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THE ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE VOL. IV., NO. 585. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 7, 1914. PRICE TEN CENTS. ANTWERP'S DOOM SEEMS SEALED AND CITIZENS ELY \ " Germans Claim Victory in East Prussia ARMIES IN AISNE STRUGGLE ARE DEADLOCKED RUSSIA LOSING IN EAST BERLIN, Oct. 7, The War Office has an nounced that the Rus sians are retreating* from East Prussia. RUSSIANS FORCED ACROSS VISTULA j Vienna, Oct. 7.? An official! report says the German and Au strian forces in Russian Poland have driven the Russians kick across the Vistula river, in: spite of heavy reinforcements the Russians have received from (ialicia. The Austrians and Germans are now invading Galicia. and, according to plans seized a bridge in Sanomir that was held by the Russians. GERMANS ARE NOW USING DARDANELLES ?fr - London. Oct. 7.?An Athens dispatch j to the Times says that four huge how itzers, 42 cemeter models, from Ger many have been sent through the Dar danelles on a German merchantman, together with large quantities of am munition and other war materials. ENTENTE CANNOT USE DARDANELLES Berlin. Oct. 7.?A semi-official state ment issued by the government says that attempts of the Triple Entente to enforce the opening of the Dardan elles have failed. ? ??? + ??????>?????[ + V * CHOLERA VIOLENT IN * 4* .. TARNOW. GALiCIA ? ? 4? ? * VIENNA. Oct. ".? Asiatic ->! 4* cholera in violent form prevails 4* ? in Tarnow. Galicia. Forty 4* ? cases are reported. ? j 4> 4* 4* 4> 4* 4* 4* 4* 4? 4? 4? 4* + 4> 4* 4* 4? ? ?> COAL LAND LEASING IS AT OPTION OF SECRETARY! ?? WASH INC TON". Oct. 7. The Alaska coal land leasing bill, as approved by the conference committee makes it discretionary with the Secretary of the Interior as to whether or not he enters into a lease of land* instead of mandatory as the Senate bill made j it. NEW HEAD FOR AN OLD COLLEGE *J??? WASHINGTON. Oct. 7.?The Presi dencv of Washington and Jefferson college, one of the oldest institutions west of the Alleghenies. was tendered today to Dr. Frederick W. Hinitt, the president of the Central University of Kentucky, at Danville. It is positive ly said that Dr. Hinitt will accept the position. Dr. Jantes Moffatt. who had been at the head of Washington and Jefferson thirty-two years, retired on his own motion last April, since which time a committee appointed by the board of trustees has been looking for a suit able successor. Dr. Hinitt has been president of the Central University ten years, and during four years pre ceding he was president of Parsons college at Fairfield, la. U. OF W. SELECTS CAPTAIN FOR ROWING TEAM SEATTLE. Oct. 7.?Russell Callow, a member of two University of Wash ington crews, has bee i elected to cap tain the varsity oarsmen this year. Callow rowed four two years ago at Poughkeepsie and was number seven In the first varsity eight this year, rowing in the Poughkeepsie regetta. THE WEATHER TODAY. Maximum?52. Minimum?40. Rainfall?.22 inch. Partly cloudy; rain. RUSSIANS TO JOIN SERVIANS Budapest, Oct. 7.? Russians are invading Hungary with the intention of forming a junction with the Servians in the south. They are advancing in two col umns. one column making an as rr.ult on Hoss/.ume/.odlhepolje, Northwest Hungary, and the other descending the valley of Nagyan against Huszt. The Servians have begun a northeast advance from Semlin to join the Russians. CZAR'S ARTILLERY .DAMAGES PRZEMYSL ??g? Paris, Oct. 7. ? A dispatch from Petrograd states that Prz emysl is being bombarded by Russian heavy artillery. Dam age being inflicted is considera ble. Houses are on fire inside the fortifications. GERMANS LOSE NORTH SEA CRAFT London, Oct. 7.?A German torpe do beat destroyer, cruising off the es tuary of the Ems,?in the North Sea, was sunk by a mine. The crew was saved. v ?> + *} <? -J {? ??? ?} ?>?>?>? {? t * ? ALBANIANS PILLAGE * CHRISTIAN VILLAGES ? ?> . + * ATHENS, Oct. 7.?Refugees + ?> from Epirus. European Turkey, + ?> report that Albanians are pill- ?> i' aging and burning Christian ? + villages in the District of Av ?{? + lona. ? ?I* *?* v *?? ?> ??? ?j? ?J* *?? 