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FIGHTING ALONG THE AISNE
ALLIES HOLD ADVANTAGE
ROUT OF AN AUSTRIAN ARMY
Germans’ Left Wing in France Re
treats More Than 70 Miles
in Two Weeks.
The French official communication is
sued at Paris at 11 o’clock last night
was as follows:—
“This evening general headquarters has
communicated no new information about
the action going on along our front. As
has been remarked before, it is not to be
wondered that during the course of a
battle which has lasted several days no
definite conclusion of any kind can be
inferred. We know, however, that up to
6 o'clock to-night we have not weakened
on any position.”
Herat of Austrian Army in Galicia
Complete.
The British official press bureau issued
the following announcement last night:—
“It is stated from Russian official
sources that the rout of the Austrian army
in Galicia is complete, though full details
have not been received. The Austrian loss
since the taking of Lemberg is estimated
at 200,000 killed and wounded. 100,000
prisoners and 400 guns, many colors and
vast quantities of stores.
"The Germans made desperate efforts to
save the Austrian army, but failed com
pletely.
"At one point the Germans lost 36
pieces of heavy artillery and at another
several dozen pieces of siege artillery.”
As Viewed From London.
The German army, which less than a
fortnight ago was at the “gates of Paris.’
and the right wing of which then extended
to the southeast of the French capital,
was last night drawn up on almost a
straight line, extending from the neigh
borhood of Noyon, in the west, to Bois
Forges on the Meuse, north of Verdun,
with its left resting on the German for
tress of Metz, according to a dispatch
from London last night reviewing the war
situation.
Thus, the right wing, at least, has gone
back more than 70 miles in two weeks,
while the rest of the army has had also
to retire before the whole could find a
ground on which to make another stand
against the advance of the allies. That
the Germans intend to give battle on this
line, with the river Aisne in front of their
right, the hills of Rheims facing their
center and the mountains and forest of
Argonne on their left, there seems to be
little doubt. They went back steadily be
fore the French and English armies, fight
ing only rear guard actions until their
right, in command of Gen von Kluck. got
across the Aisne. Then they turned and
delivered several counter-attacks, which,
however, according to the British official
report, were repulsed, the Germans leav
ing 200 prisoners in the hands of the
British.
Von Klnck’s Counter Attack*.
These counterattacks were doubtless de
livered in the hope of giving the troops
of the right wing, exhausted by the long
advance forward by an almost as long re
treat. the opportunity of resting and pre
paring positions from which they could
resist attacks from the allies and in whb-h
they could await reinforcements before
taking up the offensive again.
The Germans are in the hilly country
around Noyon, on the plateaus north of
Vic-sur-Aisne and Soissons. and north of
Rheims. where they are digging strong
entrenchments and receiving reinforce
ments. But even here this right wing,
which has up to rhe present borne rhe
brunt of the fighting in the advance and
the retreat, is mot altogether safe, for the
French army operating from Amiens clings
to its flank, while the British and French
forces continue to press in front.
It is essential, however, that they
should hold their positions, for they cover
the lines of retreat to the north, which
would be the only way out if defeat should
be their lot. That they realize this is
shown by the fact that they have been
contesting every foot of the ground with
the allied armies the last two days aud
that both sides have suffered heavily.
The British army, as has been its lot
since it landed in France, is taking its
full share in this fighting, which on the
front has been particularly severe since
the Germans crossed the Aisne and made
their first determined stand in the re
treat from Paris.
The German center, which in the last
few days has come more into line with
the two wings, now stretches from the
hights north of Rheims to the western
foothills of the Argonne ridge, dipping
a little south to touch Ville-sur-Tour! e,
just northeast of Camp de Chalons. This
is all high, rough ground, in many places
covered by heaty forest, which may by
this time have been destroyed.
German Left Driven Further Back.
The German left has been driven back
a little further than the center, and holds
the ground from west of the Argonne
hills north of Varennes. which the French
have reoccupied, to the Meuse, which it
crosses at Consenvoye, and thence south
eastward to Metz.
The crossing of the Meuse which the
Germans have elected at Consenvoye is
juat out of range of the fortress guns of
Verdun, so that as far as the battle now
pending is concerned, they have not to
reckon with this stronghold, except as it
offers support to the French in case the
allies be compelled to retire.
The Germans on this long line cover as
many lines of retreat as possible, includ
ing those to Namur. Givet. Mezieres. Se
dan and Stenay. and should soon be ready,
if they have not already begun, to give
battle, or. if the offensive conies from the
other side, to defend their positions.
It is believed that Gen Joffre. the French
commander-in-chief, retains the initiative,
having received reinforcements to relieve
his overworked troops, but whether he
will try again to envelop the German
right, or to break up the crown prince's
army on the left, remains to be seen. It is
known that the German right has been
considerably reinforced, so that it would
be more difficult than before to work
around that wing, while the German left
and center. Which also have seen a lot of
hard fighting and held their positions un
til the retirement of the right compelled
them also to fall back, doubtless have
been stiffened despite the fact that many
troops have been sent to the eastern fron
tier.
Losses Enormous.
