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$& i 1 nKRr ?Yr 4Pi 1EMBERGIN CHAOS AS RUSSIANS TARE GALIGIAN CAPITAL l Austrlans, Civil and Mili tary, in Pell-mell Panic, Offer Scant Resistance. People's Pathetic Plight. TBTnoaRAD, Sept 80. A prnplilc story of tlio full of lumbers, Galtcla, Anit the acencs attenctlns tho Ittisslnn occupation of tho city, hug Just teen (riven to me by an KngHnhmun who liaa arrived here after witnessing those historic event. "I nm ntt enKlner," said he, "and with ft friend of the same callltiB had business In Lembonr. Vp wcro not molested In any way until about a week before tho arrival of the Itusslans. nhen wo wero suddenly snt for by the Austrian police, placed under arrest and conveyed to prison. Simultaneously all our money was confiscated. "Wo were lept In cells for four or flvo days, durlns 'which tlmo absolutely no food was fjlven us. Fortunately we re eelved a small portion of drinking water each day or the 'hunger strike' wouia have been as complete as any undergone by suffragettes In tho London Jails. On the fourth or fifth day wo were released, but we wero both so weak from lack of food that wo could hardly stand. "Just about the tlmo we wore released word was received that the Russians wero advancing upon tho city, and panic broko out. The entire Austrian administration fled precipitately. NO DEFENSE ATTEMPTED. "Defense of tho city was not attempted at all. Tho Russians gave tho demoral ised Austrian military- authorities three days In which to surrender and evacuate tho place so that tho Inhabitants would be spared the horrors of a bombardment. 'On the third day a Russian aeroplane made Its appearance over the city watch ing for the Austrlans' departure. The Austrlans fired upon the aeroplane, but It returned apparently uninjured to tho Russian lines. "Then the Invaders made some show of opening a bombardment. I should say It was only a feint: at any rate, no shells seemed to fall In the city. Surely tho Russian gunners were not such bad marksmen as all that, i "The noise of the Russian artillery was terrific, and It scared tho already panic stricken townspeople almost Into hyster ics. Thirty-five thousand persons. Home of them residents of Lomberg, and others refugees from the surrounding country, bolted helter-skelter. The large Jewish population of Lembcrg was particularly frightened, as the Austrlans had sys tematically circulated shorles that the Russians would massacre the Jews. "Families carrying a few of their most raluable possessions fled pell-mell along the road. Some had the advantage of horse cirts, and a few had automobiles. Weeping children, surrounded by their traiful mothers, rushed about wild-eyed with fear. Aged men and women, too old for hasty flight, were Jostled by tho younger refugees In the fright-filled mob. ''Rankers made their escape with all the money belonging to other people, and even the savings boxes of the poor were broken open and tho money taken. "Nobody was allowed to leave by train for Vienna unless he or she could de posit at the railway station the sum of MOO kronen, which was 'to be returned when tho depositor reached the capital.' The reason advanced for this decision upon the part of the authorities was that the money was required as security for the ability of tho Invading traveler to meet the enormously Increased cost of living in Vienna. Those seeking to go to Budapest were compelled to deposit 1000 kronen. The cost of living there did not seem to bo so high. PITIFUL STREET SIGHTS. "There were pitiful sights In the streets, notably the spectacle of Austrian soldiers, with woundeil bodies, hatlcss, shoeless, and In rage, begging a crust of bread. "Numbers of them belonging to tho Slavonic race got Into civilian clothing and wcro to be seen carrying their uni forms under their arms In bundles. They ild they were going to burn them. "The utter disorganization of the Aus trlan military administration and the s'alo of chaos Into which tho Austrian war commissariat degenerated are be neath criticism. The Austrian army Itself proved to be disunited and an unwilling mass of men that fell apart In the fnco of danger. Many of them were only too Klad to throw down their arms