The evening world. Newspaper, October 13, 1914, Page 2

Pus IH ar THREATEN WARSAW: OF WEST POLAND; ‘Russians Chim Be to Be Ready for Action on Ground of Their Choos- . ing—Berlin Admite Retirement From Niemen River. WASHINGTON, Oct, 38.-~(Asepéfated Prees.)—Warsaw, capita! of Poland, is thi forces and may fall at any mo- Sen to an to the American Government from ‘of tts gonsuls, who Goring the ex: fer tastructions as to the care ef foreign Britain has asked the Untted States te take over her consular period of cocupaney. learned today. The English Government also filed a list of cities in the War tesvitery whore tt desires :the United Gtates to take charge in the event of @epman vistories. BERLIN, Oct. 13 (via Amsterdam and London to United Press) —An Official Wer Office eta it to-day declares that the whole of Poland, west of the Vistula River is 1, German posession, the Russians heving been swept back. iy A ts A get a seal es ahi em iacreal thetr tines of communi- cation.] ‘There ie @ rumor currest here to- day, bet it tacks confirmation, that Len Petrograd there is a report of a Rus- miam victory near Raced, midway be- Galicia, bés teen fetaken by the Austrians. 'VEENNA, Oct. 18, via Amsterdam a8@ London, (Associated: Press) ke official announcement given out in Vienna to-day reads ag follows: “Our offensive has reached the San River after sumerous fights, most of Which resulted victoriously for our | treeps. * relief of the wtronghold of: ” Praemysi has been completed. To the * perth and to the south ef this ¢ortress “what remains of the hostile army bes been attacked. Jarosiou ena Leengis {are in our possession." LONDON, Oct 18 (Associated Press).—All eyes to-day are tumpell to the east, where, under conditions ‘of the utmost secrecy, the Teutonte) ‘Ailes and the Russians are “fo engage in what may Breve onp of) SF | ‘the most decisive combats of the war. 3 WANT TO KNOW WHO eHos! BATTLE GROUND, Evidence ie acoumulating t apow that this gigantio congiict will be de- termined in Russian Poland, and the only question disturbing British ex- perts i: as to which side bas chosen the battle ground. _ Beriig admits having withapawa frem the Nieren River and at the time discounts the whole move- t if thet region as being of no ‘texte impgortagece. fe now clear that Russia has joped the narrow point in Ga- weet Praemyél an@ Cracow, + Réesiag foress having virtually o0- i CAVALRY ENGAGEMENT. Dasdy, as follows: ‘Vistula Rive: saw. » plecer be . Ry: 1 of, Gattela with the @x0®D- | on sageg, England and the Continent. ? n \ W rel wee - of these two places. Petrograd | our cavalry crossed the Car-| This is on the word of Adolph F red he found to be halt. | es ims Yin eperation t@ due to étra-} 11), tains Gall, a mechanical expert in the Hdl. | witt 4 pathian Mountains in several places The Germans speak contemptuous!: tagic reasons while Vienna maintains |. 04 4nyaded the Hungarian plains.” | 0n'Idboratories at Mast Orange, whol o6 ii, Aw hae Gall aiden teciate | #' that rufuvenated Austrian armies AMBTERDAM, Oct. 13 (Central | returned from five months abroad to- | ing that the burden of defending Aus- head leved the Przemys} fortress News).—The Russians are retreat- day aboard tbe Scandinavian-Ameri- | trian as weil as ¢ nany Was on the n the invaders out. Tt ts can Line steamship —Hellig-Olay. | Stoulders of the Aulser, estlaged. thas the.more or lase: ing from Galicia to ¢ “adloraiteca Austrian Yorces, stiff. _ertta by German reinforcements, Rave regumeg the offensive, but there ts int ation here to indjcate that Ri n fetirement is anything in a) nafore @f a yout resulting from @ finkging. atever may be the intention of arriies Operating on the ends of great Reassian battle front, it is cl@r at these mavemeats Bave to ipsiggificasce heside the tramen. jous forward advance in the from Vienn: —eo BRITISH WATCH DOGS SHIFT OUTSIDE ENTRANCE @ Cunard liner, pl cruiser Lancaster. contre. GBAMANS ARE ADVANCING INTO N « Broadly sheaktte. is th now the ~-Position of the antagonists awaiting the word to open the engagement: ‘The main German armies in Rus- sian Poland are moving toward the Vistula River on a north and south front extending through Pilotrkow, ninety miles southwest of Warsaw, Kielce and Busk, on the Bug Riv thirty miles east of Lemberg, ‘To the left of this