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r Associated Press Exclusive Wire SIXTV-TIHKP YEAR. ENGLAND, GO ON ENGLAND NOT TO QUIT TILL FOE'SDEFEAT United States Notified War is to be Carried to Decision. ALLIES MAKING GAINS Germans Said by London to Have Been Driven Back All Along the Line. BOUX T0F EARLY" T.S AFTERNOON EMPHASIZES THE British force backed stubbornly to OECISIVE CHARACTER OF THE i wards the river Oise, constantly show BATTLE BEING FOUGHT EAST OFjing its teeth, but realizing it must at PARIS ALONG A LINE OF 100 j tain the river or perish. Gen. French's MILES OR MORE. I frank confession has fallen like a DETAILS OF EXPERIENCES OF j THE BRITISH ARMY DURING THE FIRST WEEK OF FIGHTING IN FRANCE WERE MADE PUBLIC IN FULL TODAY. AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT ISSUED IN LONDON TELLING THAT THE GERMANS WERE DRIVEN BACK ALONG THE LINE APPARENTLY REFERS TO FIGHTING OF YESTERDAY. London, Sept. in. Premier Asquith today asked parliament to add another SOO.OOO teen of all ranks to the regu lar way. This will bring the total of all ranks to L400.0u' an 'unprecedented figure for Great Britain. Washington. D. C Spt. 10. Grat Britain has determined not to make peace until she has decisively defeated Gensany. This sentiment was con voyed to President Wilson from Am b&sador Pace. London, Sept. 10. Aa official state ment 6ayg; "The battle continued yesterday. The enemy was driven back all along th line. Sir John Preach reports cur first corrs has bur led 2W) German dead and taken 12 MarlTTi guns." Tie text of Field Marshal French's report covering British operations aiaca his fortes lani?-i in France was cade public toijay. It was published ia the London Gazette, the official or- faa, and indicates t'ae government is napondirg to the public demand for filer iLformation. Fighting Is Fierce. Commander French's telegram sbowg fighting of the fiercest charac ter U in progress and confirms unoffi- information from otner sources tiat the counter attack of the allies a dftiivered wi'h such speed that the Invaders had no chance to recover from tie effects of the- ru.-h from the north. London. St. 10 Exultant mes a?e from Petrojrrad and admissions f diaaattrrB from Vi'ina indicate that long series of military misfortunes Marking tie L!tory of the dual inon fcay are aro':t to be capped w ith an paralleled dt-t ar-Ie, which may not ecly open the road to Berlin, but brin? Acstria to sue for peace. Armies in et teem as if pausing to watch fateI drurna in Galicia, t ie out 03e of whi-h rr.ay have a tremendous ?ct on the pl-jr.s of the Invader in lie veiterr. t f-atre of war, as well U upon the &::: s themselves in that region. Xe from p.f'.glurn indicates the Grfflans w. preparing for eventual c by m.hi:. r-inforrements south ward. The H;s.-;:an advance has been 10 'Peeiy that German divisions ad-B'-fc.g on thu Vi.-tula re hardly Iik!y to arrive in time to tihsUt their wd pre.se! tiiy in Gali'ia. Moving on BeHin. PWropra.1 r iorts the Russians are CriTiejf t;.t f;-nr;ans before them on t et.;rri bank t the Vistula. The 'Mlan advance cow o-rupiei alrnos-t -rai!;t line from Koen'.gsber;r. on Ealti", Kat I'ru-ia. to Cracow. Aiietria U d :- ;.. ed of a tremendous ttle line or one hundred to three asdred rr,:;.s long may sweep Into, Cwian empire. , Kr.nIIi.il tral-fasts were un- A,4 this morning while the people JAPAN AGREES TO STAND TO FINISH Petroerrf ,.,t in i .. .1 - 'uiiio aipatn ptates Japan, nasi kin .i. . : - j ii.i- agreement o: me allies uoi tn .!. ' j J allied r, ME ROCK. XO. 2S0. GALLING FOR ANOTH UNTIL GERMS AR C THE WEATHER fmrct Till 7 P. M. Tomorrow, tot Rock Island. Davanort, Molina tnd Vicinity.. Unsettled weather with showers to night and Friday, not much change in temperature. Temperature at 7 m. 56. Highest yesterday 68. Lowest last night 55. Velocity of wind at 7 a. m. 10 miles per hour. Precipitation .11 inch. Relative humidity at 7 p. m. 63, at 7 a. m. 84. Stage of water 3.S, a fall of .6 la lait 21 hours. J. M. SHERIER, Local Forecaster. ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS. Evening stars: Mpmiit v. Mnrs. Jupiter. Morning star: Saturn. Arcturus. "queen of the summer sky " due west. low. is In line with the han dle of the Great Dipper, which lies north of it. read the graphic account by Field Marshal French, commander of Brit ish forces on the continent, of the he roic fight by the British expenditlon- ary force to keep from tieing annihi lated. British Back Like Wildcats. bombshell on the English public, who up to the present time had not been permitted to know how hard pressed their army had been. August 26 the British forces faced the bulk and strength of four German army corps and were in danger of befng surround ed and destroyed. The heroic stand of German Dorrien on the British left undoubtedly saved the day. On this day the British stood alone, even the French cavalry, on account of exhaus tion of their horses, being unable to cover the retreat. The feeling of op timism which has prevailed in Eng land the last 24 hours has had only one check. This was the report of the wreck of the steamer Oceanic. The Oceanic ran ashore. She has been taken over for government ser vice. All officers and crew were saved. London. Sept. 10. A Ghent dispatch says: Thirty-five thousand German sailors arrived in Brussels in the past two days. Indicating the German re serve has been completely mobilized." FLYER DIES SACRIFICE TO WRECK FOE'S PLANE London, Sept, 10. Captain Nester off. one of the most daring Russian aviators and the first of his country men to loop the loop, sacrificed hi life in a successful attempt to des troy an. Austrian aeroplane, ear's a Petrograd dispatch to the Reuter Tel egram company. The report from the front was that Captain Nesteroff was returning frcfrn an aerial reconnaissance when he saw an .Austrian aeroplane hovering over the Russian forces, presumably with the intention of dropping bombs. The Russian aviator immediately, changed his course and headed for the Austrian at full speed. A Tt h nil c Vl Tie TT111S t have known that victory by such tactics could be gained' only at the coet of his own lire, ne dashed into the Austrian aeroplane. Both machines plunged to the earth in the collision, the two aviators suf fering death. A revolver battle between British and German aviators in aeroplanes Is described by a Dutchman in a dispatch to the Kxpress from Rotterdam. He pot the story from an officer of the German flying corps who was recon noitering in northern France after the battle of Mons. A German flyer. It appears. was r',.rl bv a BritUh aeroplane and tried to prevent the Briton from climb ing higher, but a the British machine .oi-rt handled he was unable to do so. Kvidently each feared the .ti.r wnuld droo bombs. The German said to his mechanic as the Briton pained the position over head: "Our last hour Is come. His mechanic said in reply J?-of half hour." "Our The British aviator, however, had no to rtroD. The Germans began nr t iha 'Briton, meantime flying toward their own lines. The British machine. re-enforcHl by a rnrucu ...w- opiane, pursued them. After roucn in whi-h the n;ore revolver nhootine, men In all threw aeroplanes partici pated, the Germans reactieo camp and the allied flyers retired . . i i . , i .1 their No one was mi ujr i,rtin Sot. 9. via London Sept. 10 Sergeant Major Werner of the av iation corps returned yesterday from the front after flights over French and British troops. He dettrribed as his niobt thrilling flight a battle with two aeroplanes, one a British biplane and .. , .v. . ivom h monoplane. Both inn jm-t - - - . . i -V. 4 marh which were Taster xnnn J" old and batterer f.. . enemies flew beside snd - h said .i.Ant m for a long time, ne saiu. '' .., fhev ..muioiI momentarily mat iney "I expectea mum w ould throw borabi THURSDAY. SKl'TEMIJKR 10, 1914. TWELVE PAG ES. CHICAGO MEN HELD IN JAIL ARE UT OUT Party of Correspondents Reach Rotterdam After Rough Experience. PUT IN FILTHY PRISON McCutcheon, Bennett, Hansen and Others Two Weeks With German Army. Rotterdam, Sept. 10. A party of American correspondents who accom panied the German army for nearly two weeks across Belgium and into France arrived on Dutch soil today aft er being held prisoners by the Ger mans for four days under unusual cir cumstances. The party crossed the Dutch border without permission of the authorities. The party Included Roger Lewis, Asso ciated Press; Irvin Cobb, Saturday Evening Post; James O'Donnell Ben nett, John T. McCutcheon and Harry Hansen, all of Chicago. For the last week the party had been under sur veillance at Aix-La-Chapelle. After being told they were not pris oners the Americans were locked up with three other correspondents, Mau rice