and sur render When taken prisoner they fra ternized like brothers with the Russians. "The Russian army entered Iiemberg In splendid condition. It was attended by an enormous provision train, with every requisite In abundance. The inhabitants, especially tho Ruthenlan Slavs, met tho t'zar's soldiers with dcmonstrotlons of delight. The Russian officers were show ered with flowers and men and women kissed their hands "Exemplary order was Immediately es tablished by the Russians, soldiers being used for police duty. The Russian com mander visited the City Hall and de clared that he wished to co-operate with the local authorities. This system proved so efficacious that the Chlff Deputy went to the Russian commander and thanked him. "We ourselves were well treated by the Russians, who lent us money and enabled us to travel to this city. We made the Journey free of nil expense, first class, with a party of Russian ofllccrs. We ere told that we would not be expected to pay for anything, and the Russians were offended when we tried." 100.000 ENGLISH HOMES OPENED TO BELGIANS Hospitable Offers to Refugees Far Exceed Necessity, LONDON, Sept. 30.-So many offers nave been received from hospitable Eng lish families who want to shelter Hel Jlan refugees that the Relief Committee today had to send out circular letters stating that no further offers could be considered. Iord Gladstone, former Governor Gen eral of South Africa, who Is the leader lli. ,e r'Uc' work, stated today that IW.OOO English families so far have offered 10 Provide homes for the refugees. Mx thousand Belgians already have ln Paced I" Private homes, while about I W more are In depots awaiting dlstrl- uutlon. About MOO others are scattered i'.' '""" ana boarding houses, the . nllh Government having guaranteed There are 1J committees In London working for the relief of tho Belgians. m. r t comnlttees are being formed llrouuhout th Ul.n,l kt.-.i.. inn ....... oi clothing and other supplies have been -v...v jvr me us a or me refugees. EVENING LBDGBB-PHIL'APELPHlAWEPNBjiPAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1914- ( pM- ' - i i- - i . i i i i n-n r I II I ' ! --" j i - KAISER FREQUENTLY RELAXES FROM ROLE OF STERN WAR LORD German Emperor's School boy Spirit Prompts' Him to Act and Speak Indiscreetly, Governess Writes. LONDON, Sept. 30. A pen picture of Kaiser Wllhclm Is contained In a book of memoirs Just pub lished by Miss Anne Tophntn, who for some years acted as English governess to the Kaiser's daughter. Tho "recollec tions" of Miss Topham contain, besI'Us Its pictures of the Kaiser himself, n num ber of Interesting stories of tho Kaiser's court. From the numerous stories and Inci dents In the book In which His Majesty figures It li possible to reconstruct ft very graphic and by no means unattrac- FRENCH CAVALRY CROSSING PONTOON BRIDGE ERECTED BY FRENCH ENGINEERS TDRPINITE COULD DESTROY NATIONS, EDITOR BELIEVES Deadly Gas-filled Shells Will Not Be Used Until Germans Storm Paris, He Thinks. LONDON, Sept. 30. W hcther the French are really using turplnlte, the newest war terror reported to be In possession of England's ally, is a matter of great speculation In Eng land. This new explosive, which has aroused the greatest discussion through out the world, Is declared to be so deadly In Its effect that all life Is exterminated within a radius of 400 yurds of one of tho exploding shells. Regiments of Ger mans nro reported to have been found dead In their trenches, their rifles still In their hands, not a mark on their bodies, but with the long line of corpses standing as though In life. The Dally Express declares that a man known to the editor for years, and who Is generally well Informed, has written as follows concerning turplnlte: "The new explosive, Invented two years ngo by M. Turpln, tho 'parent' Inventor of melinite and lyddite. Is undoubtedly the most terrific and most widely death dealing high-power explosive ever known. So lethal In Its effect Is the now shell on explosion that should Its -use become widespread whole armies. Indeed entire nations, would be completely exterminated In tho course of a few weeks. For this reason Its use is probably prohibited by articles of wnr, by tho international