Newspaper Page Text
lO PAGES Bad it HOME EDITION MONDAY EVENING- TOPEKA, KANSAS, SiaTEMBER 21, 1914. MONDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS ( CATHEDRAL OF NOTRE NOW BUT A SMOKING RUIN German Artillery Makes a Tar get of Priceless Structure. Protest Goes Out to World at Universal Loss. IT SHELTERED JOAN OF ARC Venerated as Perfect Type of Gothic Design. Washington Receives Formal Declaration From France. Bordeaux. Sept. 21. The Franch foreign office has forwarded to neu tral governmept a protest against the German bombardment of the Cathe dral of Rheims couched in the follow ing terms: "Without being able to invoke even the appearance of military necessity, and for the mere pleasure of destruc tion, German troops have subjected the Cathedral of Rheims to a system atic and furious bombardment. At this hour the famous Basilica is but a hean of ruins. "It is the duty of the government of the republic to denounce 10 universal Indignation this revolting act of van dalism, which, in giving over to the flames this sanctuary of history, de prives humanity of an incomparable portion of its historic patrimony. Received at Washington. Washington, Sept. 21. The French ambassador, Jules Jusserand, present ed the protest of his government as given in the foregoing dispatch to the state department today and personally read it to Secretary Bryan. It was signed by Foregin Minister Cathedral a Charred Ruin. London, Sept. 21. The Rheims cor respondent of the Daily Mail sends this Story of the damage wrought to the cathedral there: The magnificent Cathedral of Rheims, which was a national monu ment of universal fame, is now no more than an empty shell of charred and blackened walls. It is not yet known to what extent its stone work has been weakened by the flames or whether it can later be restored, but it will never be what it was before. "The fire started between four, and five Sunday afternoon after shells had been crashing int . the town all day. Over 500 fell between early morning and sunset. A quarter of the city sev eral hundred yards square was set afire, the flames spreading from street to street., . ........ . .. "The cathedral on. Thursday had been turned into a hospital for the Herman wounded so as to secure for the building the protection of the Red i Cross flag. When the first shells struck the roof every one believed it was merely a stray shot, but later in the day a German battery on a hill (Continued or Page Two.) DON'T ASK PEACE Germans Officially Deny Yon Bernstorff Interview. No Peace Without Honor, Says Government Organ. Berlin, Sept. 21. Commenting upon the alleged statement of Count Von Bernstorff, the German ambassa dor to the United States, that his na tion was looking for peace upon con dition that the integrity 'of German territory would be preserved, or as so presented in Washington dispatches, the North German' Gazette, the official organ, declared in its Issue of Sept. 20 that the government had not even considered the matter." "The assertions are intended," the paper says, "to foster the impression that we have tired of the war, in spite of our victories in the east and in the west. Peace overtures may not be looked for until war forced ruthlessly on our people is brought to an honorable conclusion." The official statement given out last night made mention of the bombard ment of Rheims. It said that Rheims was in the battle lines of the French and the Germans were obliged to bombard it. The necessity for this action was regretted but the Are of the French, it was stated, came from that direction. Orders to save the cathedral at Rheims have been given. The statement also made reference to the progress on other points -of the line. In this respect it says: "The attacks on the French are progressing at several points in the central Vosges. At Donon, near Se nones, 27 miles southeast of Luneville, near Saales, in the German Vosges their offensive has been repulsed." There is no news from the eastern Prussian front camp. FIGHT III CLOUDS. French Avlator Destroys Two German Aeroplanes in Three Days. Paris. Sept. 21. Jules Vedrines, the noted French aviator, has destroyed two German Taube aeroplanes in three days. IM.. laa, aortal DTlf.l POmt-Tlt fumirml OT1 ilMT -.r"r- . , .. niaa A Vrpni-h mnvnv was at-1 tacked by a Taube. Vedrines, accom panied by an officer, rose in pusuit. Within ten minutes the two aero planes had risen to a height of six thousand feet. Each machine was armed with a light mitreilluses and fired furiously at each other. The marksmanship of Vedrines" gun man was so superior and his evolutions so much better than the Germans' that the Taube was soon riddled and