The evening world. Newspaper, October 20, 1914, Page 2

THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, OOTOBER “20, 1914. } BELGIANS HOLD LINE AGAINST VON KLUCK’S ALL-NIGHT ATTA K at various points on the front.” PARIS, Oct. 20 [United Press).—The considers Dunkirk safe, Heavy reinforcements have been sent to the fortifications there and also to the support of the Belgians on the line of the Yser River. The Germans have renewed their attempts against the Meuse line of forts, only to be in turn badly defeated and driven back at a number of points. The admission that this | has happened is considered here to indicate that the pro-| posed invasion of Alsace-Lorraine with Metz as the objective | is fy puining actual form. It is known that the German attempts to bring up their heavy guns to batter down the Verdun-Toul line of forts has felled. The Germans have also been forced to weaken their left to cope with the situation in northern France. It is reported that Pen. Pau has again beon sent to the|' east to assume command. The one-armed veteran had been promised that the task of clearing Alsace-Lorraine of the enemy would be entrusted to him. Reports received to-day tell of heavy fighting through last night in the vicinity of Dixmude and Roulers. Assaults in force were delivered by the Germans but all failed, according to reports at military headquarters. ‘Von Kluck’s Army in Peril, Ostend Retaken, London Reports LONDON, Oct. 20.—A Daily Express correspondent tele- graphing from France says: “Gen. von Kluck’s attempts to break the enveloping movement of Gen. Joffre have failed. His position is now one of the greatest danger. Part of von Kluck’s army is face ing roughly east and west, while another part is facing north and south. His lines of communication through Belgium _.age partly cut, and he must either surrender or retreat on the " Mae prepared by the Belgians.” A Morning Post’s special correspondent in ‘North France” says he is informed on excellent authority that the allies have retaken Ostend. “Burning houses indicate the line of fighting in north. west Belgium,” telegraphs the Flushing correspondent of the Evening News under date of Monday. “On Sunday seventeen trains of forty cars each took German wounded back to Bruges. The Pee ae « of the Germans have been increased with in brought at night by train from Bruges, wate € patho a. aoe but few Germans left.” [According to this despatch there was a total of 680 cars filled with wounded. Estimating fifty to the car, the total wounded would be 84,000.) | Liner Potsdam Crippled By a Mine, Report by Cable HARWICH (via London), Oct. 20 (Associated Press).—It is reported that the Holand-America Line steamer Potsdam struck a mine in the North Bea last night and was crippled by the resulting explosion. At the office of the Holland-America Line in New York it was said to- day that the Potedam arrived at Rotterdam on Oct 16 and was schedulei) té sail for New York to-morrow. No report of a mishap to any of the ves- sels of that line has been received «ince the Noordam was reported blown up by a mine, The Noordam, it was said, bad arrived in Rotterdam and, while injured, did not give evidence of having collided with a mine. ‘The Potsdam has had an eventful career since the opening of the war. ‘Be came tnto'New York Aug. 12 from Rotterdam after having been hold | | GERMANS CAMPED ed BALL ROOM RUSSIANS-REPULSE lio GERMAN ATENPS TO GROSS VISTULA Kaiser’s Invading Forces Suf- fer Heavy Losses Vainly, Petrograd Reports, PETROGRAD, Oct. 20.—Official statements say the Germans are con- tinulng their efforts to cross the Vis- tula River at several points despite very heavy losses. At no point, says the statemont, have they succeeded. The Russians are sald to be ad- | vancing steadily, althorgh slowly, on the Warsaw-Ivangorod front, driving ap off Fire Island by a British craiser. Three days later she sailed for Europe with German reservists on board, but was picked up at sea by British ship and taken into Falmouth, where the reservists were made pris- onere of war. Later the Potedam was released and came back to New York. @he sailed again for the other side and was again taken by’ British warehip into Falmouth. She was released a second time and sailed from .Bagiend for Rotterdam, at which port she was reported Oct. 16. dand and France is