Neither side has attempted to make any
estimate of the losses in killed, wounded
and captured during the battle of the
Marne, but they must have been
enormous and will doubtless be a blow to
all the countries concerned When they are
disclosed
Mup.v Germap prisoners have fallen into
the hands of the British, and so great a
number of prisoners and stragglers harj
been taken by the French that the
minister of war refuses to make an esti
mate. for fear of being accused of exag
geration. The losses in captured all can
stand, but it is the number of dead and
wounded scattered through the field from
the Marne to the Aisne that is is feared
will be staggering.
Firemen from Paris have been sent out
to carry out sanitary measures on the bat
tlefield, and motor cars with doctors have
left London and Paris to search for any
wounded that might have been overlooked
by the army ambulance corps. It is known
that many wounded are being cared for
by peasants in their cottages, and it is these
who will be taken to the hospitals by the
automobiles.
In Galicia and Poland.
The losses in Galicia and Poland, where
fighting has been going on incessantly for
more than three weeks, are even greater
than those in France, and, according to of
ficial reports the Russians are still fol
lowing the Austrian and German forces in
the hope of striking another blow before
they can reform.
One report from Petrograd says that the
Russians have severed communications be
tween Cracow and Przemysl, the two
fortresses for which the Austrians and
their German allies are heading, and have
begun an advance to sever communications
between Galicia and Budapest.
Meantime, the Russian Gen Rennen
kampff. who, according to Russian report,
invaded East Prussia to compel the Ger
mans to withdraw troops from the west
and thus relieve pressure on the allies, is
having some uifficulty in extricating his
army from a difficult position. He has
been compelled to fall back to fortresses
on his own frontier, where he is waiting
for the Germans under Gen von Hinden
burg. whom some reports say the German
emperor has joined.
WILSON TO THE KAISER.
Final Judgment Reserved—Address to
Belgians and Letter to Poincare.
President Wilson yesterday replied to
the message recently received from Em
peror William protesting against the al
leged use by the allied armies of dumdum
bullets. He said he had read the com
munication with the gravest concern, but
that it would be unwise and premature
for the United States to express any final
judgment in the controversy. The mes
sage was almost identical with the speech
made by the president to the Belgian
commission which protested against al
leged German atrocities. A cablegram,
following the same lines, replying to the
protest of President Poincare of France,
who charged that the Germans were us
ing dumdum bullets, was also prepared.
It was not made public, but was known
to follow closely the text of the presi
dent's message to Emperor William,
which was as follows: —
“I received your imperial majesty's im
portant communication of the 7th am
have read it with gravest interest and
concern. I am honored that you should
have turned to me for an impartial judg
ment as the representative of a people
truly disinterested as respects trie pres
ent war and truly desirous of knowing
and accepting the truth.
“You will, I am sure, not expect me to
say more. Presently. I will prav God very
soon, this wai- will be over. The day of
accounting will then come when I take it
for granted the nations of Europe will as
semble to determine a settlement. Where
wrongs have been committed their conse
quences and the relative responsibility in
volved will be assessed. The nations of
the world have fortunately, by agreement,
made a plan for such a reckoning and set
tlement. What such a plan cannot com
pass, the opinion of mankind, the final
arbiter of all such matters, will supply. It
would be unwise, it would be premature,
for a single government, however fortu
nately separated from the present strug
gle. it would even be inconsistent with the
neutral position of any nation, which like
this has no part in the contest, to form
or express a final judgment.
“I speak thus frankly because I know
that you will expect and wish me to do
so as one friend should to another and
because I feel sure that such a reserva
tion of judgment until the end of the war,
when all its eyents and circumstances can
be seen in their entirety and in their true
relation, will commend itself to you as a
true expression of sincere neutrality.
Woodrow Wilson.”
AUSTRIA WANTED PEACE.
Disclosure by Former British Emhsa
sador to Vienna Published in White
Book.
The British foreign office issued last
evening in the form of a white paper the
report of Sir Maurice de Bunsen, late
British embassador at Vienna, on the rup
ture of diplomatic relations with Austria,
in which the embassador declares that
Austria and Russia had about reached an
agreement on the Austro-Servian dispute
when their conversations “were cut short
by the transfer of the dispute to the more
dangerous ground of a direct conflict be
tween Germany and Russia.”
The embassador says that although two
days previously he had refused to consent
to the continuance of the conversations at
St Petersburg, Count von Berchtold, the
Austro-Hungarian minister of foreign af
fairs. on July 30. although Russia had
then partly mobilized, agreed in a most
friendly manner that the conversations
should be continued.
"From now onward.” says the embas
sador. “the tension between Germany and
Russia was much greater than between
Austria and Russia,, as between the lat
ter an arrangement seemed almost in sight
and on August 1. I was informed by Count
Schebeko. the Russian embassador, that
Count Szapary (Austrian embassador at
St Petersburg) had at last conceded the
main point of issue by announcing to M
Sazonoff. the Russian foreign minister,
that Austria would consent to submit to
mediation the points in the note to Servia
which seemed incompatible with the main
tenance of Servian independence.
"M Sazonoff had accepted the proposal
on condition that Austria would refrain
from actual invasion of Servia. Austria,
in fact, had fully yielded and that she
herself at this point had good hopes of
a peaceful issue is shown by the com
munication made to you on the Ist of
August by Count Mensdorff (Austrian em
bassador at London) that Austria had
neither ‘banged the door’ on compromise
nor cut off the conversations.
