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Mero Dort* i iErilmne WEATHER PM% TO-tUT A*I> TOUOitBOWi *oktkw?*t wi*ns. ??Ch. ?It Lew, M. #?? nptrt ?i Pa?? ft. Vol LXXIV....XO. 24,791. ? ?P.trltht. lit?. B.? Th* Irll.unf AMxx-latton. NEW YORK, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 1. lilt ? * ? PRICE ONE CENTto^*n,^H^^?^ Germans Prepare to Retreat on Right; Centre Holds; Invaders Bombard Antwerp; American Copper in Dutch Ships Seized BELGIANS, RALLYING, BEAT GERMANS BACK AND RETAKE MALINES Kaiser's Forces, Renewing Bombardment of Lierre, Shell Church and Convent ?Four Women Among Wounded. ATTACK BEGUN ON ANTWERP FORTS Outer Ring of City's Defences Under Heavy Fire, with Foe Bringing Up Batteries of Siege Guns. London? Sept 30.?"Malines has been reoccupied by the Belgians/' says the Antwerp correspondent of Reuter's Telegram Company. His dispatch continues: 'The German* to-day renewed the bombardment of Lierre (a manufacturing town nine miles southeast of Antwerp) and Hey?t-Op-Den-Berg (a town near Lierre). In Lierre the tower of the Church of St. Gommarius, the Convent of the Blanc Sisters and tome houses have been struck by shells and four women have been wounded. Most of this district has been completely deserted by the civilian population. Jlic Church of St. Gommarius, one of the finest late-Gothic in Belgium, was begun in 14J5 and completed in 1527. it was restored. Thrfe of its fine stained gla^x windows ted by the Emperor Maximilian. The Germans have begun an attack on the outer forts of Antwerp. For two days they have been shelling frrts Waelhem sad Wavre-St Catherine, which cover the road from Malines to Antwerp. Behind Waelhem are the waterworks that supply Ant? werp, but even the destruction of these would not be fatal to the fortress, as a good supply of water has been provided for from other sources. OFFICIAL REPORTS DIFFER. Concerning the progress of this attack, the official reports g?re widely different accounts. The Belgians say that the German attempts to advance have been repulsed and that their shells have had no effect on the forts. On their part the Germans declare that the Belgian sorties have been driven back. It probably will he some days yet before the Germans bring the full force of their ?rtillery to bear, and not until then can it be judged whether the forts can stand the fire of the big modern siege guns. An official statement issued by the Belgian General Staff at Antwerp to-day says: "A vigorous German bombardment of forts Waelhem, Wavre fed St Catherine, which was continued throughout the night, ?bated at 8 o'clock this morning. The assailants did not succeed ?a silencing the guns of the Belgian forts nor in any way lowering 'he morale of the garrisons of the forts. 44At no point did the German infantry dare to move against our first lines of defence. Only one attempt was directed against forts Liezele and Breedonk. Our troops, holding positions between these works, allowed the enemy to advance until they were within dose range, when the artillery and infantry, working in a remark? able combination, showered the attacking column with a hail of projectiles and bullets, which threw their ranks into disorder and compelled a precipitate retreat. BELGIANS RETAIN CONFIDENCE. "This attempt cost the Germans dearly and was not repeated. In short, the events of the day confirm the confidence of Belgians <n the power of resistance of their national redoubt" A Reuter dispatch from Amsterdam says that the "Telegraaf" hu received this message from Antwerp : "From various points the garrison made sorties and repulsed Ae Germans, with heavy losses. The bombardment of forts Wselhe mand St. Catherine by the Germans continues. A single ?Hack has been delivered by the Germans on forts Liezele and fceedonk." A Central News dispatch from Antwerp says: "The Germans bombarded Alost and set the town afire. Fierce fighting is raging st various points along the whole line." The Ghent, Belgium, correspondent of 'The Daily News," ? ? dispatch dated Monday, asserts that by order of the military ?"thorites Alost was completely evacuated by the civilian popu? lation before the Germans took possession of the place on Monday. ALOST A VAST SEPULCHRE. "When the Germans entered Alost to-day it was as quiet as ? ?epulchre," says the dispatch. "The German advance guard ?Ottnd the doors of all the houses open, all food in the larders ready te be eaten, all wine ready to be drunk?everything that tho army COttW desire to satisfy its wants?but the occupants of the houses **re musing. "Imperative orders came Sunday night for every person in tost and surrounding villages to leave on Monday morning for *??? To-day as far as the eye could see the broad highway CoBttaord un p??e 2. coJuir.? 