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WEEKLY COURIER EN ED. DO AN E, Pub :ahar JASPER INDIANA lf th.-N will M too. all Mill be fi the ir poem. n. The antinoise society U making some headway in Europe. Tbi bu.sin- of "sweeping tta 1 niet.-ly a figure of speech. If the war should stop the manufac ture of dyes, the women could wear I wnue Ufe Insuranc conMnue to fail regularity. ora i vlUI Only a rash man will order French fried potatoes in rant these days. a G-rruan restau- If anybody predicted the resent trouble in F.irope he ouicht to be xshanied of himself. Englands voet laureate was right tnre with a poem He peppered away like a machine gun. Our idea of an Inaccessible hermit age would be a spot almost an y hero is the Atlantic oeea,n Czar Nicholas may be a Mnall man. but he has the largest ieroiial pro noun of all the rulers. The proposed boycott on meats and gga will be about as effective aa the average hunger strike. They have found a lockjaw serum How timely. Never was there a better time for locking up ja vs. The poet didn't have a European monarch in mind when he said man wants but little here below. la the army a man becomes a unit, and he isn't a man again until be ia dead or in the hospital. This year s peace prtxe may gc to some mild mannered married man who never quarrels with his wife Many of the warships that have been sunk in the dispatches bid fair to ' come up again on the fighting line. Their name being dreadnaught. why do those commanding the ships show such eagerness to keep under cover? j The "horrors of war" are being carefully suppressed, but not with the Idea of sparing anybody's feel ings. Who can blame the sun for having an eclipse, considering what a lot of trouble it has to look upon all the time? Most of those pictures you see of battles in the air are merely the art ist's conception of what he xpects to take place For a war where there are M war correspondents allowed th European catastrophe certainly is keeping a lot of reporters busy. It Is dangerous to be lending even a friend money these days. The fash Ion of declaring a moratorium ia grow ing steadily in favor. A wireless via Sayville reports 30 English battleships were destroyed by Zeppelins; but wail until the re port comes via Winsted. Submarines and aeroplanes would be more satisfactory as opponents In warfare If they gave any advance in dication of whom they intended to hit Time certainly does bring about some extraordinary changes. An actor Just been sued for $0",' The memory of a trip to a summer resort wfll be a mighty poor substi tute for an overcoat next winter. An untaught California artist ig I called the sculptor of the sands." ; He'd be a good chap to fix up the new styles In European boundary lines. Military strategists have Invented a complete set of euphemistic phrases for all occasions. What could be happier than ' seeking covering posi tions?" The war is helping the European mountain resorts, according to dis patches Tourists are evidently try ing to get as far above the bullets aa possible. So long as the horrors of war on this side of the Atlantic are chiefly confined to going without caviar. Wid ow Cliqunt and Mumm s extra dry. Americans will save money. The price of perfume has gone up, but there is plenty of good soap made In this country, and 'hern Is no em bargo on the supply of water. Another horror of war Is discovered In the fact that American bon vivants will now have to drink their Ameri can wines without Imported labels. A Paris dressmaker predicts that women of the future will wear clothes that are essentially mannish, but be la not predicting anything more, than the women are predicting themselves. SCENE I hese photographs, jus' received struetion of that once beautiful H 1b and the inse rt a iHgjllMD Of the PI ic AND LOSE ALONG THE RIVER AISNE Hundreds Die in Charges Which Really Gam Little for Either Contestant. PARIS CLAIMS GAINS ON WEST German Line Holding Firm, and Even Making Advances. Declares Ber n Series of Battles Seems Likely to Continue for Some Tim Official Announcement From Berlin Says There Is Nothing New to Report. While the battle of the allies and the Germans continues along the en tire front in France there has been relatively no change in the position of the armies The hardest fighting an par-ntly is proceeding on the eastern and western ends of the lines, the allies on the west end are endeavoring i sat enrirrle the Germans and on th ast the Germans are trying to break through the allies' lines In the vicinity of Verdun In the center a lull in the warfare is reported German Attack All Along Line. Ixmdcn. Sept. 29 Terrific fighting is in progress all along the great 120 mile front of the battle of the Aisne. the French and Hritlsb continuing their desperate efforts to turn Genera! von Kluek's right w ing simultaneous ly with a vigorous effort on the part of the kaiser's army to break through the --nter of the allies' line A special dispatch from W T. Mas----. the London Telegraph correspond ent, from a town In France the nam--Of which is deleted by a censor, says "The situation on the Alsne and MM appears to be this: "The Ctermans clear! r Lid tin-a--the best road to Paris and are deter mined to make another attempt to sain It While continuing bj engage the Hrlnah lines they are throw inr almost their entire weicht againnt th French troops on our left The allies are mnking pregre against the enemy's right flank, according to an official statement, and. although th Paris war offlc admits hat the Germans gained som- grotin! It adds that the teni'nry wa- inimli ately regained and tin invaders wtfg repul" d On th' heights of the Mens-, wher--he German attack has been Iths tronrest. the Fren li are holding their gronrd. but th Germans hav- sn eeded in maintaining their position--on the w-st bank of th rlvrr Wir less ad-.!'