dropped to the ground, both its occupants being killed. The battle waj over In fifteen minutes. LAST DAY OF SOER. Washington, Sept. Zl. "Good by Summer," with its delightful minor plaint is "the" song for ev erybody to sing today. This is the finale, the end, the finish, the climax of the good old summer time. That is. its official end, the day before the beginning of the autumnal equinox. But you can be cheerful, for "Indian summer" comes next month. OPEN UPJJOFFERS Germans Respond Liberally to War Loan Plan. Author of Quo Yadis Is Not a Prisoner. Berlin. Sept. 21. Subscriptions thus far received to the German war loan have assured the brilliant success of the war loan plan. One paper speaks of the public response as "the victory of those at the Somme." The call was for 4,200,000,000 marks ($1,050,000,000) and with a number of reports not yet received the total subscription to the imperial bonds already is 2,940,000,000 marks. The treasury certificates which were offered to the amount of 1.000,000,000 marks have been over subscribed by 260,000,000 marks. The newspapers exprei - pride that this result has been reached without foreign subscription or necessity of sending subscription blanks to many of the well-to-do Ger mans now in the field. ' Advices from Vienna deny the re port that Henry Sienkiewich, the Pol ish writer and author of "Quo Vadis," is a prisoner of war of the Austrians. He is in Vienna en route for Tirol and is preparing to write a book on his experiences In the war. BEAR IS COMING! Further Advance of Russian Forces Is Announced.. Thousands of Prisoners and Scores of Guns Taken. r Pelrograd. Sept. 21.-r-Further ad- , vance of Russian forces was announced by the war office today. A daring night attack, the culmination of a day's bom bardment, overwhelmed the Austrian defenders of Tubleck. on the Ran river, and the Russian forces captured thou sands of prisoners and a score or more of guns, together with large quantities of supplies, left behind by the Austrian retreat. "Przemysl is now under attack from three separate directions," the war of fice statement declared. "The bom bardment is continuing with our forces steadily advancing on the outer en trenchments. Grodek, on the east ol Przemysl, has been occupied; Sam boy, to the south, has fallen before our armies and we have established a line of further communication on the west through the capture of Dubieck. "The retreating Austrian forces burned Jaroslav before their evacua tion." . VILLA FOR CHIEF Passengers From Mexico Say He Will Supplant Carranza. Washington Hears Uprising May Follow Obregon's Arrest. Vera Cruz, Sept. 21. That General Francesco Villa will be named to suc- ceed General Carranza as supreme I chief of the constitutionalist " party when the generals and governors meet in the capital on October 1, is the confident prediction of passengers ar riving from Mexico City Sunday. Many Mexican refugees have ap pealed to American Consul Canada at Vera Cruz to be taken away on the transports when the American troops evacuate Vera Cruz. They are fearful of the consequences when the consti tutionalists take charge of the port. It is understood that the appeal has been referred to Washington. Obregon Arrest Reported. Washington. Sept. 21. Reports re ceived here Sunday night that Gen eral Villa has jailed General Obregon and his staff were regarded as a fore runner of further disturbances in Mexico and, if verified, will probably lead to delay in the moving of Amerl can troops from Vera Cruz. General Obregon is regarded as the ablest leader in. northern Mexico next to Villa ' and it is reared that his ar rest may lead to a strong uprising of his followers in Sonora and Slnaloa. IT WIU BE COOLER, Unsettled Weather Ahead for Topeka and Kansas. Light and widely scattered showers are all the rainfall reported in Kansas in the last two days. The temperature continues above normal in all parts of Kansas. The lowest temperature at Topeka today was 69 at 6 o'clock this morn ing. The forecast calls for unsettled and cooler weather tonight and clear and cooler weather Tuesday. The temperature today at Topeka was 10 above normal. The stage of the river in Topeka is S.l feet. The hourly temperatures. 7 o'clock 70 11 o'clock . 73 12 o'clock . 75 1 o'clock . 78 '2 o'clock . .80 .81 .84 .84 8 o'clock . 9 o'clock . 