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THE ARIZONA. REPUBLIC AK AN INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE JOURNAL TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR 10 PAGES PHOENIX, ARIZONA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1914 10 PAGES VOL. XXV. NO. 108 4 . t i BRITISH AND VICTORIOUS; LOSE THEN Continuous Fighting Is in Progress Along "Whole Lino of Battle, English Cavalry Brushing Back Mounted German Troops RUSSIANS ADMIT LOSS OF CORPS Pointed Out That News Given Out by Russians Is Generally Rather Meager, lint, Good or Bad, Is Correct as a Rule associated press dispatch LONDON, Sept. 3. (Thursday) The official Tress Bureau issued the follow ing statement: "Continuous fighting has been in progress a" along the whole line of hnttle. The British' cavalry engaged with distinction the cavalry of the rnemy, brushed them back and cap tured ten guns. The French army vontinued the offensive and gained ground in the Lorraine district. In other regions of the war the Russian -irmy is investing Koenigsberg. The Russian victory, which was complete at L-mlers, had already been announced." A Petrograd (St. Petersburg) special to Reuters' says the garrison at Koe nigsherg. East Prussia, has made an unsuccessful attempt at a sortie. A dispatch to the Chronicle from Paris states that orders have been is sued for the removal of all the wound ed from Paris to Rennes and Nantec. A Reuter dispatch from Petrograd says a battle which had been admitted us reverse to the Russian troops in Kast Prussia was fought in Osterode m the Soldau-Niedenburg-Osterode line. Advices have been received here from 8t. Petersburg that the Russian general staff frankly confesses to disaster to two army corps including the loss of Ihrt-e generals. Telegraphing from St. Petersburg, the correspondent of The Times tie dares the war reports given out by the headquarters staff in the Russian capi tal are generally rather meagre, byt in contradiction to those from Berlin and Vienna they are always true. , That the headquarters will stick to this plan also when the news is bad is proved by the announcements of today. The wording of today's announce ment indicates that other Vistula fort resses, besides Graudenz and Thorn have sent reinforcements. This news arrived last night and the people of St. Petersburg received It with firmness. Their faith in final Russian victory remains wholly unshaken. General Samsoniv, one of the Rus sian commanders killed, was considered one of Russia's most capable and bril liant generals. He greatly distin guished himself in the Russij-Japane.se war. where he commanded a division of Siberian Cossacks. He was after wards nominated the commander of the army corps and later was appointed commander of the troops in Turkestan. He was very popular and his name was a household word among all classes. The other two lost commanders, The Times correspondent goes on, were Generals Martos, commander of the army corps, and General Pestitich, at tached to the general staff. The Daily Mail's correspondent at Abbeville, IYance learns that Emperor William was in Charleroi, Belgium, last isjturday where he viewed the battle field, later motoring to Mons. He spent Saturday night in Brussels and stayed at the Bellevue Hotel. The young Duke of Brunswick, a son-in-law of Emperor William gave a hie banouet !ajt week In the Pnlapn r,f Laeken in Brussels, according to the correspondent. The princiDal guest was the emperor's son, Prince August William. The correspondent also says, "King Albert came within an ace of death during the sortie on Malines. He was directing operations from his motor car, when a shrapnel burst ten yards away, blowing off the rear wheels of the car." Russians Continue to Lambsrg ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 2. An official announcement says: "Our forces invading Galicia con- German Embassy Hears Of Horrors In East Prussia (Associated Press Dispatch) WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. The German embassy re ceived a wireless from Berlin announcing that German and Austrian troops occupied Lodz, the largest manu facturing center in Russian Poland, and that the battle northward from Lemberg is, continuing. The report confirmed that the French abducted four teen women and twenty-five children from the German ironiier place, aiso tne nospiiai doctor ana nis assistant i rom Lurchingen. ' Their fate is unknown. The message says the papers are full of the Russian horrors in East Prussia. The Russians cut off the breast of a mother and impaled her five' children on a fence. Four Cossacks ravished a woman While they .handcuffed her husband and forced him to be 4 witness. .( FRENCH CZAR'S MEN WIN AGAIN MRS. GOETHALS IS ARRESTED AS A SPY WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. With the return to Washington of the American naval officers who were in France at the time of the outbreak of the war, it became j known that Mrs. George W. Goe- thals, wife of Governor Goethals of the Panama canal zone, was j j arrested at Villefranehe as a j German spy shortly after the 1 war began. j Mrs. Goethals is of German de- scent and speaks the language j ! fluently. She had some diffi- ! cilty in proving her identity, but finally produced her marriage certificate. When the French of- j ficers learned she was the wife J of the builder of the Panama j canal they could not apologize sufficients, and he.