Gerbault, Belgian; Lawrence Stev ens, an American artist, formerly of Detroit, and Victoria Hennebeard, King Albert's fipttc13' photographer. Stev ens had been sentenced to be shot as an English spy. Close to Explosives. The jail was filthy, harboring a large number of French prisoners. On one side of the Jail was stalked tons of German high explosives, while French prisoners were constantly lighting cigarets under a cover of straw bed ding. The Americans and three other sus pects were finally removed to a small cafe adjoining the prison. During their imnrisonment the Americans were visited hvv an intoxicated German officer, who called them English spies, Ravine: "Ah! They call tnemseives Americans, but they speak English. At Beaumont the Americans saw nun dreds of French and English prisoners being brought from Maubeuge. All were well treated. GERMAN SHIPS ARE SUNK BY CRUISERS OF FRENCH Paris, Sept. 10. A dispatch from Bordeaux to the Havas Agency states that two German merchant ships have been sunk in the Atlantic by the vronrh cruisers Conde and Decartes, aided bv the British cruiser Bristol. Herman merchantmen known to be in the Altantic include the Graecia of the Hamburg-American fleet and the W m n nrina Willielm and the Ncckar of he North German Lloyd. Stockholm, via London, Sept. 10. Anxietv Is felt over the nonarrival of the Finnish passenger Meamer sum- Kortr coming from Kaumo. r lniana. with many British and Americans aboard. It is feared she was tapiureu bv German warships. New York. Sept. 10. The North German Lloyd steamer Brandenburg eluded all British warships on her way across the Atlantic from riuiaaeipnia, ..,uh ci.o left Aug. 23. and arrived (nut nicht at Drothelm, Norway, ac- f-dinir to a cablegram received here today. Honolulu. Spt. 10. The North Ger man Llovd steamship Prina Walde mar put in here today for refuge and to cable for instructions, iter sia will be indefinite. URGES ALL TO BE NEUTRAL Senator Stone Says This Will Aid Mediation Chance. Washington, D. C Sept. 10. An earnest admonition to Auiennua iu preserve the fplrit of neutrality in the nresen. European war despite any sympathies or prejudices, was deliv ered in the senate today by Chairman Stone of the foreign relations commit tee, in a prepared speech he urged that naturalised American tw-uo from European countries onserve closely the president s neutrality proc lamation. Our power for effective mediation. he said, "will be materially aiminism a If any government or people Decome convinced that we are unrnenaiy o It" .... He deplored a tendency whlcn ne Kld had appeared In 'influential news papers and perfodicalo" to take tides. ISLAND ARGUS; ALFIILL E BE FEATED; AUSTRIA PEACE PACTS FOR NATIONS AT WAR ? Great Britain, France, Ger many, Russia and Japan Signing With Uncle Sam. Washington, D. C, Sept 10. In the midst of the European war Great Brit ain. France. Spain and China have agreed to sign peace commission treaties with the United States. The treaties are ready for signature and are regarded by President Wilson and Secretary Bryan of far-reaching impor tance. One effect will be to prevent the United States being drawn sud denly into the conflict. Similar agree ments with Turkey an5 Greece are al most ready for signature. Germany, Russia and Japan have signified ac ceptance of these treaties, though ne gotiations have not advanced to the point of drafting conventions. WAR LOAN FOR GERMANY SAID TO BE ONE BILLION Washington. Sept. 10. A wireless message to the German embassy here said that a German w ar loan had been announced of 1,000.000,000 In treasury bills and that an unlimited state loan at 5 per cent was given out at 97.5. T ondon. Sent. 10. A dispatch to Reuter's Telegram company from Am sterdam quotes Berlin papers as say ing that they learn from a reliable source that the directors of the Imper ial bank soon will publish the terms of the first German war loan, it is said that the loan will be $250,000,000, consisting of 5 per cent treasury bonds and government notes. Koin win ne issued at 97.50. The amount of the first issue Is not stated. The bonds and notes will be divided into five sec tions of $50,000,000 each, redeemable at Intervals oi six years ueginu'ns Oct. 1, 19U. CALL ARMY TO MARSEILLES British Order Regiment at Hongkong to France. Shanghai. Sept. 10. Reports from Hongkong are that the Brltisii corn wall