1 Oo'clock . LONDON IS EAGER For News Confirming Reported German Retreat. "Stonewall" Yon Kluck Main tains His Resistance. IS TENTH DAY AT AISKE Trieste Governor Says Hell Hold Austria's Seaport. "It's a Long Way to Tlpperary" Catches London Fancy. London, Sept. 21. England waited in vain today for confirmation of the report that the bulk of the German army had begun to retire from France and prepared for another period of anxiety and suspense which must last as long as the great battle of the Aisne now in its tenth day remains un decided. Though British officials say the al lies still are gaining ground their pro gress necessarily is snail-like and the public here is beginning to feel that the turning point of the battle never will be reached until one side or the other has been outflanked. The suggestions that the allies HARDY FIGHTERS fmmmmmm m i mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm sssitMSMistMfc shit- . -vj :ms feyJi rV"5 VXjNH?H- H his V Av.jj Indian troops marching to join General French. () Underwood & Underwood. The first detachment of Indian troops who made the trip by way of the Suez canal and were rushed to the front from the south of France by rail, have just joined the allies. These dusky hued "fire-eaters" from the broilintr sands of India are considered as being; the hardiest fighters of Great Britain's colonial army. would accomplish this Saturday or Sunday on the German right was not fulfilled and apparently their efforts are being continued today. For days the British press referred to "Von Kluck peril," but so far the German commander has been able to check what must have been terrific pressure from the British and - French left. Naturally there has been no intimation from German sources in corroboration of the report that a comparatively small part of the German army pur poses to maintain merely a defensive position in .France while the main body makes a stand on the frontier (Continued on Pace Two.) WILL NAME DATE President to Say When Vera Cruz Will Be Evacuated. Gen. Villa Begins Operations Against Carranza's Followers. Washington, Sept. 21. President Wil son will receive Wednesday a detailed report of conditions in Mexico from Paul Fuller; who has Just returned from a series of conferences with General Carranza end other Mexican leaders. The president will decide today or to morrow on the exact date for the evacuation of Vera Cruz and measures to be taken for the protection of refu gees. That there will be no delay in the evacuation except that necessary in turning over affairs to the Mexicans was indicated after a conference be tween the President and Secretary Garrison. Mr. Garrison told the pres ident that transports would reach Vera Cruz about Sept. 26. He refused to predict when the troops actually would leave Mexico, but indicated he believed there would be no delay be cause of the fears of refugees in Vera Cruz. Till Invades Sonora. El Paso, Tex.. Sept. 21. Two bri gades of General Villa's troops have begun an invasion of the state of So nora, to combat the forces under Gen eral Benjamin Hill, who has refused to obey the commands of General Villa as against contrary orders from General Carranza. Peso Worth 19 cents. Mexico City, Sept. 21. General Carranza, supreme head of the con stitutionalists, has accepted the resig nation of - 3:-eral Villareal, who was acting minister of finance. The Mex ican peso is now quoted at nineteen cents gold. BflCKOARO Germans Reported Retiring to Their Own Defenses. Leave 300,000- to Cover the Big Army's Retreat. SEEN FROrj JlE:rlAES Russians in Victorious Invasion of Galicia. Fortress Proves -Obstacle ; to ' Forward Movement of Czar. London, Sept. 21.--More or less definite rumors continue to circulate in London to the effect that the Ger mans are preparing a great retreat from France on their own border for tifications. The latest of these is a story related by a French officer who has returned to Parte. This French man declares that an aeroplane recon naissance has given rise to the convic tion that a large portion of the Ger man forces is retiring, accompanied by trains of heavy stores and leav- FROM INDIA JOIN' BRITISH AT THE FRONT ing only 200,000 men to cover the re treat. Day and night the assaults con tinued. The Germans, played into ac tion by bands rendering military airs, hurled masses of men on the hastily constructed entrenchments where the allies had dug themselves in as a pro tection against the pitiless artillery concealed on the heights above them. It was cold steel against cold steel and ended in the allies holding their desperately won positions. Russians In Check. -As had been anticipated, a check has been given to the operations of the victorious Russians in Galicia by the strong fortress of Przemysl, which has opened fire with artillery on the Russian invaders. According to ad vices received here, the advance of (Continued on Page Two.) ALLIES RULE SEA Maintain Successful. Blockade of German-Austrian Ports. German Navy as Yet Avoids Open Combat. 