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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
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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
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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.
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* CHOLERA VIOLENT IN *
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* VIENNA. Oct. ".? Asiatic ->!
4* cholera in violent form prevails 4*
? in Tarnow. Galicia. Forty 4*
? cases are reported. ? j
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COAL LAND LEASING IS
AT OPTION OF SECRETARY!
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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
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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.
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? ALBANIANS PILLAGE *
CHRISTIAN VILLAGES ?
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?> report that Albanians are pill- ?>
i' aging and burning Christian ?
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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>
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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
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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.
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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.
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FUGITIVES FROM NORTH
FRANCE PLACED AT 10,000.000
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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
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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.
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GALVESTON SHIPPING
? COTTON TO EUROPE
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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
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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
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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.
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? 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.
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? GERMANS ADMIT *
? LOSS OF 300,000 4*
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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. *
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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
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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.
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ANTWERP SURE TO FALL.
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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."