and Gloucestershire regiments have been ordered to Marseilles. The troops will leave Hongkong on a steamer Sept. 14. lne nospitai snip Delta and a cruiser will accompany the transport. GERMAN FLEET IS MOVING FOR EAST London. Sept. 10. A Copenhagen dispatch announces that a German squadron of 31 ships. Including battle ships, cruisers and torpedo boat de stroyers, has been observed at various points along the gulf of Bothnia steam ing east. ION MEN. SAYS WAR flfiUST THERE'S A REASON BORDEN IS KILLED III AN AUTO SMASH. REPLY TO KAISER Ocean City, N. J.. Sept. 10. Dr. Mat thew S. Borden, an officer of the Equit able Life Assurance company and son of the late millionaire cotton mill own er of Fall River, Mass.; J. Harvey Wood and Mrs. Wood of New York, Bind Leo Gulfreund, Dr. Borden's chauf feur, met instant death yesterday at the Palmero station of the' Reading railroad in a collision between Dr. Bor den's automobile and a moving locomo tive. A fifth passenger, a man named Ryan, Tvas injured. Dr. Borden and his party left New Y'ork yesterday for Capo May, where they were to attend a convection. They dined at Lakewood and left thre to make the remainder of the trip by moonlight. Their car was going at 35 to 40 miles an hour, it is estimated, when it crashed into the moving loromotive, which was making about 20 miles an hour. Dr. Borden was at the wheel. Mr. and Mrs. Wood, clasped in each ther's arms, were hurled from the v. reck of the car 30 feet or more to the. fetation platform and killed so quickly that their embrace was not broken. Dr. Borden's body was caught beneath the locomotive wheels and carried 600 feet. Gulfreund, the chauf feur, was hurled 40 feet. MRS BUSSE FILES A SUIT OVER FARM OF HUSBAND Waukegan, 111., Sept. 10. Foreman, Levin & Robertson, Chicago attorneys, tiled a partition suit today in the Lake county circuit court on behalf of Mrs. Fred Busse. widow of Chicago's former mayor, in which she asks court action with reference to Pine Meadow Farm, the $50,000 property of the for mer mayor at Fox Lake. The suit is directed against the for mer mayor's brother, George Busse, who asserts that a partnership existed tn the farm. The bill fixes a valuation of $:i5.000 on the farm and $20,000 on stock. Mrs. Busse alleges that George Busse always has been Idle and con vivial in disposition and habits, that his brother always looked after him, and that he purchased the farm and sent George there to look after his in terests, paying him $100 a month. She says her husband frequently threatened to disclwrge him and re frained only on intercession by their mother. She denies any partnership agreement existed. George Busse has taken possession of all the books of the farm and dairy business, she says, including those pertaining to extensive milk shipments from the $10,000 Guernsey herd of prize cattle, and has refused her at torneys access to the books or forma tion about the business. He even has p-evented her agents from going on Uie farm. t4te charges. Mrs. Busse asks that a receiver be named for the farm, and that an in junction issue restraining George Busse from disposing of the property. or incumbering it. No action as yet has been taken on the petition. TO SUE FOR PEACE? PRESIDENT WILL Nothing to Be Construed as De sire for Peace Contained in Wilhelm's- Note. Washington, D. C, Sept. 10. Em peror William's cabled protest to President Wilson against the use by the allied army of dum dum bullets, and participation in the war by Bel gium civilians and the nature of Wil son's reply was anxiously awaited in diplomatic and other circles today, The kaiser did not ask Wilson to take any action it was learned. Wilson said he would reply to Em peror William s message, which con tained nothing that could be con strued as a desire for peace negotia tions. The president said talk about peace was "still in the air." DEMOCRATS HAVE AGREED ON A TAX Emergency Legislation Will Net Revenue Increase of $107,000,000 Year. Washington, D. C, Sept. 10. The democratic ways and means commit tee is completing the war revenue tax bill providing a three per cent tax on all freight transportations, an increase of 50 cent on beer, and 20 cents a gallon on all domestic wines. This will net an estimated revenue of $1'7,000,000 a year. President Wilson agreed to a freight tax, although he first opposed it. STEAMSHIP RED CROSS IS DELAYED