- release was ordered immediately, i I A tinue their advance toward Lem berg. The enemy fell back gradu ally before our troops. We captured some cannon, rapid fire guns and caissons. The pursuit continues. Near Guila and Lipa the enemy oc cupied a position of such natural strength that it was considered im pregnable. They desperately attempt ed to stop our advance by a flank ing movement in the direction of Maturz. We repulsed the Austrians. inflicting severe losses. We buried on the battlefield 14,600 dead Aus trians, captured a flag, thirty-two guns, a quantity of supplies and many prisoners, including a general. "On the south front in the War saw district all the Austrian attacks were repelled with success. Assum ing the offensive on our right wing, we forced the Austrians to retreat, capturing three cannons, ten rapid fire guns and over 1000 prisoners. According to their statements the Austrian losses were very heavy." The general staff announces that the Austrian Fifteenth division was completely routed near Lurschoff August 2S and 100 officers and 4000 soldiers were taken prisoners. SAY NEUTRALITY VIOLATED German Legation Protests at Landing of Japs at Lung Kow associated press dispatch PEKIN, Sept. 2. The German lega tion protested to the foreign office against the Japanese violation of Chi na's neutrality by landing at Lung Kow. News of the landing caused no surprise here as the Japanese legation several days ago requested the foreign office to remove the fifty kilometer limit (thirty miles) prescribed by the f'hinese as the fighting area around Tsing Tau. The foreign office did not comply with the request, but it is understood Chinese troops will be instructed not to oppose the Japanese officials, de scribed as incensed but afraid, to af ford Japan cause for territorial or other exactions. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH LONDON, Sept. 2. "With the Ger mans so near there has not been a 'day in the last month when Paris Presented the appearance of such icalm," says the Paris correspondent of the Chronicle. "More shops were open, and rows of chairs appeared before the chief cafes. "The possibility of a German raid is slight. Solitary fortresses may perhaps be smashed, but an attempt to cut down the Oise valley towards Paris, except as a trivial raid, with out first routing masses of the army, is madness. "We must assume therefore that if the Germans faced eastward, and turned their backs on the British and other forces gathering in Picardy, 0 STUBBED APPROACH ra TRUST BILL IS OUT OF SENATE Measure to Supplement the Sherman Law, Completing Administration Trust Pro gram This Session, Passes Higher House UNDERWENT MANY AMENDMENTS It "Will Now Be Sent to Conference Where the Federal Trade. Commis sion Bill is Still Under Consideration ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 The Clay ton anti-trust bill, to supplement the Sherman law, which will complete the administration trust legislative program at this session of congress, passed the senate today. The bill, amended by the senate in many par ticulars, will be sent to conference where the federal trade commission bill is still under consideration. Re ports on both measures are hoped for within two weeks. The bill provides a fine and im prisonment for officers of corpora tions convicted of offenses against the trust laws; prohibits exclusive and tying contracts which restrict the independence of put-chasers; prohib its holding companies where their effect is to lessen competition or to create monopoly, and makes illegal two years after passage of the act, interlocking directorates in competing corporations, and any one which has a capital of more than a million. It also forbids interlocking railroad di rectorates with corporations dealing in securities and railroad supplies or contracts and liberalizes the proced ure of injunction and contempt cases. The sections of the house bill re lating to price discrimination and unfair competition were stricken out in the senate. Labor, agricultural and horticultur al organizations, not conducted for profit, were exempted from the pro visions relating to monopoly. The maximum penalty fixed for a violation of the provision preventing an exclusive contract is $5,000 or one year's imprisonment or both. The provision against holding companies will not prevent common carriers from acquiring branch lines where there Is no substantial competition The sections relating to interlink ing directorates are made effective two years after the passage of the act. Directors of railroads, under the terms of the bill, cannot be interlock ed with corporations dealing in se curities, railroad supplies or other articles of commerce or contracts for j construction, maintenance, etc., to (Continued on Pago Three) AT OF THE GERMANS the old province in the north of France, but now forming the de partment of Somme, a part of Oise. and Pas de Calais, they must either win an immediate victory or risk be ing caught between the hammer and the anvil. If they win they will still have to meet other armies, including a large garrison army. Common sense has been shown in preparing against any contingency. "No considerable change is percep tible in the military situation, and it is believed that the main French army and British wing still hold the line. So far the German turning movement by western Belgium, which cost enormous losses and risks, has been