Hugue convention, though M. Turpln him self boldly claims this Is not tho case." After telling of M. Turpln's dislike of the French War Offlco and his grievance folowlng the Government's acceptance of melinite and lyddite, the Informant of the Express tells how Turpln set to work upon a new explosive, which ho endeav ored to perfect, so that, as compared to It, melinite and lyddite would bo prac tically useless. He worked for years, had a gun made himself, the parts being con structed at different points and then assembled, and directed the making of the shells. "The merest chance enabled me to wit ness one of the early trials of tho new explosive," the writer continues. "On a stretch of sand 500 yards from high water level, a temporary sheep fold had been erected, about 400 yards square, unit I ailed off with wooden hurdles. In this space were a dozen sheep nnd a couple of aged and worn-out horses. "Ono of the horses was contentedly munching away at somo hay and the other was rubbing himself against one of the hurdles, while the sheep were huddled together In ono corner. "This was what I saw through my glasses when from a ridge some 2M0 yards away there came a sharp, loud thud and the s'lrleklng sound of a small shell. Just as though somebody had taken a piece of silk and rapidly torn It In two, "There was an explosion In the open spoco In the middle of the improvised sheep-pen. The sheep were still huddled In the corner, one of the old horses was apparently leaning up against the rail ing. The ono that had been munching hay lay on his side. "When ten minutes later I reached the pen tho sheep looked for all tho world as If they had been petrified. They went mostly standing up, one against the other. "Three or four were lying down, but all were dead, wth their eyes open and lips hanging. It was absolutely ghastly. Vet all of the animals, only the old horse that had been munching hay, was hit by a fragment of shell. The other horse was half fulling, half leaning agulnst tho fence, his forelegs stretched nut forward, his hind feet doubled up on the sand beneath him. Both had been killed Instantly. "There was a faint odor in the air, which I can only describe as that glnu oft by methylated spirit, yet mixed with a pungent smell of methol. Later the experiments were repeated on a much larger scale at the French permanent camps of Chalons and Mallly. "For special reasons which It would be unfair for me to dlvulgo at the present moment, I nm strongly of tho opinion that these shells havo not been usrd to any eitont by the French armies In thn field. I'rnbably an actual test under buttle con ditions has been made once or twice, but mi more. "That this terrific explosive will, how ever, be used In case of such an eventu ality as an attempt to take Paris by btorm. I have no doubt. But I am con inced, despite the thousands of bombs now prepared and the special apparatus that are being cast, this explosive, a sin gle uG-pound shell of which Is able to kill so to speak 'petrify' every living thing In n space of 4W square yards, will not be used unless under very despcnite circumstances, and only with the full con tent of Franco's allies." EMDEN EXPECTS CAPTURE But Kaiser's Nephew Bays Raider Will "Make a Run." LONDON, Sept. 30. An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Colombo today stated that a nephew of Kaiser Wllhelm on board the German cruiser Emden told the captain of a captured ship that he expected the En. den would be captured. "But we'll make a inn forlt," lie added confidently MINOR TERRORS OF WAR; ITS COMEDY AND PATHOS it n..fit nt 4hA ruler of uermani. alike In his function of monarch and his rolo of husband and parent. The "papa" of tlio Princess is very much the Knlser of high politics, alter nately gushing and ferocious, always cocksure, and continually doing Indis creet things. Everybody around him Is kept ever on the move, or ready to bo on the move next moment; everyone with whom he comes Into contact Is expected to be as Interested In everything as he Is himself. His son, the Crown Prince, Is not more typically the tactless, hustling, grandiose yet childlike, earnest but superficial llohcnaollern than Is the Kaiser. All things are plain