INDEFINITELY New York, Sept. 10. The question raised by the British and French gov ernments regarding the neutrality status of the steamship Red Cross If it carries Germans among the crew when it sails has delayed apparently Indefinitely the departure of the ship. The Red Cross, formerly the Hamburg-American liner Hamburg, was loaned to the American Red Cross by that line', and has among its engine force, stewards and sailors a number of native Germans who have taken out their first, but not their final, naturalization papers in the United States. It was reported yesterday that if the Red Cross organization sought to supplant these the ship would be withdrawn from the organi zation's service. Washington, Sept. 10. After a con ference with Counselor Lansing of the state department yesterday Captain Rust. U. S. N., retired, commander of the ship, prepared to return to New York today and complete his crew. employing only Americans or other neutrals by advice of the department HOME EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS. AUSTRIA NOW READY TO SUE TO STOP WAR Growing Internal Trou bles Forcing Peace Up Emperor Joseph. CZAR N EARING BERLIN Capture of Breslau Imminent Archduke Frederick Loses 120,000 Men, Report. , RUSSIANS ARE SAID TO BE DRIVING THE GERMANS BEFORE THEM ON THE WEST BANK OF THE VISTULA. IT IS BELIEVED! A STOUT STAND OF GERMANS AND AUSTRIANS WILL BE MADE AT CRACOW. SERVIAN TROOPS CROSSED THE RIVER SAVE AND INVADED HUNGARY. MONTENEG RINS ARE IN BOSNIA. London, Sept. 10. A Petrograd dis patch says the Austrians have begun evacuating Cracow. Rome, Sept. 10. A Vienna dispatch says: "Advance guards of the Russian center are marching toward Berlin. Russian troops have invaded Silesia and the capture of ' Breslau Is immi nent. According to Galician advices the Austrians have resumed the of fensive against the Russians with dis astrous results. There were further great Austrian losses.- London, Sept. 10. A Chronicle Pe trograd dispatch says: "In Russian and foreign diplomatic circles it is believed Austria will sue for peace within a fortnight as the only means of avoiding a complete breakup of the empire, owing to growing internal troubles." London, Sept. 10. A dispatch from Rome says: "A message from Vienna states it is' officially admitted there that Archduke Frederick lost 120,000 men In recent Galician battles, or one fourth his entire command. Germans are marching toward Poland to assist the Austrians, but before this aid can be given they must cross the Vistula, where the Russians are preparing to check them."" ; U. S. PACKERS CONTROL ARGENTINE BEEF OUTPUT New Y'ork, Sept. 10. Beef packers of the United States are now In abso lute control of the Argentine output of beef, thus destroying the value of Ar gentine beef as a competitive check on the price of native beef, according to testimony given before Chief Magis trate McAdoo yesterday at the inquiry into the advance in food prices. : Jacob Bloch, member of a firm own ing several meat markets in this city, asserted that every bit of beef from Argentina must now be bought from the American packers. As an instance of how this control Influenced the price, the witness stated that at one time beef hearts could be bought for 25 cents each. When the American packers obtained control of the Argentine output, he continued, beef hearts were put into cold stor age, so that today the cost f these hearts is about $1.50 each. The packers have arranged the terri tory outside New York CUy so that the small dealers are at their mercy. Mr. Bloch testified. As remedies for the present condi tions he offered the following sugges tions for action by congress: An export duty should be placed on beef; the government lands of the west should be thrown open for graa ing; killing of any female calf under 3 or 5 years old, or of any calf weigh ing less than 150 pounds, should be prohibited; 10 per cent of the Income tax should be used for fostering the . raising of cattle; publi slaughter j houses, like those in England, should j be established. Pathfinder Sunk by Torpedo. London, Sept. 10. The British cruiser Pathfinder, destroyed in the North sea Sept. 6, supposedly by a mine, was in reality sunk by a tor pedo. BUBONIC PLAGUE IN TURKISH RANKS j London, Sept. 10. A Constantino- j pie dispatch says Bubonic plague i i ravaging Turkish troops at Smyrna; and other stations.