1 Bordeaux, via London, Sept. 21. An official ' communication addressed to the navy and reviewing the work of the fleet since tne outDreax oi Hostili ties says: "The navy was called upon to cover the return of troops to t rance xrom Africa which was done satisfactorily. Assisted by the British forces in the channel and the North sea, the com mand of the sea was atttained from the first day the war broke out. The French and British ileet assured tne security of the Mediterranean after flight of the Goeben and the Breslau and the enemy has not appeared again. "The German fleet does not leave its base. Nevertheless the British fleet was able to fight a naval battle off Helgoland from which it emerged vic torious. It is impossible . to know whether the enemy's fleet will end bj accepting the challenge but meanwhile the allied squadrons are mistress of the sea and are blockading the Ger man and Austrian coast; forcing the enemy to live almost exclusively on themselves and reckon only their own resources. This is certain assurance of ultimate success for us it the war is prolonged." The communication proceeds to show that the French seaboard trade continues to enjoy full liberty of move ment and concludes by emphasizing the manner in which the navy and the army have co-operated for the defense of the country. HIS LASTSPEECII Colonel Roosevelt Will Address Big K. C. Meeting. Progressive Gathering Will End His State Tour. EU.'ZATED PART CF SPEECH Appeal From Colorado With held Hutchinson Remarks. Progressive Feared T. R.s Word Would Hurt Party. cotes frg:.ihsu:jsas trip Spoke Several Minutes in To peka From Car Steps. Wears Overcoat With the Bullet Hole in It. (By State Journal Staff Correspondent.) Kansas Citj, Kan.. Sept. 21. Not until this morning has the reason for Colonel Roosevelt's failure to use a part of his capital and labor speech at Wichita and Hutchinson leaked out among his friends and attendants in his Kansas trip. - An appeal from Carl D. Fisher of Sterling, Col., Progres sive candidate for congress from the Second Colorado district, was heeded by the ex-president at Hutchinson and he did not deliver that part of his speech relating to the Colorado situa tion. , - . Fisher, -on hearing of Roosevelt's intentions, hurried from his home in Colorado to meet the colonel at Wich ita. He requested a personal conference but was unable to meet the ex-president ur.til he reached the convention hall. It was too late then but fortune favored Fi: er as the lonel was sot able to reach that part of his t&lk. ' At Hutch inson Fisher obtained a conference and the Colorado trouble was not brought out. It was Fisher's claim that Mr. Roosevelt had been misinformed on the strike situation in Colorado and he asked that a further investigation be made. He told the colonel that the speech, if delivered, would ruin the Progressive party in 'Colorado. He said that the speech, as it read, would endorse mob violence, as the Colorado people looked upon the matter. At any rate,' Colonel Roosevelt re frained from going into the Colorado sections of his speech. Tonight Mr. Roosevelt addresses a big Progressive meeting in Kansas City, Kan. .A parade preceded a meeting at a theater in Kansas City, Mo., this . ternoon. In his address at the theater CoL Roosevelt laid particular stress upon the appeal made by the Progressive party to the people to think out po litical problems for themselves. "The fundamental appeal I have to make to the American people is that they eb treu to themselves," he said. "I ask you to review the problems be fore os today and then vote as you be lieve. If you honestly disbelieve in the power of the American people to govern themselves; if you fear that a pare democracy is not a safe instru ment in this country; if you disbe lieve our economic and labor plat form, tlsn vote against us.' PoUdes, Not Party. - "The Republican party of today says to don, 'don't abandon the party of Abraham Lincoln.' I say to you, 'don't abandon the principles of Abra ham Lincoln.' , "The people of the United States should - not hesitate ' to choose new methods necessitated by a new day. Don't be iwund by the dead hand of tradition. "If there should be a ware here, I want our generals loyal to the spirit of RATTLE OF AISI1E TO DRAG TO 17EARY LEHGTIl Washington's Continentals.' but they'd be disloyal to It if they were to go to war with flintlocks. So :t Is with us. We mim discard the protective tacticu produced by our worn condition. We must adopt those principles which adopt themselves to the necessities of the American people." The colonel asserted that whisky is usually an ally of crooked politics and complimented