“Count Schebeko to the end was work
ing hard for peace. He was employing
the most conciliatory language to Count
von Berchtold and he informed me that
the latter, as well as Count Forgach. had
responded in the same spirit. Certainly
it was too much for Russia to expect
that Austria would hold back her armies.
But this matter could probably have been
settled by negotiations and Count Sche
beko repeatedly told me that he was pre
pared for the acceptance of any reason
able compromise.
"Unfortunately these conversations at
St Petersburg and Vienna were cut short
by the transfer of the dispute to the
more dangerous ground of a direct con
flict between Germany and Russia. Ger
many intervened on July 31 by means of
her double ultimatum to St Petersburg
and Paris. These ultimatums were of a
kind to which only one reply was possible
and Germany declared war on Russia
August 1, and on France August 3 A
few days' delay might in all probability
have saved Europe from one of the great
est calamities in history.”
The embassador then refers to the rup
ture of diplomatic relations between Aus
tria and the allied powers, the details
of which have ,
THE SPRINGFIELD WEEKLY REPUBLICAN: THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 17, 1914.
IRELAND AND BELGIUM
DEMONSTRATION IN LONDON
i Cardinal Mercier Greetedd — SO.OOO
Irishmen and Women March Past
Belgian Primate.
I Remarkable scenes were witnessed in
: London Sunday afternoon outside M est
! minster cathedral. From the balcony of
' the cathedral Cardinal Mercier, primate
i of Belgium and archbishop of Malines,
blessed a procession of London Irishmen
! and women numbering more than 50.000.
t When the cardinal appeared on the
balcony he was faced by a dense crowd,
stretching from one end of the avenue to
the other. He stood between John E. Red
mond, the Irish nationalist leader, and T.
P. O’Connor, with John Dillon, the bishop
of Southwark, and many distinguished
Roman Catholic laymen grouped around.
The appearance of the cardinal was the
signal for an outburst of cheering which
continued for several minutes. He had re
cently returned from the papal conclave
at Rome and during his absence from
Malines be learned of the havoc wrought
by the Germans throughout his arch
diocese. In London, he learned that his
sister and three nephews were among the
refugees from Belgium.
The procession occupied an hour in pass
ing and when the first section halted the
cardinal commanded silence. Then, rais
ing his hand, he shouted: “God save Ire
land.- ’ This was the signal for a fresh
roar of cheers and the crowd shouted
back. "God save Belgium!” After the
procession passed Mr O'Connor read an
address signed by Mr Redmond on behalf
of the Irish party, and Mr O'Connor, on
behalf of the Irish people, as follows:
“To all the civilized world, your coun
try. comparatively small in size and popu
lation. with an army in size, though, as
was proved not in spirit, also compara
tively small, by facing gigantic odds in
defense of your national independence,
stands forth in imperishable glory by its
courage, its endurance, its heroic faring
of great odds, its obstinate and inflexible
resolve to fight out the struggle for free
dom to the last hour. and. if need be, to
the last man.
“True culture in all the world stands
appalled and in hopeless grief at the
destruction of some of the most beautiful
and historic monuments which Belgian art
and Belgian piety have raised during cen
turies of effort.
“We as Irishmen and Irish women in
Great Britain and knowing the feeling of
our fellow-citizens of other races join our
Brit'sh fellow-citizens in the determina
tion to see that the afflictions of your
countrv shall be mitigated so far as our
good will and our resources can do so.
Every Belgian widow, every Belgian
orphan, every Belgian victim of the war
will find an' asylum and loving home in
Great Britain.”
Cardinal Mercier replied: “Ireland has
suffered for her faith and liberty more
than any other country in the world. She
can understand what pain is. but she
knows also how great are the resources of
energy, steadfastness and hope called into
being and developed in the soul of a na
tion through a spirit of self-sacrifice and
abnegation.
“Our country is laid waste, hut with
God's help we shall raise it from its mins.
I invite our countless sympathizers in
Groat Britain t<> come to Brussels.
Louvain and Malines and celebrate with
us in our restored cathedrals and munici
pal buildings the triumph of the cause of
justice, the cause of Great Britain. Ire
land. France. Russia and Belgium, which,
having sustained the first shock, will he
the foremost in celebrating the final
victory.”
Cardinal Mercier was received in
audience -Sunday by Kins George at
Buckingham palace. After his appearance
at Westminster cathedral the cardinal re
ceived several deputations, one headed by
the duke of Norfolk and the officers of
the Catholic university.
POPE TO KING GEORGE.
Pontiff Expresses Sympathy for Great
Britain—Primate of Belgium Denied
Safe Conduct.
A dispatch from Turin, according to a
dispatch from Rome, by way of Paris, at
5.10 a. m. Sunday, quoted the Stamps
as saying that Cardinal Bourne, archbishop
of Westminster, is the bearer of a letter
from the pope to King George, filled with
sympathy for the British nation, which is
described as the "guardian of peace and
master of justice.” The Stampa adds that
the pope has asked the Austrian and Prus
sian embassadors to give safe conduct for
the return of Cardinal Mercier, primate of
Belgium, to Belgium. This was refused,
whereupon the pontiff answered that he
would remember the unpleasant refusal.
ASKED AMERICAN PROTECTION.
Mayor of Ghent Appeals to Presi
dent Wilson to Help End the War.