0 ALL LARGER POSTOFFICES ARE TO BE REORGANIZED WASHINGTON*. Oct. 7?Postmaster Coneral A. S. Burleson has announced a plan to reorganize the staffs of all the larger postotfices of the country, relieving postmasters of all duties ex cept executive functions. San Fran cis * Los Angeles. Portland and Seat tle are included in Uiu postotfices to be reorganized. NEW YORK NOT TO CONTROL THAT POOL NEW YORK. Oct. 7.?It is under stood that the management of the $100 000.000 gold fund to pay balances will not he entirely controlled by. Now York bankers, a stipulation which has caused some friction in connection with the original $130,000,000 plan I The money will be deposited in New York at stated periods, although it I is possible that some gold may be shipped direct to Canada from Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago. LONDON PAPER PRINTS LINCOLN'S SPEECH LONDON, Oct. 7.? The London Chronicle today printed prominentlj Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address with the comment. "This same hope that the preseni war will lead to a 'new birth of free dom' animates the people of Englanti today." PRAISES PRESIDENTS NEUTRALITY POSITIO> ?*? PARIS, Oct. 7.?The Figaro, com meriting on President Wood row Wil son's declaration of neutrality in thi European war says: "The President has sruck the righ note, and no person of good sens will criticise the position he has adopi ed in regard to the present war." MONTANA JUDGE REMOVES MAYOR AND SHERIF BUTTE. Mont, Oct. 7.?Judge Ayrer of the State District Court, yesterda removed Mayor Lewis J. Duncan an Sheriff Timothy Drlscoll, Socialist from office. They were charged wit i neglect of their official duties an 1 found guilty. iJAPS SINK GERMAN i SQUADRON Tokyo, Oct. 7.?The belief is expressed at the War Office to day that the Gernutn cruiser Cormoran and two German gun boats had been sunk in Iviao chou bay JAPANESE OCCUPY CAROLINE ISLAND Peking, Oct. 7.?According to a Ger man news agency the Japanese have occupied the island of Yap, the most important of the Caroline group of isl ands near the Philippines. GERMAN CRUISERS RUIN PAPEETE ?+? San Francisco, Oct. 7.?Two lives were lost, $2,000,000 damage done, two vessels sunk and two blocks of busi ness houses and residences destroyed ; by the German cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in their bombardment of the French colony at Papeete, Ta hiti island, last month. Refugees from the isalnd told the story upon their arrival today aboard ! the steamer Moana. AUSTRIA LOSES SIX VESSELS. 4* Paris Oct. 7.?A dispatch from Ac ona, Italy, says four Austrian destroy ers and two torpedo boats have been sunk by contact mines on the Dalma tian coast. Most of the crews perish ; ed. ? ? ? * FUGITIVES FROM NORTH FRANCE PLACED AT 10,000.000 ?? BERLIN, Oct. 7.?A correspondent from behind the French lines estimates the fugitive civilian population of Northern France at 10,000,000, staliug that there is great distress among them. The fugitives ftrc said to be in Paris. West. Central and Southern France. ROUMANIANS THINK GERMANY IS HELPING TURKEY ?+? ^ ROME, Oct. 7?The Roumanian gov i eminent has placed an order for 100, 000,000 cartridges with Italian factor ies. A Bucharist telegram says that ] demonstrations are being made in the j support of the demand that the pres i ent Roumanian cabinet be dissolved, ! because it allowed 800 German sailors 1 and 40 carloads of ammunition to pass through to Turkey. CAPTURING COUNT MAKBS PRIVATE HERO ANTWERP, Oct. 6.?Proclaimed as ; the greatest hero of the war, for his daring capture of Count von Buelow, the son of the German chancellor. Pri vate J. J. Rousseau of the Fourth Bel j gian Chausseurs. is now enjoying the ; favors and glories usually heaped up on a hero. He is wearing the military gold cross presented to him by the Belgian King and is said to be the re cipieut of the Order of Leopold equiva , [ lent to the British Victoria cross. r In his encounter with Count von 5 Buelow, Rousseau was severely in jured by a nasty kick in the knee from t the Count' horse. Rosseau relieved the count of his I dispatch case, his uniform and 165,00( francs. The money he turned over tc the Red Cross fund. ? ' ? GALVESTON SHIPPING ? COTTON TO EUROPE ? ? NEW YORK, Oct. 7.?Galveston re '* ports the shipment of 8150 bales o e cotton to the continent. 