to him, not excepting tho mysterious ways of Providence; all ex cepting the suffragettes. He admits that he does not understand them. Why, In heaven's name, do women want the voto? he nsks. and he threaten ed one charming suffragist whom he met at Kiel, and who promised n suffragist Invasion of Berlin, thnt If tho I'nnkhurst Boctlon went to Germany, he would give iham much worse than two days' deten tion In Holloway with nowspnpers to read nnd flowers to decornte their celK The Kalcor Is not an nltogfther dis agreeable person. Far from It. More than once he hns paid tribute to the beauty and attraction of the English countiyslde; he hat a poem of Kipling framed nnd hung In his room, his favor ite book ns n. boy was 'Frank Fnlrlegh f lib likes Dickens; ho buys his horses in England or Irelnnd; ho sends to London for his ten: ho worahlps Reynolds and O.ilnsboroUgh and Nelson, Tho Prussian spirit peeps out every wheie If we look nt Wllhelm II closely, despite tho European (or English) floss of gentlcmanllncss. When Queen Alex andria nnd thu Ocrman Empresi were driven In Berlin the horses of their car rlage were frightened by n salute of guns. The master of tho horse was pa tented subsequently by the Knlser to King Edward, who already knew the of ficial very well. "Here's the man who inndis such n fearful bungle (Hat Slcll Blamlrt) with his horses," said tlm Kalicr, In presenting his humble servant. The significance of Instances like this cannot be exaggerated They are of es sential Imrbirlstn not of civilized Lurope. That the Knlser "means nothing" by I horn rwlds to their significance. The schoolhoylsh side of the Kaiser, al though It may nt times embarrass need lessly the solemn nnd deserving person, rne condemns less severely. Indeed, It Is possible to be pleased by tome of Miss Topham's storyettei of tho mutual mis chief of the Knlser and his daughter, one day tho Princes'? shocked her gov Uliss by making the "pop" of a cham pagne eoik with her lips and cheeks, nnd then Imitating thr guigle of the wine us It runs Into a glass. "Whoever taught ou the?o untndyllkf niTomplishmcnts''" nsked the governess. "M-s-sh' It was Pnpa'" raran the gleeful answer. "Ho cm do It Bplemildly." And she gurgled agnin In thr hope of development by long prnctle a tab-nt equal to his A distinguished prisoner In Hungary Is a Russian general, Eugelio Mustlnoff. General MnstlnolT still looks quite defiant, although he hns grown a shade mure modest since ho wns taken prisoner. When brought Into the prison camp, ha asked, thtough an Interpteter, for tho com mander. Colonel Alfred von Obiiuer com piled with the request, and, with tho courtesy charncteilstlc of officers, pre 'sonted himself to the Russian gencrnl. Tho caged Russian llou wus luetics enough to icmnln seated. Colonel Obuuer then commanded. In n firm but qulot tone: "Attention 1" whereupon the gen eral found It advisable to show, by rlsln-; stiffly to his height, that ho took the les son In military discipline. A correspondent of a Vienna paper thus describes a war-prison scene In Hungary, between Eatoigom (Gran) nnd Konyermezo: "You find there next to Fionchmen, with their well-c.ircd-for complexions, Russian officers, with effeminate features nnd red-fneed, weather-beaten .Servian officers. Beside flaxen-haired Cossacks there nro four fellows with coal black heads negroes from tho coal mines of CardlfT, who were seized on British mer chant ships. Servian gypsies from Slm bats complete tho picture. In tho ccntic of the clicle there Is a grindstone, on which a Cossack dutifully nnd humbly sharpens, for one of our infantry soldiers, a bayonet, which is to do service ng.iinst the northe'rn foe. All around nro giouped Servians nnd Montenegrins, who look on, with ill-concealed anger, whllo their hoped-for deliverer serves the yon of tho Pusztn. Now there approaches the group an elegant figure Captain Gcony, of the Royal Yeomanry, whom England's decla ration of war surprised In Hungary and who now waits In vnln for tho British Consul, who Is to liberate him. Monsieur G. Ralnnl, tho former trapeze artist of Ronacher's variety show, now ' French lieutenant of tho reserves performs a trick on a. chair with three legs. An Instance of how