The Independent made public last week
the text of the message in behalf of Bel
gium seat President Wilson by Maj Louis
L. Seaman, together with a message from
E. Braun, the burgomaster of Ghent, as
follows:—
"Office of the burgomaster, city of
Ghent. September 3. 1914.
“Monsieur: I have read with emotion
and at the same time with great satisfac
tion the generous and powerful appeal
that vou have addressed to the president
of the United States of America. I am
deeply grateful to yon and. in the name of
my fellow-citizens. I thank you with all
my heart. I am also glad to learn that
you have interested yourself in our Ghent
ambulances and our asylums for refugees.
I add my advice to your appeal and I beg
you to urge the president of the United
States to exert all his efforts in order that
we may soon see an end of the war and
that the inhumanity of the conflict here
may be lessened. The city of Ghent, in
which was concluded the treaty of peace
of 1814. puts itself confidently under the
high protection of the American nation.
Pray accept, monsieur, assurances of my
distinguished consideration.
“E. Braun, burgomaster of Ghent.
“M Louis L. Seaman.”
The appeal of Maj Seaman to President
Wilson to which Mr Braun refers in his
cabled message reads as follows:—
“The burgomaster of Ghent, where the
treaty of peace was signed a hundred
years ago. authorizes me to respectfully
request that in case of invasion the city
be placed under the protection of the
American flag for the safeguarding of its
people and its historic monuments. The
German government holding Brussels pre
vents the American minister from com
municating with his government. Why
should the American government permit
the German embassador at Washington
to have free communication with his gov
ernment at Berlin? Could not the United
States join with other neutral nations,
such as dtalv. Norway. Sweden. Spain,
Switzerland, Holland and the South Amer
ican republics, in demanding a cessation of
the atrocities and barbarities now being
committed by Germany? Marquet has
offered his luxurious palace hotel at Os
tend to the double white cross organiza
tion to house destitute refugees, victims of
German brutality. Lours Seaman.”
BargonißMer In Error.
Officials at Washington would not dis
cuss, the message from the burgomas
ter of Ghent, made public in New York,
but one statement in it—that the Amer
jean mipistjr at Brussels was prevented
by the German government from commun
icating with Washington—was denied.
Minister Whitlock at Brussels recently
advised the department that the Ger
man government had given him and the
Spanish minister the use of a special mil
itary wire from Brussels to Berlin. Mes
sages have been coming to the state de
partment over this wire.
The correspondent of the London Daily
Mail at Oatend telegraphs as follows:
“The American consul informs me that
the agreement whereby the Germans re
frained from entering Ghent and imposing
an indemnity was a triumph of American
diplomacy.”
ATROCITIES IN IBELGIUM.
Second Report of the Belgian Com
mission.
The British official press bureau, acting
for the Belgian legation in London, has
made public the second report of the
Belgian commission appointed to inquire
into alleged German atrocities at Louvain
and the district around Malines. This
report reviews incidents heretofore gen
erally reported, but it adds the documents
and evidence on which its consequences
rest It will be published in due course.
The commission finds that on entering
Louvain the Germans requisitioned food
and lodging. German troops took posses
sion of the cash in all the Louvain banks,
burst open houses and pillaged and com
mitted other excesses. The report then
relates with considerable detail two al
leged instances in which women were out
raged by German soldiers and asserts
that there have been instances where
women and children have been stabbed
with bayonets and their legs cut off. One
case is cited where a workman covered
with kerosene was thrown into a burning
house.
Of the burning of Louvain the report
says. “Everything tends to prove that
German regiments, through mistake, fired
at one another. At once the Germans
began bombarding the town, pretending
that civilians had fired on their troops,
a suggestion denied by all witnesses.”
To spread the fire in Louvain the report
charges that Germans entered houses and
threw hand grenades.
The commission contends that from sev
eral places in Belgium the male popula
tion has been sent to Germany and
forced to work at harvesting, as if they
were slaves.
ANOTHER LOUVAIN REPORT.
German Commander Said to Have
Discovered That Shots Were Fired
by Belgian Soldiers, Not Civilians.
In a dispatch from Copenhagen the cor
respondent of tne London Central News
says that Gen Manteuffel, the German
military commander at Louvain, Belgium,
has made an official report in which he as
serts that an investigation has shown
that it was Belgian soldiers who had
drawn on civilian attire over their uni
forms. who fired on German soldiers from
housetops of the city.
RED CROSS ON HER WAY.
Difficulties Over Make-up of Crew
Adjusted. Steamer Departs on Er
rand of Mercy.
The steamer Red Cross, bound on an
errand of mercy to the European war
zone, left her anchorage in Gravesend bay,
N. Y.. at 5.08 p. m. Sunday and shortly
before 6 o'clock was on her way to sea
past the Sandy Hook bar.
It was after many delays that the big
white ship which is conveying doctors,
nurses and supplies to the European war
field, finally put to sea on her trans
atlantic trip. Difficulties over the makeup
of her crew, due to the fear of interna
tional eomplicatio’ig had at last been
smoothed out; cvesy-mew American sea
man had learndd fife duties of his post
from his retiring ..German predecessors
and on the vessel nerself everything was
shipshape.
As the Red Cross steamed down the
bay with her red crosses gleaming in the
sunset and her flags fluttering, the
whistles of all sorts of water craft joined
in a farewell cheer. Along the rail were
massed the blue-coated nurses, forming a
solid blue band above the white of the
ship's side and the belt of red just below
her deck.