4 GERMANY SAYS MILLION HAVE VOLUNTEERED [By oabl? to The Tribu?., l Bern?, Sept. 30.?II in asserted by Germany that 1,000,000 men hsvt volunteered for service in the army. Some of the men are very old, and that ?ome serving in the ranks are almost children is proved bv the "Berliner Tageblatt" of September 25, which proudly notes the pres? ence in the 3d Regiment of Foot guards of a boy fourteen and a half I years old. KAISER'S ORDER, "CRUSH : CONTEMPTIBLE ENGLISH" London, Oct. I.?"The Times to-day says that it Is able to give from a thor? oughly trustworthy source the text of an order issued by Emperor William to his army on August 11?. It follows: "It is my royal and imperial com? mand that you concentrate your en? ergies for the immediate present upon one single purpose, and that is that you address all vnur skill and all the valor i?f my soldiers to exterminate first the treacherous English and walk over Gen? eral French's contemptible little army." RUMANIANS DEAF TO PLEA OF KING - _j_ Charles, Who Wished to| Aid Kaiser, Rebuffed by His Cabinet. London. Sept 30. -The Rome eorre bpondent of the Excnange Telegraph Company reports that a message re? ceived at Rome from Bucharest says that King Charles has summoned the j Cabinet in special session ??-morrow to decide the attitude of Rumania toward the war. Paris-, Sept. I'.O. - According to a Bucharest dispatch publihhed in "Le Journal des D?bats," Germany count? ed on the intervention of Rumania, lut when King Charles asked the Cabinet to order a mobilization of the army one of the Ministers replied: "We are quite willing if it is against Austria." King Chati*! turned to him and said: "I gave my word to Emperor William, and a Hohenzollern keeps his word." J. J. C. Bratiano, the President of the Council, here interposed, saying: "The country knowc no Hohenzollern. it knows only the King of Rumania, who does not have to give hia word to any one whatsoever." King Chariot then decided to call a Council of the Crown, with the former Ministers in attendance, but only one sided with him in favor of Germany. It is then reported that the King ap? plied to General Averesca to trv a coup d'etat and arrest the Ministers, hut he refuted, saying: "Sire, you will be the first victim " It is also said that some superior officers declared they vould desert and join the Russian army rather than tight for Austria. ? GOSCHEN DISMISSED HIS GERMAN COOK "Lokalanzeiger" Says Her Dis- ( missal Proves England Wanted War. By J. VAN HER BRUNA. (Special Correepondent of The N?"r Tork Tribune und "London t?tanoar'J " 1 Amsterdam, Sept 30. The Berlin "Lokalanzeiger" has published an edi? torial on the causes of the war, in which it offers as proof of England's culpability the discharge of Sir Edward Goschen's cook. The "Lokalanreigcr "As incontestable proof that England wanted war all time the time and was secretly preparing for it long before i the crisis occurred may be cited the fact that the British Ambassador du- ? missed his female German cook on July 30, five days before war was declared, i while telephonic and other negotiations ) were being conducted between Sir hd- : ward Grey and Ambassador Lichnowsky ! and whil<? England pretended to the outside -.vor^d that she was interested in the preservation of peace "The British Ambassador in Berlin evidently was quite dear about it all ending in hostilities, as is evidenced by the fact in connection with the dis? charging of his cook, above mentioned. We only regret that five valuable i days. i. e., from the moment the cook , ! was dismissed until the moment of the declaration of war, were lost in futile pourparlers. The famous cook has now become a great historic personality constituting, as ?he does, the most im portant landmark in the history of th* world." ? _ RUSSIAN INSTITUTE GETS KAISER'S STUD London, Sept. 10.?A dispatch to "The Star" from Petrograd says that among the remarkable war trophies a.riving at Smolensk is the entire stock of Emperor William's famous pedigreed cattle and stud h 'raes capt? ured by the Russians frcm the Em- ' pcror's estate at Rominten, in Kbit I'russia. They were taken to Moscow ".rd presented to the Russian Agri- j cultural Instituto for distribution toj agricultural breeding associations. J CZAR PUSHES GERMANSBACK ON FRONTIER invaders in Retreat After Vain Attempt to Cross the Niemen. FLANK ATTACKED BY THE RUSSIANS Enemy Evidently Prepar? ing for Active Opera? tions in Silesia. TO TREAT CRACOW SAME AS PRZEMYSL Muscovites Purpose to Mask the Fortress and Continue Westward March. I By Cabio to Tho Tribune. 