arousing wide- spread sympathy. A conservative cstimate is that u Latte} Belgians, out of a population 0, have been expatriated. ford “Gladstone, ‘s ‘committee pays that 70,000 arrived in London during the last week, and the Women's Relief GPrmittes, which sent @ ship to Hol- eek, reports that in cigh' Lies moles the refugees number nearly 500,000, In other words, they are more numerous than the native Doymlations, Folkestone Committee alone has “ihe names of 16,000 refugees on {ts lists, some among them having lttle money and only a few -baving winter clothing. Folkestone alrt@ay has established a maternity home and two hospitals, which are weil filled. There are many gentlefolk among Docks at London Ready these fugitive Belgians, who are not for Shipment. used to labor and who accept charity ‘ reluctantly. The London committee has twenty- HURRYING FOOD ~TOTHE STARVIN IN BELGIAN CITE First isi dal: Is on the seven sub-committees in different LONDON, Oct. 30 (Associated) cities in England, Scotiand and Press)—The firet consignment of] Wales, and these organizations are food supplies for the relief of the people of Brussels ts on the London docks ready for shipment to Rotter- dam. ‘W. H. Page, the American Ambas- sador, has consigned this food direct to Brand Whitlock, American Mints- ter in the Belgian capital, Each box and bag is distinctly marked with its Purpose and destination, in accord. ance with the request of the German Government, made at the time it granted permiesion to send the sup- plies to Brussels. The American and the Spanish Mintsters at Brussels are the patrons of the plan to revictual that city as possible. Alexandria Palace ing used as the central point for the reception work, Its skating rink, achoolhouses and unoccupied office | buildings all are being utilized. Lady McDowell and Lady Emmott head committees for the collecting of warm clothing, which work is done by boy scouts. Belgian wounded are scattered in British hospitals. Thoir whereabouts have been reg! ed and this infor- mation is available at the Grand Ho: tel in London, The penniless refugees here are suf- fering less than thore in Holland and elsewhere who are without money. AEROPLANE BRINGS placing refugees in homes as rapidly | x be- | ui the Germans before them. According to the Army Gasette some 18,000 German dead, left on the field by the retreating Germans, were bur- led by the Russians. ‘The War Office states that the Ger- man right wing, which is extended Into Galicia, has been making de- termined attacks in co-operation with the Austrians, but it is asserted that at no ;oint have the enemy succeeded in gaining any distinct advantage. The Austrians have attempted to cross the San River, only to be re- pulsed with heavy losses, while fifteen Austrian officers and one thousand soldiers have been taken prisoners. Particularly desperate resistance has been offered to the Russian ad- vance near Verjbolovo, Oletska and Blala, where large forces of Russian reserves have been concentrated from the east. Obstinate fighting continues along the front in the north. Demonstrative movements have been made by the Germans at Mlava in an attempt to form a link between the last German fronts forming the general lines along Verjbolovo, Biala and Thorn-Cracow, Oct, 20.—A despateh trom rvla, to the Havas Agency n the region of the Save, near Mitrovitza, the enemy, after a brisk artillery fire, attompied unsuccess- {tully to capture the Servian position at Prekiet, “Prom the heights of Dejamia the Austrians bombarded Topzider and | the banks of the Save and the Dan- ube, and also sought to cannonade ithe vicinity of S&emiin, but were forced tu retire before the Servian fir PARIS, Oct. day says: | River there 16 no change In the situs tion which probably will be extended to the sending of supplies to other Bol- cities: whe! @ food is lacking, t Solvay of Bi the chairman of this food committee, which is now Shins cn (3 national aco! because o! e great nec ol Taslines, Louvain, Liege and other Ragan cities. ar million francs ($800,000) w: PRIEST TO SOLDIER BERLIN, via Rome, Oct. 1 (United Press).—The holy brought by m @ dying German officer, was one of the by mail sacrament, gubscribed in one day in Brussels, but|of the Aisne. Mortully wounded, the| NEW YORK CITY. @utaide help is necessary to prevent| young officer, Livut. Carl Gaffler, 7 . Warvation the Peo-| crawled to the feet of his colonel nnd| OTTAWA, Ont, Oct, 20.