEGAN, 95,000 AMERICANS HAVE | ievatcd ‘train. at the. Thirty-fourch RETURNED FROM EUROPE, | «treet station at 7 A. a. to-day. 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