th Pigressive party in this country for having the courage to face the issue, while iie other parties sidestepped. His Labor Ideas. ' Speaking of industrial and labor con ditions he aaid: We want prosperity and an ample reward for invested capital, and with out giving the latter we can't have the former. - However, we want to see that a just share of that prosperity goes to tne man who works and without whom nothing could be produced. The program proposed by the Re publicans would give too much to a few men, while the Democrats would not give enough to any man. ' I believe in trade unions and in every organization that will give the laboring man not only a bigger part of the industrial rewards, but of the in dustrial development as well. However, he must be efficient, for the inefficient man s a dead weight upon the com munity. "It is the duty of every citizen to shape conditions so that the average man may be enabled to get the great est possible reward from his qualifica tions without having the fruits of his lamor filched from him." Mr. Roosevelt concluded with an ap peal to voters to free themselves from the slavery of names the slavery of party." Several hundred persons were turn ed away from the theater where the meeting was held. Manq women were in attendance. "Lay Sermon" in Topeka. A little lay sermoi. preached from the steps of a Pullman car on the Golden State Limited of the Rock T'and emerged from between the ever-exhib ited rows of white teeth and Brazilian bronzed background of Colonel Theo dore Roosevelt in Topeka Sunday eve ning. A crowd of probably 500 persons warmed around the colonel and lis tened intentively to every hoarse word spoken by the ex-president he stood there, the setting sun glistening over hij fiery countenance. T. R. was tired no doubt of it. He appeared to be in m.ed of rest -after his strenuous trip through Kansas but he did not lack the enthusiasm even though he avoid ed the political issue of the day, stating that the Sabbath was no time for dis cussions of that kind. "You all know what I am here forF he exclaimed to the crowd after it had been . quieted. "I am endeavoring to work for Vic Murdock and Henry Allen and trifr eompariota but this is Sun day and I don't believe you care to talk politics." .- Then the colonel spied two babies held up above the crowd by stalwart fathers. "There Is the hope of the nation and of you and I," he said, pointing to one of the children. "See that little tow head that's what we must think of in this state and this country." - (Continued on Page 10.) FATAL AUTO ACCIDENT Nebraskan Killed at Concordia This Morning When Car Overturned. Concordia, Sept, 21.: G. W. Adams, merchant of Goehner, Neb., was killed here today when his motor car overturned and pinned him beneath, breaking his neck. He was racing with another car and the accident oc curred when he attempted to make a short turn. His daughter and son-in-law, who were in the car with blm, were slightly injured. - SOW OF TODAY'S WAR NEWS IN EUROPE The Montenegrin army baa occupied the town of Roggitza. German officials make It plain today that they will not consider peace over tures. Prince George of Servia was wound ed while beading a cavalry charge j Sunday. ... Some of the Genua heavy artillery ts described as resting upon cement foundations. The French and British have ab solute control of the sea. The Ger man fleet has not left its base. For nine days in the battle of the Aisne soldiers have camped in water and are living on beets and sugar. Advance of the Russian, forces, cul minating in the capture of thousands of prisoners and a score of guns, is announced today. President Poincalre of France has directed a formal protest to all neu tral powers against the destruction of the historic cathedral of Rheims by German crtlllery. The battle of the Aisne, unprece dented in history . for slaughter and destruction, entered upon Its ninth day today without any decisive advan tage to either side. It la believed that the Germans are retreating to the fortresses In Ger many and that only 200,000 men are left to defend the fortined lines and cover the retirement. An incessant cold rain has flooded the valley of the Aisne. The river bas overflowed its banks, roads and fields are heavy, and trenches filled with water. The men are drenched to the skin day and night and French sol diers coming to Paris from the front are encrusted with mod. Wornoot men are succumbing to the hardships of Bgbttng and living in the open un der sncn weather conditions. Trans Donation of aU kinds, for both aides, lis rendered macfa more difficult . PROMISES Allies Believed Have Gained Slight Advantage. Have Entrenched Their Line on Higher Ground. 