army, between Lods and Kallez, is another German force and ‘son the right of the main German army is an Austrian force. The bulk of the Russian troops are ‘on the east bank of the Vistula, but ® portion of their forces are stil! om the west of the river. The nature toa fot the ntry es it probable that sthe ceatre of the battle line will be between Sandomir and Ivangorod, ‘beth on the Vistula River, and about sixty miles apart. In order to take up these positions te Germans have been compelled to ebanion strong positions along the River Warthe and avall themselves of » the transportation facilities of Rus+ Man railroads, which are incompara- fla poorer then what they have beea to, The Russians are de- | as keen to engage the enemy poumt of their own hseewsf aye Mane port to get coal and provisions. yesterday. During the night she de: eee ARGENTINE CONSUL KILLED BY SHELL IN ANTWERP, @ shrapnel shel The mii —»—__—_ PRINCE OLEG DIES FROM WOUNDS; RUSSIAN _ REPORT LEMBERG RETAKEN interests in Warsaw in the event of its capture by German troops, it was berg. « GQAEAT BATTLE BEGINS WITH A The topography of the country and the lack of transports preclude the powslbility. wARHeecTo |, Oct. 18 (United Prem).—The Petrograd Foreign Of- fice to-day cabled Col. Golejeweski, Miliary Attache of the Russian Em- “On Oot. 11. on the left bank of the @ battle began on the roads leaging to Trangorod and War- “The rest of the situation is un- north aide of the Vistula. pursued by the Austrians d Germans, according to a despatch TO NEW YORK HARBOR, The comverted cruiser Caronia, for- has been re- asa patrol.at the entrance to New York harbor, where ahe hes been for the last threé weeks, by the British It ts assumed that ‘the Caronia has sailed for a Canadian Bhere observers noted the change ip warships this morning. The Caronia lwee in her accustomed place at dusk parted and her place was taken by the Len SAYS DUTCH NEWSPAPER. ‘LONDON, ont. uw (Associates Press). —The correspondent at Amsterdam of the Central News quotes the newspaper Het Volk to the effect that the Argen- tine Consul at Antwerp, M. Lemaine, was killed during the bombardment by struck the roof of the reenrenete and penetrated through the Sollings to the cellar, where the Consul seping. GRAND DUKE’S SON. PBTROGRAD, Oct. 13.--Prince Oleg, @ eon of Grand Duke Constantine, died vester€ay of wounds received in action. fi Pees iy BE TRE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, _ EN GLAND FACES REVOLT OF BOERS, ARCHDUKES SLA 1 WHOSE CRE LED | TOMAR MOTE Prinzip Accused With Others in Gigantic Plot for a Greater Servia. RIKAISER ON CTODIONE! OOO COO OOUG la 21 LONON, Oct. 18.—The Reuter Telo- grea Company has recetved via Am- | ster@am a 4éspatch from Sarajevo, Bosnia, saying that the indictment aguinst Gavrio Prinzip, the assassin @ Archduke Francois Ferdinand and Bs wife, together with twenty-one of bie aesomplioes, has been read in @arajevo. The men are charged with Mgh treavon fn connection with the assassination of the Archduke. Thre other persons have been charged with being cognizant of the plot and of having concealed the weapons with which the outrage was perpetrated. The indictmont deals at length with the Servian society called “Narodna Od@brana,” in Belgradé, which organ- ized the conspiracy; with the meth- ods by which the weapons and bombs were smuggied into Bosnia, and re lates how the conspirators at Sa: fevo recruited their accomplices, dis- tributed their weapons and took thetr Places on tite street to await the com- ing of the Arohducal party. Prinzip, under examination, ad- mitted that with a second bullet he intended to kil! Field Marshal Oskar Potiorek, the Governor of Bosnia, but that he used it to slay the Arch- duchess.. Finally tho indictment deals wi:h the motives of the outrage, and depicts the Srredentist machinations for: a @feater Servia in quarters extending 4s far as the royal court. » CODON DOOONGDOOHAS This interesting picture OCTOBER 18 BA CK ED BY GERMANS THE FIELD WITH HIS TROOPS DOOOOGDHDHHOHDOHGOGIS DEGHOCGHDDD GHDHDHTOSHGHHDODOGHOGQIIGHOS NVIOBIOOHOSHOOOHOOOTOOEGISSOOGOGO GHIGHOGHOGHOWHOOHHTGOOGOOS | regoy not asnctioned instreatleg with the Netheriasde. shows the German Emperor consulting with Gen. Herringer, one of the commanders of the army invading France. Prince Oscar, the