The Red .Cross carried 125 trained
nurses and 30 surgeons, and an equipment
of thousands of pounds of absorbent cot
ton. bandages, drugs and surgical instru
ments. Her first stop will he at Fal
mouth, Eng., where 24 nurses and six
surgeons will be landed for service in
English hospitals. At Rotterdam, nurses
for Austria, Germany and Russia will dis
embark, and the rest will be left at some
French port.
At Falmouth the Red Cross will be
boarded by Rear-Admiral Aaron Ward,
United States navy, retired, who will
relieve Capt Rust df the command of the
ship. Miss Mabel Boardman, head of the
American Red Cross society, left Sun
day for Manchester, to discuss with
friends there the plans of organizing Red
Cross relief work in New England.
AUSTRIA TO THE POLISH JEWS.
Warning Against the "Flattering
Promise*” of the Czar.
German newspapers which have reached
London quote the following proclamation
issued by Austria to the Jews in Po
land:—
“The heroic armies of the mid-European
states of Germany and Austria-Hungary
have entered Poland. Our flags bring jus
tice, freedom and equal rights as citizens,
religious freedom and freedom to live un
disturbed in economic and cultural life.
Too long you have suffered under the iron
yoke of Moscow. We come as friends.
The foreign barbarian yoke is gone. A
new era begins for Poland. We will use
all our strength to put it on a sure founda
tion of equal rights for the Jews.
"Do not he deluded by the flattering
promises of the czar, which already you
have heard too often. How did he keep
his word? Think of the awful banishment
of the gerat musses of Jews! Think of
the cities of Kishinev, Gomel, Bialystok
and Sedleo and their hundred of pogroms.
Now that the czar feels himself between
the hammer and the anvil he renews his
promises. Your sacred duty is to work
with us all your might for freedom.”
JAPAN JOINS AGREEMENT.
Not to Conclude Peace Without Ap
proval of the Allie*.
A dispatch received in Petrograd from
Tokio states that Japan has joined the
agreement of the allies not to conclude
peace without the consent of the allied
nations. Japan has informed Russia, the
dispatch says, that she will not make
peace with Germany until the war in Eu
rope is ended, even if Japan occupied
Kianchau before then.
The declaration was made at the foreign
office at Tokio last week that there was
no truth in the report circulated in Tokio
and elsewhere that Japan had been in ne
gotiation with Great Britain concerning
the dispatch of a Japanese army to Eu
rope
German Charge and Austrian Agent
Leave Egypt.
By invitation of the British military au
thorities, the German charge d'affairs and
ibe Austrian diplomatic agent, departed
from Egypt lasi wi vh. according to u dis
-I^4
I MORE BRITISH TROOPS
HALF A MILLION MEN VOTED
In Response to Appeal by Premier
Aaqnlth—Unprecedented Total of
1,400,000.
Premier Asquith Thursday asked the
British Parliament to add another half
million men of all ranks to the regular
army. After a short debate the premier's
motion was unanimously adopted.
The supplementary estimates, issued in
the form of a white paper, asking Parlia
ment to vote this increase, say it repre
sents the probable excess beyond the
similar increase voted August 5, which
will be required for t|ie army service.
Thia will bring the total of all ranks in
the army to the unprecedented figure for
Greet Britain of approximately 1,400.000
men. Premier Asquith said that 439.000
men, exclusive of the territorials, had
joined the army since the declaration of
war. On one day. he said, 33.240 men had
enlisted. The average enlistment in the
army in an ordinary year was 35,000
men.
In moving a resolution authorizing the
raising of an additional 500.000 men. the
premier said that the time bad not come
to relax efforts to obtain more troops.
After the reserves had been called out
there were 400.000 men with the colors.
On August 6 he proposed that an ad
ditional 500,000 be recruited, making a
total of 900,000. This suggestion was ap
proved and the recruiting was so suc
cessful that by September 9. 439.000 men
had joined, making the total under arms
only about 60,000 less than the 900,000
planned for. The second 500,000 asked for
yesterday would bring the total army
up to approximately 1.400,000 men.
Premier Asquith paid a warm tribute
to the war office organization and dealt
also with the various difficulties connected
with the rush of recruits. Measures had
been taken, he said, to meet the conges
tion. These included an allowance of
75 cents a day to those for whom no accom
modation could be found in the barracks.
If the grant were passed, he was sure that
the response would be no less keen and
ample than was that to the first levy. He
should then be in a position to put some
thing like 1.200.099 men in the field.
That was the provision of the mother
country herself, exclusive of territorials,
the national reserve and the magnifftent
contribution promised from India and the
Dominion. It was an effort worthy of a
great sacrifice. As to the expense involved,
the premier was sure that the House of
Commons would be ready to grant money as
occasion arose, but he wanted it made
clear that those showing a patriotic desire
to help the country in the present crisis
were not going to be treated in a niggardly
or unaccommodating spirit. “On the con
trary.” said Mr Asqnith, “they will be
welcome to every possible provision which
will be made for their comfort and well
being, so that they can take their place
and play their part under the best possible
conditions in that magnificent army, which,
as everyone knows who has read Field Mar
sh;.! French’s moving dispatch, has never
done its work better and never shown itself
more worthy than in the last fortnight.”