1 Petrograd, Sept. 30. -West of Grodno lies the big pine forest of Autustovo, twenty-four miles long and thirty-five miles broad, intersected by a canal connecting the River Niemen with tho River Vistula, and studded with islands. Through this comfortless for? est in rainy, chilly and sloppy weather : the Germans, who the other day tried ! to force a passage of the Niemen ' northwest of Terodno are ' retiring, while the Russians are advancing, at? tacking the Germuns on the flank, ap? parently with the object of cutting their communications. A little further south the German* are making a frontal attack on the small fortress of Asvurec, which com? mands the only negotiable passage across the swampy Biebrz. So far the attack has proved unsuccessful at this point also. The attempted German advance in a Fouthwesterly direc1 on has been checked, but still further south, in > Silesia, along the frontier of the Pet rokoff and Kalisch governments, in Po? land, the Germans are greatly strengthening their forces, and, ac? cording to a Russian official statement, are preparing for active operations. In all this curious shuffling, this hurried spade work, these marches and counter-marches of the Germans along the Polish frontier, a certain plan is becoming dimly visible. The German and Austrian armies together consti tute one big army extending from Galicia to the Baltic and connected through Cracow. The left flank of f this army in Galicia is crumbling under the unceasing blows of the Russian battering rams, and the Germans are apparently trying to neutralize the ef? fect of tlla" Rassiaa advance from the southeast by a turning movement on the Russian rltfht to the north of War? saw. So far this attempt has failed, and the reported preparations for ad? vance in SttesU may be intended to create a diversion with the object of facilitating the more northerly move? ment In Galicia the Russians havo been taking fortresses and fortified positions literally In their stride, while tho Aus tro-German forces have consistently failed to utilize to the utmost the chances offered by possession of these i fortified lines. In Russia there is a disposition to attribute this failure to the presence of Germans with the Aus? trian forces. The latter everywhere have fought with a steady bravery that ha? cost Russians dear, and, like all Continued on pave ?. column 1 ENGLAND AND U.SJNDISPUTE OVER CARGOES Senate Asks Why Copper Shipped to Holland Is Held by British. BRYAN AT ODDS WITH SPRING-RICE Secretary Opposes View That Such Shipments Can Be Seized. LONDON SURE METAL IS MEANT FOR KRUPP Holds, Therefore, That Deten tlon of Dutch Ships Is Legal ?New Precedents Likely. (From Th* Trib?ne Hureau.J Washington, Sept. 30.?The relations of the United States and Great Britain at this time are in a stage which, while they may not be called critical, ?re causing some anxiety among adminis? tration officials. The condition is due to the attitude of Great Britain on the bhipment of copper in American bot? toms by way of Rotterdam. It was reportad, heie that two vei- j veis wer? held, the Rotterdam and the Potsdam, and that the Rotterdam was allowed to leave Plymouth after dis? charging all the copper in her cargo. Great Fritnin is convinced that American coppe- shipped to Rotterdam in neutral bottoms is intended for the Krupps, ar;d by ti em is to be used in the manufacture of cannon and projec? tiles for the German army. The Brit? ish government has explained to the Americap Ambassador, Mr. 1'uge, that it cannot permit copper shipments con? signed to Holland to pass without con? fiscation when the opportunity to con? fiscate comes within the power of the British authorities. Sir Edward Grey has pointed out to ! the American Ambassador that Eng? land did not. sign the so-called Decla? ration of London, Article 35 of which declares that "conditional contraband is not liable to capture, except when found on board a vessel bound for ter? ritory belonging to or occupied by the cnemj, etc.," and that, therefore, Eng? land does not feel herself bound by that article. The so-called "conditional contra? band" includes such articles as food? stuff:, forage, grain, etc., clothing, boots, shoes, gold and silver coin, bullion, powder, explosives, etc. It is, however, the shipments of copper to I whkh Great Britain is particularly averse, and that government is so be? cause its military intelligence depart? ment has informed it that tha copper consigned to Rotterdam is designed for the use of the Krupps In the manu? facture of arms and ammunition to bo used against British soldiers. Bag land has, accordingly, informed the De? partment of State that she will con? sider herself at liberty to confiscate such shipments wherever they are dis? covered. Following the representations of the british Foreign Office to the American Ambassador, Secretary Bryan gave evidence of a disposition to oppose the I'ritish contention and to maintain that shipments by Americans of conditional contraband to neutral ports must not be interfered with. A? if to strengthen the position of Secretary Eryan, the International Metals helling Company, of