1 FORD PEOPLE TO t? ' MAKE 75,000 CAR! DETROIT, Oct. 7.?The Ford Moto Co., announced the production and d( F livery schedules of 75,000 cars in 0< tober, November and December. ?? SUBWAY HANDLES MORE y THAN 1,000,000 A DA s> NEW YORK; Oct. 7.?During th h year to June 30. 1914, 340,413,103 tic! ets were sold in New York subwa an average of 1,001,315 tickets a da INO GAINS IN BATTLE Of ASSNE LONDON, Oct. 7 The battle in France to night shows less signs of an early termination now than were shown two weeks ago. Gen. von Kluck,when he was about to be enveloped, received heavy rein forcements from an un known quarter. He is now attempting to out flank the Allies. Neither commander is making any clains. WEST WING ENGAGED. Paris. Oct. 7.?The War Of fice announced this evening that the Allies left and the German right are engaged in fierce con flict, and that the.Germans have been pushing an enveloping movement until the battle ex tends from l.eus to Labasse, with strong forces of German cavalry centered at Armentieres. GIGANTIC "SNIPING" ENGAGE MENT. ?4.? London, Oct. 7.?With the excep tion of the left wing of the allied army j where there is every reason to be | lieve that a lively action is being j fought, the great battlefront in the wctsern area may be described as a gigantic "sniping" engagement in in which riflemen have been replaced by batteries of heavy artillery masked [ along the heighths of the Aisne and j the Meuse rivers. PUTRIFYING BODIES PREVENT ACTION ?4?? Washington, Oct. 7. ? Col. Webb ; Hayes, of th'e American army, who to j day returned from Europe where he has been observing the war said: "When I left Havre. Sept. 27, the Al lies were fe.irful that they could not I penetrate the German lines through a ! mass of putrifying men and horses i on the battlefields. "I don't see how they could pass] | through these fields, as the stench was horrible. "The idea of climbing over the bod ies of men must be revolting even to i brave men and hardened soldiers." I SON Of; LORD COWDRAY IS AMONG THE KILLED LONDON, Oct. 7.?The report of . the death of Geofroy Pearson, son of Lord Cowdray, is confirmed. Ho was killed on a French battlefield. ? ALLIES CONTROL ALL EUROPEAN SEAS BORDEAUX, Oct. 7.?The fleets of ? the Allies control the Atlantic, Med ) iterranean and North Sea, according > to an official Navy Department state ment. ' M'ADOO CONDEMNS ; MONEY HOARDING WASHINGTON. Oct. 7? Secretary of the Treasury William McAdoo is 5 sued a statement last night in wliicl he charged that some individuals ant r corporations are hoarding money. H( j- said that this practice is just as repre > hensible as Is that of banks refusing to extend credit where they have tlx ability to extend it to those who mer It credit. Y He declared that there is no rea son why people should not deposi le their money In the banks; and tlia k- business should not bo carried on ii y, the United States in a .normal mar y. ner. CANADA . MAY SEND 20,000 MEN Ottawa, Oct. 7j?Canada will release immediately 20,000 troops for the front. This will be the second expeditionary force, and will make the Cana-; dian continent at the front over 52,000. i GERMAN LOSS IS PLACEJ AT 1,000,000 PARIS, Oct. 7.?The Matlln, analyz ing the situation, says: ./"After eight weeks of war it is es timated that the Germans have lost 1,000,000, men against France, Russia and Belgium. Austria has lost anoth er 1.000,000 against Russia and Scr via. "Counting the men from 17 to 60. Germany still has 4,000,000 under the colors, 1,000,000 in France, 500,000 in garrisons and guarding communica tions, and 2,500,000 to resist the Slav invasion. It is reported that since the battle of the Aisne began, the German dead are being piled in railroad cars and taken to Germany." CHURCHILL EXPECTS ITALY'S ASSISTANCE ROME, Oct. 7? That Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty i:t the Hritlsh Cabinet, expects the as sistance of Italy in the war Is indi cated by an Interview