Andrew Bonar Law, leader of the opposi
tion, expressed the opposition’s cordial
support of the government’s proposals.
SOLDIERS FROM INDIA
60,000 MEN TO JOIN BRITISH
Generous Response by Native Prov
inces to the Needs of the Empire.
Lord Kitchener’s “unknown factor”
heretofore held to be a great secret, which
has so altered the situation at the front,
is now known to be the arrival of forces
from India, says a dispatch from London.
Two divisions of infantry and a brigade of
cavalry constitute these forces. A dozen
Indian potentates have been selected to
accompany this expeditionary force. These
include Sir Pertab Singh. Sir Ganga Ba
hadr, maharajah of Bikanir, and .Sir
Bhupindra Singh, maharajah of Patalia.
In the House of Commons the other
afternoon C. Roberts, one of the under
secretaries of the colonial department, read
a message from the viceroy of India, which
said that the rulers of the Indian native
states, nearly "00 in number, had with one
accord rallied to the defense of the empire
with personal offers of service, as well as
the resources of their states. One Indian
chief, 70 years of age, has demanded the
l ight to render military service along with
his nephew, a youth of 16, who is now
with the expeditionary forces. Offers of
troops, horses, money, and even jewels,
had rolled in, the viceroy said. The dalia
lama of Tibet had offered a thousand sol
diers to aid the empire, and thousands of
llamas were praying daily for the success
of the British forces and for the repose
of the souls of the dead. In addition to
men and money, some of the native rulers
of India are equipping a hospital ship.
Mr Roberts said that in addition to the
gift of the maharaja of Mysore, the
maharajas of Gwalior and Bhopal had
contributed large sums of money and
provided thousands of horses as remounts.
Maharaja Repa offered his troops and
treasure, even his privately-owned
jewelry, for the service of the king and
emperor. Maharaja Holkar of Indore
made a gift of all the horses in the army
of his state. A similar desire to help the
government was received from commit
tees representing religious, political and
social associations of all classes and
creeds. Chiefs who are at present in Eu
rope, like the gaekwar of Baroda, have
placed the whole resources of their estate
at the command of the government. The
septuagenarian maharaja mentioned by
Mr Roberts is Sir Pertab Singh.
Speaking of the expeditionary force
from India. Mr Robert* said in the House
of Commons yesterday, that it contained
besides units of the regular army contin
gents of the imperial service, troops main
tained in the larger states of India. From
12 of these states the viceroy accepted
contingents of cavalry, infantry, sappers
and transport besides a camel corps from
Bikanir. The maharajah of Mysore had
placed, he said, 50 lakhs of rupees (about
$1,600,000) at the disposal of the govern
ment in connection with the expenditure
for the expeditionary force.
. If the Indian divisions are organized on
the same basis as the British home army,
the Indian contingent will add about 60,-
000 combatants to the allied armies to
gether with approximately 130 pieces of
artillery, comprising field pieces, both light
and heavy, and howitzers.
PREMIER BOTHA’S SPEECH.
He Saye German* Have Already In
vaded the Union.
In a stirring speech to the Assembly
of the Union of South Africa Premier
Botha promised the whole-hearted support
of the Union to the imperial government
in the present war and declared that the
racial hatred had been buried, says a dis
patch from Capetown by way of London
at 1.20 p. m. Thursday. As a proof of
the Union's determination to gssist in
maintaining the integrity of the empire,
he announced that the government had
undertaken to carry through military
operations In German Southwest Africa.
"The empire is at war,” the premier de
dared,. “and consequently the Union of
South Africa is at war with the common
enemy. Thi» Assembly must realize that
South Africa’? future is being decided on
the battlefields of Europe, and although
there may be many here who in the past
have been hostile to the British flag, they
would to-day 10 times rather be under the
British than the German flag." Continuing
the premier revealed that German forces
already had entered upon Union territory.
They Were intrenched at certain points
in kopjes, and a large armed German
force was on the frontier of the Union.
The premier said also that the imperial
government had come to the financial as
sistance of the Union by lending it $35,-
000,000.
KING GEORGE TO COLONIES.
Rejoices In the Unanimity With
Which the Empire Has Risen to
Support the War.
The British official information bureau
last week gave out a message from King
George to the British colonies. It is as
follows:—
“During the past few weeks the peoples
of my whole empire at home and overseas
have moved with one mind and purpose to
confront and overthrow an unparalleled
assault upon the continuity of civilization
and the peace of mankind. The calam
itous conflict is not of my seeking. My
voice has been cast throughout on the side
of peace. My ministers earnestly strove
to allay the causes of the strife and to
appease differences with which my em
pire was not concerned. Had I stood aside,
when in defiance of pledges to which my
kingdom was a party the soil of Belgium
was violated and her cities made desolate:
when the very life of the French nation
was threatened with extinction. I should
have sacrificed my honor and given to de
struction the liberties of my empire and
of mankind. I rejoice that every part of
the empire is with me in this decision.
"Paramount regard for a treaty of faith
and the pledged word of rulers and peoples
is the common heritage of Great Britain
and of the empire. My peoples in the self
governing dominions have shown beyond
all doubt that they whole-heartedly indorse
the grave decision it was necessary to
take. My personal knowledge of the loy
alty and devotion of my oversea domin
ions had led me to expect that they would
cheerfully make the great efforts and bear
the great sacrifices which the present con
flict entails. The full measure in which
they have placed their services and re
sources at my disposal fills me with grati
tude. and I am proud to be able to show
to the world that my peoples oversea are
as determined as the people of the United
Kingdom to prosecute a just cause to a
successful end.