—Frederick Prhispgred, "A priest, a priest before Stoddurt, purchasing agent of the Rritish War Office, will start for Beigian cities t was to be found New York ax soon as ho ascertains lonel ordered to isolated towns. Such organization and ta to “paledy a er olan ing. a a ring the Roy ol in re e last rit the © Lieu. Gaiter before he died. jer before DYING ON THE FIELD.! of an weroplane to an nearest town for In three hours the taube had her ad- jureh “The efforts of the Austrians to cross the River San have been re- pulsed, The battle south of Przemyr fe continulne under conditions favor able to the Russians” oe BRITISH WILL BUY WAR SUPPLIES IN incidents of the fiercely fought battle what army supplies Canada. ini to furnish, it Was learned hi night, to place orders in the olix for army gloves, sock Clothen, unitormecioth and practically cvery thing an army in the field ro: qui aN CHATEAU NEARLAERSC! 20.—The official an- nouncement from the War Office to- st Prussta and on the Vistula A Ss in the War News Mice aa toa agriculture expert, advises Germans to use acorns and to offset the shortage of flour. Acorns ground with coffee ail a nye hed, saya the professor. French eoldiers at Moulins made a sham gun out of a tree trunk which fooled a German battery into a fierce cannonade, at the end of which the gun was kindling wood. A sign-post of Guildford reads: “Tipperary road. Late Berlin road.” The shetkhs of the desert have presented Lord Kitchener with 1,500 ‘Arab horses of the purest breed for the use of the British army. Petrograd: A Ru in cavalry patrol captured an Austrian picket in other's arms. They were brothers of Polish extraction. Although Wagner is taboo in London and Paris, Germany has decided to continue Shakespeare's plays because the Bard of Avon “belongs to the whole world.” Under a new rule British warship crews are provided with “swimming collars” which must be carried on their persons when they are awake and kept inflated near at hand when asleep. This is because other warships are prohibited from going to the aid of a ship hit by the enemy. White porses lucky? Lucky for the white horse! Six French officers are here to buy 20,000 horses for the army, but they don't want any white or gray ones because they are too conspicuous, The Kaiser asked @ private soldier in the trenches what he thought of the enemy. “I'm too busy fighting,” replied the soldier. “It is impossible to think.” A British officer writes tho London Post that weird headdrenses are scen | on the troops because soldiers #0 easily lose their caps, He saw soldiers wearing soft felt, straw hats, an oper hat and Mexican hats. A Medical Corps orderly wore a woman's bodice and he heard a lot of men were wearing women's underclothing because their own had worn out. A British girl, instead of leaving Berlin, wanted to marry a German officer, but the Embassy told her she could not wed an enemy, #0 Cupid took the count and she went back to London. WAR SUMMARY It was officially announced in Berlin to-day that the British new sub- marine E3 was sunk on Sunday by German warships in the North Sea, That the allies are frustrating the attempt of the reinforced extreme right wing of the German army to skirt the English Channel ports with the supposed object of finding a new route to Paris is indicated by the French official statement given out this afternoon, which asserts that the Belgian army !s maintaining its position on the River Yser. Further actions are being fought between the allies and the Germans in the region of Ypres, Belgium. From Ypres the allied left wing extends to the English Channel, where it is being supported by British naval forces Along the remainder of the 360-mile battle front stretching from the North Sea to Switzerland, where the defenders and the invaders have been deeply intrenched for thirty-seven days, the only activity noted is that in the region of the Meuse River, where heavy fighting goes on Ince principally in the vicinity of the Camp des Romains. santly, French batteries at St, Mihiel, south of Verdun, are reported to hav. destroyed an entire battery of German artillery which had been particularly active in sweeping the French positions. There Is a dearth of news from German sources concerning the opera- tions of Emperor William's forces either in France or in Russia. 