given the Lon don correspondent of the Giornale d* Italia, and printed by that paper, Mr. Churchill said: "We always thought It was impos sible for Italy to fight with Austria, or to fight against England, and In all our Admiralty arrangements for the Mediterranean, since I have been here, we have always acted on the certainty that Italy would be neutral and measured our own naval force only against Austria." The Collapse of Austria. Of the Adriatic situation after the war he said: "Of the great changes that will result from the collapse of Aus tria on land, the greatest feature yet apparent in the course of the war is the collapse of Austria as a military factor. The collapse appears to be irreparable, and that is r. tremendous event in the history of the world. "Italy would have nothing to ap prehend. from a victory of England and France. She would always be I strong enough to deal with Austria on the sea, unless of course, a victorious Germany came to the aid of Austria. | If Germany succeeded in the war, and English power were broken, Germany could, of course, send as many ships as she liked to join the Austrian fleet, and could send them much quicker than Italy could build them. "Some day the natural and true frontiers of Italy must be restored. There never will bo real peace and comfort until then." AUSTRIA VIGOROUSLY PREPAIRNG AGAINST PANIC , --?>? VIENNA, Oct. 7.?The government lias been compelled to resort to vig orous measures to prevent n panic. Insolvent concerns are being super vised by a commission appointed by the government. This step has been taken to prevent wholesale bankrupt cy. During the war no bankruptcy pro ceeding may be started in courts. The government has also issued a decre" taking the form of a moratorium by which no executions may bo levied. MARINE INSURANCE RATES GO HIGHEF J NEW YORK. Oct. 7.? New Yorl marine underwriters, because of th< activity of German commerce destroy 1 ors, particularly along the coast o ' Indiad, have raised the insurance rati 3 to India and the Far East to 5 pe " cent. For a time they were quotei ' at two and one-half per, cent. Rate 3 to South American ports have beet * raised front two to three per cent. ' * * * ? GERMAN GENERALS KILLED IN THE EAS' BERLIN, Oct. 7?Gen. Steinmetz an " | Count Rantzau, included In the lates '"j list of dead, are said to have bee [-killed in the eastern campaign. ZEPPLIN ; MAY RAID ENGLAND London, Oct. 7. ? A dispatch fro mThe Hague correspondent of the Daily Express says the German newspapers reaching there indicate that Count Zeppe lin is now at Wilhelmshaven on the North sea with his stalT. It is believed here that he is planning a great air raid on Eng land. Wilhelmshaven is the port from which such an air raid oh the British Isles is expected to start. One of (he German papers publishes on interview with Count Zeppelin in which he is quoted as saying that he had not forgotten England, and would prove it soon. 4- + ?+ 4* 4* 4- 4? 4- 4? 4* 4- 4* 4- + 4* + 4* .}. + ? GERMANS ADMIT * ? LOSS OF 300,000 4* *? * 4- ROME, Oct. 7?Berlin has 4 ? published an ofllcial statement 4 4- showing the loss in killed, 4? wounded and missing for Sep- 4> ? tcmber, beginning Sept. 1, to 4 4- be 117,000. 4 ? It is admitted that the total 4* ?> casualties since the beginning 4 4* of tho war amount to over 300.- 4 ? 000. * .J. <? 4* 4* 4* 4* 4- 4- 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4 GERMANS EFFICIENT WITH SEARCHLIGHT LONDON, Oct. 7.?The Chronicle correspondent in Caris thus describes the use of searchlights by the Ger mans at the front: "As socii as darkness falls the Ger mans light their lamps and play them upon our position. The fingers of light creep along the hillsides, touching the batteries or sleeping batalions. They are extraordinarily inquisitive. They point suddenly and arrestingly at all I moving objects, which halt at the first touch of the perilous illumination. "A friend of mine, who has been driving staff officers about" the front, tells me a few days ago he was driv ing rapidly toward a wireless signal station when his car was picked out by one of these travelling rays. "In a moment