Kaiser's fifth son, who has been repeatedly praised for his herofe work at the front, is shown watching the movements of troops through a telescope, Newest German Big Gun Can Shoot 23 Miles Clear Across English Channel miles is mounted Edison Expert Tells of Monster] the cn Big Sisters of the “Black at a nlace where nnel ig twenty miles wide, the hind that gua controls the at that point. chann GERMANS EXPECTS GREAT Berthas.” THINGS OF THE ZEPPELINS. E. “Nobody knows how many Zeppe- lins Germany has," the mechanical expert continued, "The big airships Guns greater than the famous 42-/ are numbered with intent to de- mand each centimetre howitzers used by tho Ger- | The Ger. mans against Liege, Maubeuge and |" Antwerp have been constructed by the | ; Krupp gun works and are ready for | Gelivery to the Kaiser's forces in France and Belgium. With these new monsters, the Germans believe they will'be able to control the English Channel from French coast towns, and the effort being made to capture | *")), Ostend is preliminary to the mount-| Kaiser ing of these tremendous guns on the | ¢ shores of the narrow sea between | the palace jam to go to the front, a rowd cried out, “Who's lad was near enough to tho to’ have put his threat into t but rowd Through friends in the Krupp works and others interested in the mochani- cal features of Germany's offense, Gall gained what he claims Is reliable | information about the manufacture | of these bigger sisters of the “Black Bertbas.” ‘ “The 42-centimetre Howitzer now in use by the German army is, ad- mittedly, the gréat surprise of this) war,” aid Gall, “It not only sur- prised the French and English, but the German arury officers themselves, who were not aware of its existence. The men who helped make and prove the big gun at the Krupp works have @ll been drafted into the regular army and attached to these gun bat teries, 80 that nobody but those familiar with the big brute in every detail has anything to do with its firing in sicge operations, BOER REBELLION IN SOUTH AFRICA LED BY COL. MARITZ (Continued from First Page), Africa has, crot propa peri deavored to seduce cit Union and officers the defens through anda, a widespread their allegiance, and to rible affair, No fort, however modern | {a construction, can stand up against it, But I learned from friends in the Krupp Company, whom I had met & business way, that the Krupps have now turned out and have ready | for delivery to the army a 60.2-cengi- | metre gun, which will outshoot the 42-centimetre and has a rango of thirty-Qve kilometres, or a littie more than twenty-three 1 This gun, 1 was told, has been proved and found to be accurate and bl as also told that the Kru ngin are now working on @ 05-centim howitzer and be that it w stand up under the tremendous char hecessary to send its projectile out “The present type of 4Z centini gun has been mounted on several the German Dreadnoughts, aceordi to my information, If this | these boats will outclass anything the British navy for shooting powers, As soon as the Germans have posses sion of Ostend and Calais it is their jntention to maunt the ney centimetre thus close rdus Marit, number of the fore¢ fuliy mand has th ph the Union and ts, ty | conjunction with forces of the enemy, W 1 and tls is grave reason to vernny sfrica has throw, # and agents com ul corrupted alse Union under th herous pretext 0 establishment of a re: Africay and the Government ol Jors it necessary to asures to protect an Union an iding citizen: ind treacher hin-and withou thi man § its numer munica ther false us w tre and loyal la st those Insidion ous attacks, from wit type 50.2 | jaw. @long the shore and ci the proclamation he channel to England, tinuing, istently en- | ens of the and members of | forces of the Unton from} cause re- together with a \e mimand of Licu ficers and @ portion | 1 iment and | thern portion of the | ent of Ger- and to that end to declare martial OFFICIAL FRENCH REPORT Left Wing on the Offensive; Advances Elsewhere, Says Paris . PARIS, Oct. 13.