6EC:,!JL"S LIVE Cil CEETS For Nine Days Have Camped in ; Water. .. .'-' ARE OUD KlSTCilY FAST World's Greatest Artillery En gagement In Progress Experience of Russo-Japanese War Valuable at Aisne. Paris, Sept. 21. There is little change In the situation in the great battle of the Aisne, according to the latest offi cial announcements. The extreme left of the allied forces continue to bear the brunt of the fighting and ono time Sat urday or Sunday,, the official reports do not bring out the time clearly, the Ger- tnana In n . " . a u. u wuuticr Ml TMVi gained some ground which, however, was speedily regained. Elsewhere along- the big battle front the successes of one aide bar been counterbalanced by forward movements of the other, but military experts here claim the allies have bet- tered their position so far as it affects the continuation of the struggle since they have reached and entrenched themselves on high ground. . The best opinion here, however, In clines to the belif that the frontal at tacks of forces, hot-'- apparently of equal strength, will contnue for some time yet without result unless some thing unforeseen happens. The havoc wrought in the famous ca- thedral of Rheims by the German suns as told in official and other dispatches from the front, is the subject of bitter comment here. It is said the French government will lodgu a protest with all the powers regardin- the bombard ment of the cathedral, which unofficial , dispatches say was sheltering several hundred German, wounded and flying a ' Red Cross flag. , . , Copies of letters said to have been -found on German prisoners continue to be made public. One. credited to a . Brunswick noncommissioned officer ; "Our life is not a gay one. For nine days we have camped In water and we . are living on beets and sugar. Bread la ' a luxury. The tension is frightful and - our losses are enormous. There is not a single officer left in my company, which has been reduced from 250 to 60 -men." i Other letters of a similar tenor are . given out and wonder is expressed at how men living on raw vegetables have still the courage to fight with such des peration, especially under the most try ing weather conditions. Reviewed . From London. London. Sept. 21. One of the flere- est battles of all times, which has been raging across northern France for a week past with first a slight advan tage on one - side and then on the other, remains undecided. The great armies which have been fighting for a month with few, if any, intermissions, have' dug themselves Into entrenchments on rivers and mountain ranges on a front reaching from the Olse to the Meuse and thence southeastward along the Franco-Ger- i man frontier. An Artillery Battle. Artillery duels such as never have been seen' before are benig carried on with the hope of compelling the evac uation of the strongly held positions with occasional successes to the op- . posing sides, while the infantry In the face of a galling fire, have charged right up to the guns only to make their opponents give way slightly to . be repulsed with great losses. xne ngnting has been fiercest on the allies' left, which lies on the right bank of the Olse river in the vicinity of Rheims, the famous cathedral . of . which has been set afire by German shells, and between that town and the Argonne ridge it has been give and -take all the time. The French official report, however again claims slight progress on the French left and that the allies have . again repulsed strong frontal attacks between Craonne and Rheims. CAPPER'S MEMORY BAD Republican Nominee . for Governor Caught In Misstatement. Independence, Kan., Sept. 21. Ar thur Capper has a particularly poor ' memory. The banquet that Mr. Cap per attended here the night of Dec 4, 1912, was not a Republican gathering, but the . first' "get together" meeting of the new Progressive party in Mont gomery county. It was so announced, and the tickets, one of which is at hand, i ;ad: "Kansas Progressive Party Banquet. Mr. Capper read his speech from typewritten cards held in bis hand. After he finished he turned these cards . over to the' editor of the Coffey vllle Journal, who printed the speech the next dnv from Mr. CTanner's tnana script under the heading, "Capper Into , the New Party." ' Every other paper using the speech., headed it similarly, and Mr. Capper has waited two years to deny lt The excerpts reprinted recently .were verbatim from Capper's siUSs j , HtB ' charge that his remarks were , i : Ale is absurd.'. .. ' . . - " '' : " y. - U'vath-r Tfnrrift for "STa ' " ' ' Unsettled with probably showers to- night; Tuesday fair and cootec . C