he and the officers with him were flooded in the white brilliance of it. so that they were dazzled and startled. It gave tut ex traordinary physical sensation to ray friend, who is a man of steady nerve. I He said lie fell like a man stripped naked and put up against a white wall for execution. He seemed to j know that at the end of this great white beam was a staring eyeball watching his slighest movement and ready to kill him before he crept be yond the light into the darkness. "His thoughts were hardly fantas . tic, for a moment after his car had | been revealed a shell came hurtling | overhead and several of the bullets in it buried themselves into the chas sis." BANKERS AND BROKERS HELP UNEMPLOYED CLERKS NEW YORK. Oct. 7. ?The New ( York bankers and brokers of Wall . Street have formed a committee that is caring for those clerks, stenograph era and messengers who have beer thrown out of employment on account I of the protracted closures of the New York Stock exchange. Many of then: l were in want. - GERMAN GOVERNMENT f BORROWS $1,500,001 B j ?4*?? r BERLIN, Oct. 7.?Final results o ' German subscription to the war loai 8 are not yet known, but it is officlall; 8 stated that so far as can be determir ed now, the amount has reached $1 V 500,000. The German Press says: r "Specie reserve in Reichbank las (1 week increased by 41,000,000 marki si ($10,250,000) and the circulation note n decreased by 58,000,000 marks ($14 j 500,000)," GERMANS GAIN AT ANTWERP ANTWERP, Oct. 7 The bombardment o f the city of Antwerp is momentarily expected. The Military Governor of the city has notified the Burgomuster that those desiring to escape from the city should flee at once. LONDON, Oct. 7 Steam ship service be tween London and Ant werp has been suspend ed. \ ANTWERP SURE TO FALL. ?? Berlin, Oct. 1.?The Germans have captured Forts Kessel an<T Brokhem, in Antwerp's outer ring of fortifications, according to an announcement of the Ger man General staff. Antwerp's early fall is de clared to he a certainty. SPIES CAUSED FALL OF NAMUR LONDON, Oct. 7.?The fall of Na mur was the result of the work of German spies, according to the Times' correspondent in Belgium. The principle feature in the Namur defenses was the Iliver Meuse. It is stated that Germans, assisted by spies managed to open the tide gates, thus lowering the waters of the river, which was extremely deep, and enabling the German forces to cross the river, and enter the city. GERMAN TROOPS MARCH ON TOWARD FRANCE OSTEND, Oct. 7.?A column of 20.* o00 young German troops consisting of horse, foot and artillery arc marching through Templove in the | direction of the French frontier. GERMAN SHRAPNEL DEADLY TO ALLIES ? I.ONDON, Oct. 7.? The Standard's correspondent at Bordeaux says: The proportion of bullet wounds among the Allies' wounded is so very small that those suffering from them are curios ities. "One gunner described to me the terrible effect of the shells. When the Germans got within range of the men working his battery not one es caped injury. This was near Sols sons. An officer near him had both legs and one arm blown off. A ser geant had his eye taken out, and wounded men were lying around. See ing so many injured, my informant said, ho began to feel as if he him self suffered some injury, particularly as one foot felt numb. Ho discovered ' a big hole in his ankle, but felt no pain until taken to a field hospital. 1 The concussion had dazed him and for the time being rendered him in sensible to pain. A shrapnel bullet struck a man near him in the hip and tore his leg oien to the knee. "The gunner's story and the nar ratives of others confirm tho opinion 5 universally expressed regarding the efficiency of the German artillery, f The Allies, however, despise the Ger a man infantry, whose shooting they y say is worse than that of Chinese i- when first learning to fire a gun. "All references to tho German in ' ftintry are contemptuous, and any suggestion of a comparison between it the German and French foot soldiers s. is simply laughed at. Our British s soldiers have formed a very high ,- opinion of the dash and efficiency of tho French infantry."