—[Associated Press.J—Following {s the text of the offi- cial announcement given out in Paris this afternoon: Estaires and La Bassee. “The town of Lille, held by a territorial detachment, has been attacked and occupied by a German army corps. (The official German report issued yesterday declared that the German cavalry on Saturday “completely routed a French cavalry division west of Lille, and near Hagebrouck had inflicted severe loases on another cavalry division.”) “Between Arras and Albert we have made notable progress. Bac, and w have advanced toward Souvain, to the west of the Argonne and north of Malacourt. “Between the Argonne and the Meuse, on the right bank of the Meuse, our troops, who hold the heights of the Meuse to the east of Verdun, have advanced. “To the south of the road from Verdun to Metz, in the region of Apre- | mont, we have gainod a little territory on our right and repulsed a German j attack on our left. “On our right wing—Vosges and Alsace—there has been no change. “To sum up, yesterday was marked by perceptible progress on the | part of our forces at various points on the field of battle. “In Galicia the Austrian corps defeated in Galicia are endeavoring to reform at a point four kilometres west of Przemysl.” 20,000 Germans Were Wounded THE HAGUE, (Via LONDON), Oct. 13.—According to a special des- patch to the Cologne Gazette, from Zurich, Switzerland, a large number {of civilians who arrived in Zurich from Belfort reported that an artillery duel was progressing in the direction of Belfort when they departed. A special despatch to the Avondpost says 1,500 German wounded bave |two weeks 20,000 wounded have been transported. thought here, were from Antwerp. Most of these it is Buxton, Governor-General of the Inion, and countersigned by Gen, uts, Minister of Defeni ne Official Press Bureau to-day issued the text of a telegram received by the Secretary of the Colonies from | Lord Buxton as follows: the resignation of Gen, and that he held eral commanding the German troo; He had a force of Germans un SAYS NO FORT CAN STAND ITs} ion and civil war within the nmandant-General of|had sent them as prisoners to Ger- AWFUL BATTERING. Union; and the ‘orce there have been} man Southwest Africa. . \. “\Whoreas, these efforts have so tar | indications that something was wrong| “Major Bouwer saw an agreement "This 42-contimetre weapon is a ter- ted it Lieut.-Col, Solomon | W!th the forces in the Northwest Cape | between Col. Marita and the Governor v province, which were placed under ‘ol, 8. G. Marita. : nged to send! as a republie, | Col, Conrad rits to take over the | cs command from Lieut.-Col, Marits, On the 8th inst, Col, Brits sent a measage to Col. Maritz to come in and report to him. To this message | Col. Maritz replied in 4 most ingolont manner that he was not going to re- port to anybody. All he wanted was »|his discharge, and Col, Brits must come himself and take over his com on the invitation of Col. Marita. a “Major Bouwer was shown numer. dating back to the beginnin, tember, Col. Marits boastes of Sep- that and money from the Germans that he would overrun the whole of South Africa. “In view of this state of affairs ihe Government is taking the most vi, ous ste) ‘4 Brits then Major Pon )| Rouwer to take over the command. On bis arrival at Col. Mart f|Major Bouwer was taken with his companions, but. p he was subsequently released and f sent back with an ultimatum from ) Col. Marits to the Union Government 1| to the effect that unless the Govern- djmen guaranteed to him before 10 s|o'clock Sunday morning, the 11th of October, that they should allow Gens. lertzog, Do Wet, Beyers, Kemp and to meet him where he was in that he might receive instruc- from them, he would forthwith an ers C3 Col, Bri forces ne her to invade HP ry all rebels and traitor olIEo. SMITH.—On Oct. 11, 101 {llnens, at her residen: New York City, MARY Mary B. Holmes, “On our left wing our forces have resumed the offensive in the regions | toward the end of 1911 Engtewd intendéd vicladag the eutvality of ‘Mod of Hazebrouck and of Bethune against the detachments of the enemy, |iang, composed in large part of cavalry coming from the front along Bailieul, “On the centre also we have made progress in the region of Berry-au-|two regiments to eppree o matiay & Sibertan reservists in Bessarabia. In the Short Siege of Antwerp),., passed through Liege for Aixla-Chapelle, to which place within the last some guns belonging to the Germans the rank of Gen- ler him in’ addition to his own rebel command, He had arrested all those of his officers and men who were unwilling