successful, but now the posi tion is very different. The best of the Prussian and Hanover troops are now exhausted, and the Germans have the main bodies of the allies to meet. "Forts on which so many brains had been spent were not silenced. What with prospective defeat and flight, piecemeal slaughter is open for the Germans. "A brief official review just issued reveals the vast extent of this un precedented battlefied, seventy-five miles long. Forty-five miles south west from their main army, the al lies blocked the German path. "Whether it is the same British force fighting on Somme to the southwest, or another, we do not know. Near Sedan, French troops had to effect a slow retreat, but it repelled another German attack so doing, inflicting heavy German losses. Fresh German reinforce ments then appeared from Rocroi a fortified town" in the department of Ardennes. "Many wounded continue to arrive in Paris, some with trophies, such as swords and helmets. "Red Cross ladies have been offi cially informed that twelve' of their number were killed and others miss ing." Uncle Sam's Marine War Risk Insurance Bureau Opens Today ASSOCIATED PltESS DISPATCH WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. Uncle Sam's marine war risk- insurance bu reau, designed to inspire confidence in American shippers and aid Amer ican trade expansion, will be open for business tomorrow at the treas ury department. The president signed the act creating the bureau, and to- J - night Secretary McAdoo announced the appointment of W. C. Delancy of New York, an underwriting insurance expert, as director of the bureau. Mr. Delancy will open the office tomorrow, ready to insure American ships and American cargoes on American ships. His bureau will be under Assistant Secretary Peters. No requests for insurance had reached the bureau tonight. The administra tion plans for the merchant marine also took definite form in other di rections. At a conference between the president. Secretary Daniels and members of the naval affairs and merchant marine committees of the house, differences between the two committees were smoothed out, and it was decided to press one measure IH BUTTE FOB First Day of Martial Law in the Montana City Passes Without Disturb ances, But Many Union Leaders Are Arrested ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH BUTTE, Sept. 2. Butte's first day of martial law was without disturbance. The Montana National Guard occupied the court house and city hall. The headquarters of the state militia was established in the court house with Major Roote as chief of stuff and judge advocate. At the city hall Provost Marshal Conley took charge. Leaders of the miners union are being arrested MILITIA REM ANY OUTBREAK w....v.: ,... ...,i ir, ihoimaKe ciear umi .tree,. nd on th roof of the court house. Three of the miners arrested carried guns. Provost Marshal Conley searched the city for "Muckie" MacDonald. pres ident of the union, but he could not be j found. He is wanted on charges of inciting riots. The list of men who are wanted is said by Major Roote to be a long one. The police and sheriffs forces were ordered by Major Dona hue, who is in command here, to co operate with the militia in making ar rests and maintaining peace." The city patrol wagon is being used by the mili tia in carrying prisoners to the county jail. They will be tried by military court with Major Roote presiding. For the first time in three days the juris diction committee of the new union did not appear at the mines to enforce' its order that prohibited non-members from working. For several blocks around the court house the streets were patrolled by mi litiamen who prohibited persons from assing through the guarded district. On two sides of the court house Gat ling guns are placed in the streets. Two machine guns are placed on the roof of the court house also. The state roops will sleep in the court house for the present. The order of Major Donahue placing Butte under martial law prohibits boys (Continued on Page Three) o MOVE FROM PARIS TO BORDEAUX PARIS, Thursday Sept. 3. A proclama tion has just been issued by the government an nouncing that the gov ernment departments will be transferred tem porarily to Bordeaux. The proclamation was issued by the minister of the interior, who said the decision had been I taken' solely upon the j demand of the military authorities because the fortified places of Paris, Avhile not necessarily -likely to be attacked, would become the pivot of the field operations of the two armies. , The building of supplement ary defense work is pro ceeding vigorously. Sev eral gates of Paris were closed to traffic last night. for obtaining a, government-owned fleet of ships. Chairman Alexander reported fav orably to the house the bill for a $10,000,000 company to secure freight carrying vessels. Thirty millions of Panama bonds will be used to buy the ships, the government accepting the company's bonds as reimburse ment Tf waa fltififlpn to amend tnis n , . tn hp ,lspfl ,,v the navy if necessary. The president is firm in the belief that there will be no violation of neutrality even if the German steamers now marooned in American ports are purchased. An executive order suspending cer tain, sections of the navigation laws, authorized under the registry bill passed last week, will be issued to morrow', removing the final objec tions of the big shipping interests to placing their fleets under