1 A huge conflict Is in progress along the Vistula River in Russian Po- liand. Despatches from Petrograd declare that after tierce fighting to the west of Warsaw the Germans have been driven back toward their main | positions on a line from Sklernewice, near Lodz, to Sandomir, on the Gali- clan border, the River San have been repulsed German islands in the archipelagos of Marshall, |clude the American {sland of Guam. y " |connects China with the Malay Archipelago 4 s @VACRRWeoD Galicia, When the Russian and Austrian captains met they fell into each! | jundreda of both French and German | Russian official reports say that the efforts of the Austrians to cross | AN UND ERQNOOR FRENCH HEROINE. RAN A CITY WHEN * OFFICIALS FLED Mme. Macherez Made Terms With Germans and “Bossed” Everything in Soissons, By William Philip Simms. PARIS, Oct, 3, by mail to New York | (United Presa).—In Soissons, while shells from opposing French and Ger- ; man batteries criss-crossed over the roof tops, whistling singularly like the air brakes of a train, I got an inter- | view with Mme. Jeanne Watteau Ma- cherez, the heroine of the war, who ts President of the Dames Francaises, an organization something like our own Colonial Dames. When all the civil authorities left the stricken place she took charge of the business, ran | the hospitals, superintended sanitation, street cleaning, and in fact, every- thing. The Germans were making a deter- | mined attack on the town as we talked, I timed th! even sheils jin one minute. Mme. Macherez stood in the middle of the atreet, and al- though her words were sometimes lost in the noise of exploding shells she went right on. “If the Germans get back into the | city this time,” I asked, “are you going to stay?” “I shall be al! the more seeded if they come back,” Mme. Macheres re- plied. “When they came the first time, how how did they behave?” “They wanted an indemnity from us, but I induced the commander to accompany me about the city to prove to him that he was asking too much. I convinced him shat v2 could give no more than we had.” ‘This was Mme. Macheres’s modest way of putting it, but I had learned how, by infinite tact, she had resisted the demand for tons of foodstuffs, tobacco and great quantities of wines, and, finally, had secured better terms. She had bargained like a veteran, and when at inst the Germans were driven back they hold her in profound , | respect ‘There was no Red Cross flag flying over the hospital, which contained | wounded, I polnted out. | “We don’t use the Red Cross flax any more,” she replied, “We find tt seems to draw the enemy's fire. Mme. Macheres, a striking figure is rather taller than the avcvage Frenchwoman and her hair is tv. ..tn» gray, Her eyes are like blue steel, bit’ | her face is soft and sweet and moth ‘erly as a Madonna's. Except for he eyes and @ certain squareness about /the chin one would be Inclined t: wonder where her mastery of mei comes trom, In all, I talked with the wor “boss” of issons some fifteen min utes. They tell mo this Was the In the Pactfic Ocean Japan has occupied “for military purposes” the | jongest time she hud stood In one Marianne and Caroline, ‘These groups He from 1,000 to 1,700 miles east of the Philippines and in-| begun. spot since the shelling of Solssons At that, “she was constantly The occupation of Yap, one of the! giving orders and directions, stopping Caroline Islands, gives Japan contro! of the German cable station which | strangers and vtherwise carrying on her duties just av though the street ‘q@ene her touch, om! sat ae CAMP OF GERMAN ARMY IN A BALLROOM IN BELGIAN TOWN ENTRENCHED FOES. (JAPANESE DESTROY SEE EACH OTHER | TORPEDO BOAT $90 ONLY IN CHARGES| THAT SANK CRUISER How Armies at St. Mihiel Con- duct Their Fighting Day and Night. LINES ALMOST TOUCH. German Soldiers in One Sec- tion Organize Singing So- ciety Amid Guns’ Roar. By Karl H. von Wiegand. | ST. MIHIWL, France, via Mets, Berlin, The Hague a04 London, Oct. 2% (United Prees, Pacsed by British Censor) —Fighting day and night) from deep trenches whose wonder- fully effect: entanglements of barbed wire, steel sharp pointed rode and stakes are so close they almost the thousands of men com- prising the German left and the French opposing wing