‘The Dominion of Canada, the common
wealth of Australia, and the dominion of
New Zealand have placed at my disposal
their naval forces, which have already
rendered good service for the empire.
Strong expeditionary forces are being pre
pared in Canada. Australia and New Zea
land for service at the front, and the
union of South Africa has released all
British troops and undertaken the impor
tant military responsibilities the discharge
of which will be of the utmost value to the
empire.
"Newfoundland has doubled the number
of its branch of the royal naval reserve
and is sending a body of men to take part
m the operations at the front. From the
Dominion and provincial governments of
Canada large and welcomed gifts of sup
plies are on their way for use both by
my naval and military forces and for the
relief of distress in the United Kingdom,
which must inevitably follow in the wake
of war. All parts of my oversea domin
ions have thus demonstrated, in the most
unmistakable manner, the fundamental
unity of the empire Amidst all its diver
sity of situation and circumstances.”
A message similar to the foregong has
been addressed by King George to the
princes and peoples of India.
IN EAST AFRICA.
German Foree Invade* British Terri
tory—Heavy Fighting Reported.
A dispatch to Reuter's telegram com
pany from Nairobi, British East Africa,
according to a dispatch from London,
at 3.17 p. m. Sunday, says a strong
force of Germans from German East
Africa crossed the border at Mohoru
and occupied Karangu and are now ad
vancing on Kisii. British forces, the cor
respondent adds, have been dispatched
from Kisampu and from Port Florence
on the northeastern shore of Lake Vic
toria Nyanza to check them.
‘The German force on the Tsaic river
is retreating and is in conflict with troops
sent from Bara and Mtoto Andei. Full
details of the fighting are not yet obtain
able. but the capture of two German of
ficers and some native troops is confirmed.
Another German officer has surrendered.
Details of last Sunday’s action also are not
yet to hand, but wounded have been brought
to Nairobi. They report that the British
were subjected to the fiercest machine-gun
fire. In a gallant, but unsuccessful, ef
fort to rush the machine guns by a bayonet
charge, the 27th Punjab regiment suf
fered somewhat heavily.”
Sharp Skirmish Take* Place in
Namaqualand.
A dispatch from Cape Town to Reuter’s
telegram company. London, says that the
4th South African mounted rifles, com
manded by Col Daetson. after two night
marches surprised the German force which
had occupied a drift 60 miles from Stein
kopf. in Namaqualand. After a sharp
skirmish the Germans were compelled to
surrender. Another Cape Town dispatch
reports that the action took place at
Ramans drift, an important strategic posi
tion.
HERBERTSHOEHE OCCUPIED.
Capital of German Bismarck Archi
pelago and Solomon Islands.
The British admiralty announced last
week that the British Pacific fleet has oc
cupied Herbertshoche, on Blanche bay, the
seat of government of the German Bis
marck archipelago and the Solomon
islands.
The Bismarck archipelago, with an
area of 18,000 square miles and a popula
tion of 200,000, is off the north coast of
Australia, and southwest of the Philip
pine islands. The group was assigned
to the German sphere of influence by an
agreement with Great Britain in 1885.
German New Guinea is included in the
jurisdiction.
Fanning Island Cable Station Report
ed Taken by German*.
Definite news has reached Vancouver,
B. C„ that the Germans have captured
the Fanning island cable station. Whether
the men who landed on the island on
Monday, the. 7th, were from the cruisers
Nurnberg or Leipsic cannot be definitely
ascertained. Communication was broken off
so suddenly with the Bamfield (Vancouver
island) end of the cable that the Fanning
island operator was able only to send a
message that armed men in uniform had
landed and had entered the superin
tendent’s office. Here the message stopped
abruptly and the cable has been silent
ever since.
QUIET IN BRUSSELS.
American Resident Say* Inhabitant*
Try Not io Antagonise Germans
Who nre Well-Behaved.
Carlisle Clark, director of the technical
school of Brussels and formerly a resident
of Lynn, arrived in London yesterday
from Ostend, says a dispatch from Lon
don at 4,55 p, m. Mr Clark declares
Brussels is very orderly. The cases, all
close up at night and no places of amuse
ment are opeu. Business is at a stand
still, and there is no delivery of mail or
telegrams in the city, nor are newspapers
published. The telephone service also has
been discontinued. The Belgians are care
ful to do nothing to provoke the German
soldiers, who are well behaved. Refugees
in Brussels from Belgian villages that
have been destroyed are being fed at soup
kitchens. The food supply in the capital
is plentiful. Mr Clark savs further that
the report that Emperor William had
visited Brussels since its occupation is
generally believed. He said he saw a
guard of honor drawn up in the place
Royale, which was said to be there to re
ceive his majesty.
GEN PERSIN COURT-MARTIALED.
Dr Philip Kdlroy Retnrns With Story
Heard In France—Local Man’s Work
tor French Army.