New York, ( ontinued oa page t. column ? AUSTRO-GERMANS ARE VICTORIOUS, ARCHDUKE FREDERICK TELLS ARMY Vienna, Sept. 3ft.?Archduke Frederick of Austria, commander in chief of the Austrian army, issued to-day the frllowing army order: "The situation of the Germans and Austrian? is favorable. The Russian offensive is beginning to break down. We, with the German troops, shall beat again the enemy already beaten at Krasnik, Zamosc (both towns of Rus? sian Poland), Inaierburg and Tannenburg. (The laat two places named are in East Prussia.) "The German main army, without hindrance, has penetrated deep into France, where a new and great victory in Imminent. "In the Balkan theatre we are fighting in the enemy's territory. The Servian r?sistance is beginning to weaken. "Internal dUsatlsfaction, insurrections and lack of food threaten our enemy in ihe rear, while the Dual Monarchy and Germany are united, and have full confidence of fighting out to the end thia war which was forced upon us. ?This is the truth about the situation. ?This proclamation most be made known to all oflWrs and men in their respective mother tongue. ARCHDlKE FREDF.RK K. DEATH FOR OFFICERS SUSPECTED OF TREASON Venice (via Paris), Sept. 30.? The raptain and all the officers of the Austrian steamer Radium, char? tered to carry coal for the Austrian navy, have been arrested and sum? marily shot at ( autclnuovo, Dal? matia, on suspicion that they were selling information to French war? ships regarding the position of minea in the Adriatic. SWITZERLAND LOSES ENGLISH PAPERS JBy Cable to Th? T.tbune.) London, Sept 30.- A member of the American Relief Committee here re? ceived to-day a letter from an Ameri? can in Lugano asserting that English papen are being suppressed in Switzerland, but by order of whom no one seems to know. It is suspected that some German news venders have received word from German authori? ties to hold up all English papers, if possible, and there has been a dearth of English papers since September 7. The letter says that two German news vender? in Lugano who used to nell English papers never have any now. austmnIunes arouse italians More Disasters in Adriatic Lead to Protest at Vienna. [By Cab!? to Tho Tribune.', Rome, Sept. 30. -Floating mine ac? cidents in the Adriatic culminated in great indignation against Austria to? day when news was received here of the blowing up of a fishing boat with all its crew of nine ?near Rimini, Italy, closely followed by a hitherto uncon? firmed report that an Italian torpedo boat has been sunk by one of these ' Austrian devices between Venice and Comacchio. Floating mines in the Adriatic, ac? cording to the announcement made to ??ay, have ulrcady caused nineteen deaths. It is recalled that at the time of the : Italo-Turkish war Austria protested became a flotilla of torpedo boats, un- ' der command of the Duko of the Abruzzi, approached th3 eastern coast of the Adriatic. The situation has lod the govern? ment to telegraph ur;;?nt instructions to the Duke d'Avarna. the ambassa? dor at Vienna, charging him to draw the attention of Austria to the fact that loss of both life and property has resulted from the appearance on the ; Italian coast of floating mines which must have proceeded from Istria and ' Dalmatia, and to ask that adequate measures be taken to prevent the re- ; currence of incidents of such gravity, j Admiral Viale, the Minister of Ma- ' rinu, has been informed that Austrian ! mines arc floating hither and thither in the Adriatic and that in consequence the suspension has had to be ordered of all mail steamers and general navi? gation until a flotilla of Italian mine dredgers actually at work have fr^ed passenger trade routes from these dan? gers. No fewer than five of these mines have been fished up near Pesaro. Experts found them to be exception? ally destructive. Details of the fishing boat disaster off Rimini show that the fishermen mis the mine for a wine cask, which ought to recover. Throwing out a line, they drew the supposed cask tuward them, and when it touched their craft an explosion occurred. The boat was blown to pieces, and all the nine men on board were killed. Members of other fishing crews in the vicinity were wounded by (lying splinters from the unfortunate fisherman. Naval experts express the opinion that hundreds of mines from the Aus? trian coast arc tluuting toward Italy, and a3 a consequence all steamship lines operating to Dalmatia. Montene- ? gro, Albania and Greece from Italian '' i ave suspended sailings. Ships which have been operating between Italy and Constantinople and other Black Sea ports have limited their trips to stops at Salonika and Dedeaghatch. Seafaring interests demand that the government require prompt and thor? ough satisfaction from Austria. Meetings were held to-day by the various Italian Parliamentary groups to discuss the general situation. Reso? lutions were passed at all the gather? ing* substantially approving the atti? tude of the govern lient on condition that its neutrality snail mean the sure protection of Italian interests. Venice (via Paris i, Sept. 30.?The Rumanian sailing ship Maria struck an Austrian mine and sank off Istria, in the Adriatic, Monday. Only one of the crew was saved. RENAMES HIS PAPER AND EVADES CENSOR Toulouse, Sept. 30.?Former Premier George.