the Ameri can flag. Such concerns as the Unit ed Fruit company, the Standard Oil company, the United States Steel company and the Dollar Steamship company are expected to make im mediate applications. These com panies alone would add 200 steamers to the American merchant marine. President Will Begin Prep aration of Message to Con gress Urging Necessity for Emergency Revenue Legislation ' ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. The ! president will begin tomorrow the preparation of the message which he plans to read congress on Friday urging the necessity of emergency revenue legislation to offset the cur tailment of customs receipts since the beginning of the, European war. About $100,000,000 must be provided. It is understood the president will sufficient revenues for all purposes are assured, but mil I lions of emergency revenue must be raised to prevent ue icju . Administration ie.iuna m i""s' already have been studying avaiiaoie sources of special revenue, and have been in frequent conference with Secretary McAdoo of the treasury department. Senator Simmons, chair man of the finance committee, has co-nperated with Representative Un derwood, chairman of the ways and means committee, in the preliminary deliberations, and both were con- cov.ivil ii-ciL'a stern thnt wur revenue will be necessary, probably to the extent or siuu,"uu,uwi. it was agreed that the ways and means committee should work out a bill which w ill be reported early next week. Mr. Underwood asked President Wilson to indicate what course he proposed to recommend in raising the needed revenues, but up to tonight the president had not done so. Suggestions have been made that beer, whisky, domestic wines, to bacco, railroad and theatre tickets, gasoline, patent medicines. soft drinks and other similar commodi ties be taxed. No agreement has been reached, however, by the ways and means majority. There is said to be a war revenue plan which rests undisclosed in Ma jority Leader Underwood's mind. His purpose is not to call the committee together until the president's mess age is received. He has withheld his plan to avoid unnecessary discussion but believes it will be simple enough to allow passage without delay. The treasury department reported today that customs revenues dropped off about $11,000,000 during August. The total customs receipts for the month were $19,413,463. Slight in creases over August, 1913, are shown in the internal revenue and corpora tion tax returns, but the total re ceipts for the month were nearly $10,000,000 less than in August of last vear. o TRAWLER BLOWN UP Seven Go Down in North Sea"When Mine Is Struck ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH GRIMSBY, England, Sept. 2. A trawler was blown up by a mine in the North sea and seven of the crew are missing. The trawler was endeavoring to avoid one mine and struck another. A Danish steamers is reported to have been blown up by mines but members of the crew were saved. o MEXICANS SURRENDER ARMS ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH MEXICO CITY, Sept. 2. Thous ands of arms of eery variety ot various epochs were turned in today at the National Palace, the citadel and foreign legations in conformity with the decree of military author! ties that all arms be surrendered. The time for surrender expired at noon. One room in the Brazilian legation was completely filled with arms and ammunition, WILSON SEES NEED FOB IRE mm nriiritiirni THEATER OF FIGHTING SHIFTS TO THE AIR OVER FRENCH CAPITAL 100 CHILDREN KILLED IN A HOSPITAL BY AUSTRIANS j 1 I PARIS, via London, Sept. 2. i j A dispatch from Petrograd, (St. j j Petersburg), says the Xovoe j Vremya charges that during the j j bombardment of Belgrade, the I Austrians destroyed the Materni- j ty hospital over which the Red j Cross flag was flying, killing 100 I children. ? President Wilson To Be Candidate For Renomination (Associated Press Dispatch) WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. The published statement by Vice-President Marshall declaring president Wilson would run for re-election in 1!1(J and would be the unan imous choice of his party, aroikcd wide interest in .,,.,1 H tiiiitnf-uniai tiicaa, uui lute House orticiais re fused to make any com ment. In democratic circles it is taken for granted the presi dent will be a candidate, al though it is stated that so far as known he has not given the question any per sonal attention. The renomination of sev eral senators and represen tatives avIio supported the president on the Panama tolls, Mexican and other questions has encouraged the democrat campaign man agers. In this connection . -1.4-1 -. 