to join the Germans and of German Southwest Africa guaran- teeing the Independence of the Union| ceding Walfish Bay and portions of the Union to| Germans-would only invade the Union | ous telegrams and hollo messages! had ample guns, rifles, ammunition | 4 to inflict condign punishment on! of Frank M, Smith and daughter of “ne BRITISH CONSUL TOE SEN RSE (Continued From First Page.) repetitions of the German bomb dropping over Paris outeg ithe past two days. , rey The offensive movement against the German ght wing under Geas. von Klick afd von eee un, accerdi |to today’s 3 o'clock official com: ue. It Wan wt | that the French in their in, the region of | Hazebrouck and une. The Gui st{M! oceupy Lille, In the centre, the statement says, the French troops have advanced cc bly -im-the of Berru-au-Bac, in the Argonne ig thie Meu ward movement alogk the south road from Verdun td’ Mctz has resaited in the Germats bein; at On the extrems an uatiop is described a as being unchan BORDBAUX, Fe fAssodjated Press}.—it fas an- nounced officially toeday that it has been decided to transfer the Belgian Government-te-France in-order that it may have full pert a, action. i ; - Stating tae Masts, “uhte Ne M oftidigin, tate lete thi end this m French Government has propared temporary offices fot Gerinahiy' Notifies Waited | She Will Respat Ne sani, (via The Hague and London), Oct. 13.—The Government of the Netherlands bag again- offichally wotigeg. by. the German Govern: ment that @o vthte Oe the tRer G tb Watieway whirls leads to Antwerp, will be regal by pee es heretofere. ‘There will be no question @f forcing the Scheldt or using {t tor per. The notification to this effect was oe ue morning. British Pact With Relgium . Now Proved, Says Berlin Press BERLIN, Oot. 13 hal wire! BT. ‘by the German Foreign Offite jane Bruveel w the existence of a secret ple between Epgland gud Belgium tre natled by the Citas pat as frretutalte prot oF the Vieletion of Belgian neutrality by Grest Britatn. » ‘The Government also announced to-day thet the papers state ghat According to e War Office statement, the Britteti AisBeseader at Cea- stantinople has ordered the ladies of the-embesey to leave to-day. The statement aleo declares that despatches from Sofia confirm report that the Russign fleet fe eailing sodthwarw’ acres the Biol It is stated that the Turkish Government flatly deplined a demand trom the entente powers to dismise German naval asstetamg in the Turkish navy. The Berlin Foreign Office bee received word thet Russi kas sent GermansinGhent, London Hears - That Gen. Von Kluck Is in Retreat LONDON, Oct, 13—Assoctated Presa}—A despatch to the ‘limes from Ostend says the Germans occupied Ghent at T o’clock Meaday mere fng and that retugees from that elty are coming inte Ostend, (Ghent is a city of 170,000 inhabitants in Belgium, the capital of Hast Flanders, situated at the confluence of the Lys and the Seheldt. It s thirty-one miles nortliwest of Brussels and the samte Gistance west and slightly south of Antwerp, with which it is com nected by rail. It {s tbirty-six miles southeast of Ostend, » mala ” rafiroad also connecting these ¢wo cities.) ‘The correspondent adds that a German eviator drepped two bemks en Ostend Monday, Neither of the missiles exploded. It is reported from Amsterdam that the Germans are bombarding ges, which is only twenty-three miles from Ostend. Another repers fs that Ublans who arrived at Selsaete, near the Belgian-Holland herder, notified the people that 6,000 troops were to be quartered there, ‘A Times correspondent in the north of France reports strong German columns of all arms passing through Bailleul (Department of the Mord, near the Belgian frontier), in the girection of Ypres, Belgium, thirty miles southwest of ees. “around the latter town the Germans have concentrated in very large numbers. German cavalry patrols have been seen in many places wHRtS twenty miles of Dunkirk, on the Streit of Dover, forty miles northwest Lille. These detachments doubtless ere part of a screen thrown out test the strength of the allies and mask the German main body.” The correspondent adds that there is no doubt that this retreating to the east and northeast, but in view of the news {t {8 possible that the troops moving north are to assist in Ostend. main from the attack | |