-i Clemenceau has succeeded in evading the suspension order against his newspaper, "L'Homme Lien changing the name to "L'Hommo En? cha?n?" (The Man in Chains). The paper was published as usual to? day. FRENCH SWING BOTH WINGS OF ENEMY IN TOWARD ITS CENTRE Part of General von Kluck's Force Re* ported Cut Off and Trapped in Quarries at Lassigny. BOTH MIDDLE ARMIES STAND FAST Military Observers Forecast Line of Retreat Through Rethe!?Official Communications Make Con? servative Claims Concerning Battle. London, Oct. 1, 3:25 A. M.?A Rotterdam dispatch to 'Th? Daily News" says: "Dispatches from the south indicate that preparations for the retreat of the German right have already begun. German troops have been observed coming from the north of France tow? ard Tournai and Mons, prepared to cover the main army in case of retreat." Mons, which was General von Kluck's headquarters, was re? ported in flames on Tuesday. To-day's message received from Flanders states that the Germans have fired part of Tournai, de? manded a war fine of two million francs and taken notables of the town as hostages. A dispatch from Ghent to "The Daily Express," dated Wednesday, declares that the Germans have built five heavy pon? toon bridges across tie "River Meuse between Givet and Namur, apparently for the purpose of facilitating their retirement from France. All their wounded, the dispatch says, have been removed from Brussels. Paris, Sept 30.?Dispatches from the battle front on this, th? nineteenth day of continued desperate fighting along the 150-mile front from the Somme to the Moselle, add sufficient to the some? what meagre official reporta to indicate that the Germans are re? ceding before a sustained pushing from the allied armies, especially on the eastern and western wings. The centre, where the Germana are most strongly intrenched with heavy artillery, remains almost stationary. To-night's official announcement, which follows, conspicu? ously avoids mention of the fighting on the allied left : "The general situation is satisfactory. There has been no change of any account on the front, except to the south of thei Woevre, where we have occupied Seicheprey and advanced as far as the slopes to Rupt de Mad." FLANKING MOVEMENT CONTINUES. This afternoon's communication, confirming in considerable measure the more optimistic statements of the unofficial dispatches, says: "First?On our left wing, north of the Somme, the action continues to develop rapidly more and more toward the north. Between the Oise and the Aisne the enemy has delivered a vigorous attack on Tracy-le-Mont. To the northeast of the Forest of Aigue the Germans have been repulsed, with heavy losses. "Second?On the centre there is relative calm along the en? tire front, which extends from Rheims to the Meuse. Between the Argonne and the Meuse we have made slight progress. "In the Woevre district there have been severe battles. Our troops have advanced at several points, notably to the east off Saint-Mihiel. "On our right wing, in Lorraine and the Vosges, there has been no change." GERMAN WINGS FOLDING BACK. It is generally concluded by French military men that some important move must soon be made by the Germans, who have found it impossible to stem the advance of the Allies, though they opposed the sternest and most desperate resistance, sacrificing thousands of men daily. The German wings appear as though folding back on Use centre, leaving the sole loophole for a backward movement by way of Rethel. The Germans' main supply base at Junuille, which is protected by heavy masses of troops, as it is absolutely essential that this place should be held for the revictualling of the German armies in northeastern France, appears to be placed in a precarious situation with its single line of railroad. The official report that the action continues to develop to th? northward indicates that the French left must now be pushing toward Cambrai, as yesterday it was in the neighborhood off Albert. FRENCH FAR TO. NORTH. Even further north than this the mnclrtsfCatry are -operating, and last week a German force ?jCth was sent to Orchies, sixteen miles southeast of L?le, to purj^ranc-tireurs for an alleged at? tack on a German hospital at that place, met with superior forcea and had to fall back. The Germans, too, in their official report received here? ?A*^