1 M n i AM ICi T')l I J I 1; I I I H ill si 1 r I I till lull iri 1 JCL1AJ. u --- --- , TV no IIC rCIJUllltilctllUIl VL resentative Hardwick for enator from Georgia. Praise of the president's Mexican policy in several of the democratic state platforms recently also has been re ceived with pleasure by the ipl' esident's adherents The vice-president's state ment was made in a discus sion of the democratic out look. BALLOTS BURNED AGAIN Rising Smoke Announces No Pontifl is Elected ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH ROME, via Paris. Sept. 2 The Sac red College of cardinals assembled at 10 o'clock this morning for the third baliot in the papal election, but little more than an hour later smoke issuing from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel revealed to the anxious throng in St. Peter's Square that an election had not been accomplished and the ballots were being burned in accordance with tra dition. o REPORT LINER CAPTURED ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH NEW YORK. Sept. 2. Reports are current that a British cruiser has succeeded in capturing fhe Kronprinz Wilhelm, the German liner which has been roaming the seas since her sud den departure from this port a day or so before war was declared be tween Germany and England. Sir Courtenay Bennett, the British con sul general, said tonight he had been unable to confirm the report from any source. Question Of Neutrality associated pi'.ess dispatch WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. American manufacturers have contracts to supply $20,000,000 in arms and ammunition to certain' European belligerents. Count Von Bernstorff,' the German ambassa dor here, asserted tonight on his re turn from New York. The ambassador said he did not know if any violation of neutrality was involved and was not yet in a position to say whether or not the matter would be called to the at tention of the American government. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the British ambassador 11 talked over with Presi dent Wilson today in general terms th subject of American neutrality in the European war. The ambassador ex pressed the hope and desire of his gov- Three German Aeroplanes Hover Over Pans AVhile Two French Mach i n e s Rise and Decisively En gage Them ESCAPE BY RISING HIGH Zeppelin Dirigible Circles Over Antwerp and Shots Are Fired at It While Powerful Searc blights Blind Intruder ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH PARIS, Sept. 2. A fight over Paris, in the air, took place this evening. Three German aeroplanes hovered over the capital, and imme diately two French machines were sent up to engage them. Meanwhile rifles and machine guns mounted on the public buildings kept up a con stant fire. By this means one of the German machines became separated from the others, and the French avi ators flew swiftly in its direction. The Germans opened fire, to which the Frenchmen replied vigorously. The engagement seemed to turn to the disadvantage of the German, who mounted speedily to a higher level, and holding this position, was saved from further attack. He fi nally disappeared in a northwesterly direction over Fort Romainville, after vain pursuit. The other German aeroplanes also e.sn.ined the fire of the guns, and after circling about for able time disappeared. a consider- Antwerp Menaced by Dirigible LONDON, Sept. 2 According to an Antwerp dispatch to the Even ing News, the Zeppelin dirigible which appeared over Antwerp Just before 4 o'clock this morning circled over only the southeasterly part of the city. At Deume, two miles east of Antwerp, the Zeppelin apparently made efforts to reach a wireless. It dropped bombs, four houses being hit and four persons wounded. When the airship appeared - over Antwerp an alarm was given quickly bv the forts. Searchlights were piaved upon the airship, but were rather ineffective, because the Zep pelin appeared just before dawn after a clear moonlight night, bnois were fired at it, and it is believed tne air ship was hit. At Berchem, inside the inner fortifications, a bomb de stroved the telegraph wires over the streets. At another point fell close to the railway lines, but did no damage. News from Antwerp ANTWERP. Sept. 2. The follow n official statement concerning the maneuvers of the Zeppelin airshiu over Antwerp last night and early today was issued tonight: "A Zeppelin airship was reporieu at 10:30 o'clock last nigiu u forts south of the city and aiso ne. the river Nethe. It passed over Alost toward Termonde and Ghent, re turned to Antwerp and there tried to flv over the city, but for a time the heavy artillery fire kept it out side the outer fortifications. "At 3 o'clock five or six bomb were dropped from it, and later sev en bombs were dropped in the Pare Du Rosignol, close to some houses which had been converted into hos pitals and which were flying the Red Cross flag. These houses were damaged and ten or twelve persons slightly injured. After the bomb dropping exploit, the Zeppelin rose and disappeared in the direction of Malines. "Examination of the bombs thrown showed they had a thin double cov ering, the two covers joined together with mushroom-shaped rivets, which act the part of bullets and are liable to cause terrible injury When the covers are burst by the explosion. They are similar to those used by the Bonnett motor car bandits.' GERMAN OFFICERS TAKEN ASSOCIATED PRE3S DISPi-TCHl PARIS, Sept. 2. The Petit Farisjen says that fourteen German staff r cers were captured and sent to Nimes in the department of Gard. Is Worrying Americans i ernment that none of the numerous I questions of neutrality which may I arise would affect friendly relations between Great Britain and the United States. While not disputing the right of the United States to purchase as many ships from one belligerent nation as she chooses, Great Britain would not be pleased if a great number of vessels were bought from German owners, a circumstance that might give Germany a big supply of money. The answer of the American govern ment to this idea Is that when the time for purchasing ships arrives nothing of an unneutral nature will be done and as equitable arrangements as possible will be sought,