nnxlous Irish sol diers are to go to tho fiont was wit nessed recently at Chelsea Barrack", where tho Irish Guards were quartered. Lato ono evening somo ono spread tho rumor that tho Iilsh Guaids weie to bo transferred to one of the nimy depots. That evening was ono of tho wildest known at Chelsea Barracks. Then camu tho announcement that tho rumor was truo. Immediately the Irish Guards sot up the cry, "Wo want tr go to tho front. Our place Is in Franco. Wo won't go to any depots." For moie than an hour tho yelling kept up. Then tho officer made speeches telling the men to bo patient that they Mon would be off for the scene of fighting. Even after these promises a force of mounted police was established about tho barracks to Insuie pence and quiet. Corporul J. Hnlley In n letter home o- RUSSIANS BY NIGHT " SCALE CARPATHIANS' SNOW-CLAD HEIGHTS Narrow Roads and Steep Defiles Impede Passage. Likened to Napoleon's Crossing of Alps. PETRDGUAD, Sept. 30. Napoleon's teat In ciosslug tho Alps may be duplicated by the Russians. Ono of the outstanding features t tho war haB been tho passage of thu Carpa thian Mountains by tho Russl.in army which Is Invading Hungary. Details wero received ht'io today. Somo of the passes through which tho Russians made their way havo nu nltitudo of UPOu feet and lie between heights continually capped with snow. Tho roads wero teui and narrow and the Russians made most of their marches at night so ua to es cape ambuscades. Thero weio steep cliffs to bo overcomo and stretches of tenl tory to be tr.ner.-H-d whero iho inellno was so sharp that tho soldiers liiul to l their bayonets to their rlllcs nnd uso them as alpenstocks. The task of hauling supply trains over this territory was n tiemomluiis ono. Tlio hardships of tho Invaders were multiplied by the scarcity of loads. Fortunately for tho Russians they met with little leslstniu-e. Tho Austrian sol diers posted on thu western slope-, of the faiimthlniis lied at tin- approach of ine Kiissian v.tiiKti.ml Tlu lin.ulei , wereaccompaiilt'd by hurdt-s of i'umkU. and theli feat In getting tlii'lr huit- up and down the steep inuuiitaiu slopt has aroused the admltatlou of the uiiiuh It seems that tho Austrlans uie aban doning t-astem Hungary to Its fate In ol der to co-operate with tho Unmans. Jn descending the plains wost of tin Carpathians the Russians will find their greatest obstacles nlong the banks of ! me Tisa imr. which Is lint-d wlli marshland So fur a known, there are no stiong fortresses between the m stem routhlUs of the Carpathians and the Tisza Kiwi but the country ofu-rs topoj,iaphKal ob stacles which will tax the Ingenuity of the Russian generals. presses lively contempt for German inaiksmanshlp, as follows: "On the firing line tho Germans seem to hno more ammunition than Is good for them, and they keep firing away at leust ten rounds for every ono of ours without doing hulf the damage, or any thing like it. "Theif doesn't appear to be a man among them who could score u 'bull's eye' once In a hundred shots, and as for making a good show nt Blsley, they sim ply couldn't do It anyhow. German pris oners admit that they are bad shots, nnd they nru amazed at tho way wo pepper them when they ure advancing. "It's very Jolly In camp In spite of nil the drawbacks of active service, nnd we have lively times when the Germans aren't hanging uiound to pay their rc speots. "it's a fine sight to see us on the march, swinging along the roads as hap py as schoolboys nnd singing nil the old songs we can think of. The tunes are sometimes a bit out, but nobody minds so long ns we're happy. "We're u Jolly night better fed than tho (lei mans, nnd In most ways better oft than tho men In South Africa. We nlwnj'H hnvu is much bully beef as we can cat, and potatoes and other vegeta bles with Jam nre nearly always served to us. "As we pass through the villages the French come out to cheer us and bring us food anil fruit. Cigarettes we get more of than we know what to do with. Somo of them arc rotten, so we save them for thu German prisoners, who will smoke anything they can lay their hands on. Flowers we get plenty of, nnd are hav ing the time of our lives." 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