An "inside” army story from battle-torn
France, heretofore unpublished, to thees.
feet that a French general was shot at
the demand of Lord Kitchener, for ref us.
ing to support the English at Mons on the
day the Britishers’ swift retreat started'
three weeks ago, was brought to this city
Sunday by Dr Philip Kilroy, returning
from a month on the continent. Dr KU
roy heard the tale from French and En
glish army officers in Paris and Havre,
where he performed some service in the
hospitals and in the recruiting service, and
believes his sources of information are de,
pendable. He also brings a new picture of
life in Paris, which seems to throw some
other travelers’ tales into disrepute.
The execution of the French general
Persin, Dr Kilroy understood, took placi
a week ago Friday, after Persln had beei
relieved of his command and court-mar
tialed upon the charge of refusal to obe;
orders. The story from the court-martia
was that Gen French, commanding th<
English forces on the extreme left wins
of the western battle line, learning of th
approach of an overwhelming Germai
force on Sunday, August 23, urgently r«
quested the co-operation of Gen Persin
on his immediate right, with 60,000 Frencl
troops. Gen Joffre, the French supremt
commander, is supposed to have orderei
Persin to respond, but the English got n*
reinforcements and the retreat before th<
mass of Germans began. The next day,
according to the story, Gen Persin was re
lieved and Gen Joffre's message was fount
on his person, unopened. Lord KitchenerY
hasty and sub-rosa visit to France Is knt
into the occurrence as a trip to make »
personal demand that the penalty of deati
be given the Frenchman.
Dr Kilroy said that the London Dail*
Mail hinted at the story two days lat®
and was suppressed temporarily for ii.
The Paris Matin also heard the tale ani
was warned by the government to be
careful how they handled tt. The fact that
Gen French did not refer to Gen Persia
in his published account of the first foul
days of fighting in Belgium may be due
to a careful use of the official pruning
knife by the British.
The doctor went into Paris at a time
when a lot of American “wild geese” were
fluttering out, and paying enormous price*
for transportation, in order to get away.
Mrs Kilroy was at Paris and the doctor
went to bring her away. He found a calm
and determined city, not a city full of
disorder, fright and roving dangerous
mobs of the unemployed. He stayed three
weeks amid most interesting surrounding*
and with daily work as a hospital physi/
cian and examining officer at one of tm
French recruiting offices for foreigner
He helped to put 200 Americans of
stableman and wanderer class and seve^l
hundred Italians and Greeks into
French army. About 20,000 foreigner*all
told, enlisted under the French color
Paris, he said.
ITALIANS AT VALONA.
Force of 4000 Landed In Albatlnn
Seaport.
Troops 'of the Italian army art being
disembarked in Albania, especitlly at
Valona, according to a dispatch from
Trieste to the Echo de Paris. Recent ad
vices from Valona stated that Kiamil el
Bassan. at the head of 4000 men, hav«
threatened to sack the town.
Rumania and Italy.
It is stated in Rome, says a dispatch bi
way of Paris, that Rumania is making ad
vances to Italy for common action, towarf
Austria, and that Rumanian politicians ar
expected to arrive in Rome soon to ar
range a concrete understanding betwee;
the two countries. The radical party Tues
day passed a resolution of sympath;
with Rumania. The radicals sent greet
ings to the radical party in Rumania Tue.
day and expressed the hope that Itat
and Rumania would proceed together
“the triumph of Latin civilization.”
FIRST GERMAN WAR LOAN.
Report That It Will Be for $850,0®,-
000 at 5 Per Cent I«»ned at »T. 60
A dispatch to the Reuter telegram in*
pany, London, from Amsterdam quiet
Berlin papers as saying that they Idrul
from a reliable source that the directori of
the Imperial bank soon will publish the
terms of the first German war loan. Ift
is said that the loan will be $2. >0,000.400^
consisting of 5 per cent treasury bands
and government notes. Both will be issued
at 97.50. The loan will not be redeems
nble until 1924. The amount of the first!
issue is not stated.
The bonds and notes will be divided int<?
five section of $50,000,000 each, redeemable
at intervals of six months beginning!
October 1, 1918.
GERMAN SOCIALIST VIEW.
Economic Danger Greater Than That
of the Military Arm’s Defeat.
The Berlin Vorwaerts, the socialist ore
gan, takes a pessimistic view of the Ger
man situation so far as the economic pc
sition is concerned. “The greatest dai)
ger,” it says, “Is not that Germany maj
be defeated, but that the war will tak
a loug time. Germany’s economic dad
ger is that the English fleet will proved
the importation of cotton, silk, coppei
oil, lead, leather, rubber and other rat
materials which are necessary to the cos
tinuauce of Germany’s industrial life an
that, therefore, she will be compelled $
close her factories,
“Already the number of unemployed is
immense. If it is not possible to help
this army of starving people it will bm
eome a greater danger than that of th*
military arm’s defeat.”
Employment of Prisoner* of War.
Vorwaerts complains bitterly at the em- j
ployment of French and British prisoner*
of war on the railways and roadways of
Germany and in the fields, says a dispatch;
from Copenhagen. It says that 100,000)
workers have by this procedure been de
prived of work and that the ranks of th a
German unemployed have been increased
to that extent.
ROTHSCHILDS ARE PATRIOTIC.
London Firm Decline* to Acoep l
Money From Austrian Government.l
The Austrian government has offered h
remit money for the payment of the cod
pons of the Hungarian loan of 1914. bui
as this would involve a transaction Witt
an enemy government, the London firn
of Rothschilds have deelined to accept th*
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