seldom see each other. Probably never before has there been staged a battle eo theatrically ect as te the present. The Hine of battle runs wave shaped for miles through dense forests, over or around high bills and across deep val- leys. Tho French stubbornly contest every attempt of the Germans to ad- vanes. Trenches are extended a foot at a time, The thousands on each ‘side dig themselves in like moles. Even the gune are hidden. In the open the trenches are so constructed as to be invisible to an aviator un- less he files very low. When he does fly low he seldom returna to report. The hills and valleya constantly reverberate with the booming of the hidden cannon. Many of the shells Victim Caught Aground Sixty Miles From Kiaochow Bay. TORIO, Oct. 20.—It was announced officially in Tokio to-day that the German torpedo-boat 5-90, which es- caped from Tsingtau under cover of darkness, has been found aground and destroyed by the Japanese at * point sixty miles from Kiaochow Bay. The Navy Department has an- Rounced the occupation for military purposes of strategically important islands in the Marianne (cr Ladrone), Marshall, East Caroline and Weet Caroline Grohipalagoss, PEKING, Oct. 2 nA despatch from Taingtau, the’German fortified position in Kiaochow, says the Jap- nese cruiser Takachiho was sunk off Kiaochow harbor the night of Oct. 17 by the Cerman torpedo boat 8-90 and not by a floating mine, a» reported from Tokio. —s— = ARRANGEMENTS MADE FOR THE EXCHANGE OF INTERNED CIVILIANS. PARIB, Oct. 20 (Associated Press). —After long continued negotiations through tho intermediary of the American Legation at Berne, Switz: erland, exchanges are about to be made among the belligerent countries of interned civilians. It has been decided that all women and children, and males under reven- teen years of age, will be exchanged between France and Austria. Bo far as ix known here the ar rangements with Germany have no*. been fully completed, but it ta believed that several trainloads of Gor civilians in France will be allowed to run_to the German frontier, Cer- pol Lape mon over seventeen @ and military prisoners are wasted because the target Is, of necessity, a guess. Yet many fall true. Tho troops have no targets at which to alm from the trenches and they leave the fighting to the big guns. It is when attempted sorties and charges are made that the in- fantry get into action. Most of these asaaults are made at night. The Germans then ocoupied St. Mintel and are holding it and the territory adjoining, although they are still subjected to a heavy artillery fire. The reports that the Germans were making an assault in force on Toul and Nancy are erroneous. For the present their chief objective js the smaller line of forts along the Meusc line from Tou! to Verdun, At (name eliminated by censor) I met for the first time the Red Cross dogs. Hundreds of German and French soldie: owe their lives to these animals, They search the woods for the wounded who are un- able to reach safety themasecives. When the dogs find these men they give the alarm and the searching Parties of the Red Cross rescue tne soldiers. 1 was able to spend an entire day in the German trenches, which have been constructed to prevent the French armies with headquarters at Toul and Nancy attempting @ flank- ing attack. In one the soldiers had organized a singing society, A thick fog hid the ench trenches, 800 yards away. Occasionally the thunder of the guns would punctuate the choruses. The singing was remarkable, as many of the soldiers had trained voices, They sang “It's the Day of the Lord” and “My Vaterland; Be- loved Vaterland,” chiefly. jerscitnle atn MOHAMMEDANS REBEL IN BRITISH SOMALILAND, GERMAN AGENCY REPORTS. 20 (Centhen jane in BA COPENHAGEN, Oct News).—The Mohamm ish Somaliland, East captured Berb: the Gulf of {2° Babeet-Manden,. given out by the Wolff Bi van ae be returned. —_>—_—_ 9,000 BELGIANS BACK AT ANTWERP AGAIN FROM HOLLAND TOWN. LONDON, Oct. 20.—Railway com- munication between Antwerp and Brus- eels and from Bergen-Op-Zoom to Ant- werp has been restored, says an Am- Do sey aoeeee to Reuters Telegram Nine "thousand ref returned from Roosendaal to Antwerp yesterday. NO HEADACHE OR NEURALGIA PAIN Get a 10 cent package of Dr. James’ Headache Powders and don’t suffer. 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