! from H'-rlin dxlai that the German have s ilenced th- fort -south of Vrrilnn on the Meusc Th- kaiser s general staff claims to iiav. repulsed with inferior numbers the at tack on the right Tank near th -Somme river. Near Helms attack" and counternt tacks have been In ingres along the trenches of the opposing armies, and In the fighting around St Oiientin the French and English have not yet sue ceded in dislodging th Germans or In advancing to the railroad line French troops surrounded nnd an nihilated the One Hundredth regimen of German reserves approximately S.nOO men according to a Rome dis patrh to the Exchange Telegraph p did r.ot give the place or dat Claims Made by Germans. Ixndon, Sept 2 -Messages which COMBATANTS RUINS OF in-m Euioi.. snn:i id a f the appearance of Ixuvain after the de an city by the Germans. Tin main picture shows tin- students' quarter le is Coim-rd-- where wert mattx' hole Is .u.d cafes. con:e mm tlemiati sources MITJ r ports which aro diametricali Ihfl op posite of the fere-going. These sa that the flanking movement of the al . IIm oh tin German right wing have ' faild and that the battle ther. has con- to a standstill Tln-s rm-ss.tK s .i. tln-rc has beer no lighting on the CM titer, hut tlia tin German Ml has taken Varc-nnes. at tacked the fort to the south of Ver dun. and repulsed sorties fron: VcuMaa I and Toul The Germans are said to be U m Larding tin- towns of Troy on les-Paroche s Camp des Kornau. ami Lionville II rlMsj) Ir aiso is r iainn-d t h; t French troops in French Lorraine and uu the horde r of Alsace have been repulsed. Sometr ng Must Give Way Soon. Ixmdon. Sept. 27. - Almost simulta neously the two great hammer strokes in the battle in northern France have fallen and some decisive result must be announced before long. The allies have struck the G. rraan titht wing and the Germans, on their ; rt haH hurled themselves ap.iinst the Fr t;ch line between Verdun and Toul. The commencement of these two at tacks in earnest was disclosed by the French official statement issued this afternoon, but little is told of how they are progressing. The action against the German right is described as a violent one. In which the French left encountered an army corps composed of troops which the Germans brought from the center of Lorraine and the Vosges The clash occurred in the district between Tergnier and St. Quentin, so thta the allies have made a consider able advance to the northwest since the last mention was made of this part of their army The French report admits that the German have succeeded in gaining a footing on the Meuse heights and have pushed forward in the direction of St. Mihiel. bombarding the forts of I'a röche and the Roman Camp, which face each other across the Meuse The communication, however, adds that, on the other hand, to the south of Verdun the French remain masters of the heights of the Meuse and that their troops, debouching from Toul. have advanced in the region of Heau mont Little Newt From Berlin. DJ1 Hg, via London. Sept ff, The following announcement, dated See leather .'t. has been given out at armv headquarters: in the western theater of the war today there have been mum minor engagements, but nothin of impor tance has transpin d There is no news from Kelgium or the eastern war area." Allies Gain Ground. On the Hattle Front. Sepi The tiernian offensive was extremely vie orous today at the western end of the long line stretching along the rivers (MM AMM and Woev re The allied tro ps. rvhose gaps had been filled with freshly arrived r,. etiiorcements. not only repeatedly thrust back the masses of C.-tmans thrown against them but eventuallv carr-.d out a successful counter -attack which resulted In the gaininjc of Nge Ml rable gro.ind and the ggfsthn gf I'eronne. about which town the Merc I M eti.ieetnent occurred Many Germans Near Reims Further toward the east, near BgfTf an Mac on the Aisne north of Helms, there appears to be concentrated a lari:- Herman force which hasi stolidly occupied strong intrenchm nta from which it is most difficult to dislodce them Hereabouts the fighting has been of a desultory' chararter. with, however, slight advantage in favor of the allies The men of both armies in this vicinity seem to be enjoving their rest. On the eastern wing the Germans LOUVAIN ae throwing enoroMMM masses of men Igatoal tin- French troops protecting tin- line of d f. nsiv. n rts above Ver dun, but up to the present their ef forts, although costltiu Immense sac : LAeeg, have been vain and the French line remains intact. GENERAL NEWS OF THE WAR Canadian Troops on the Way. The major part of Canada s latest contingent of ::2,ihK men for service in Kurope is already on Its way to the front In N transjiorts heavily armed and guarded lv Hritisii men-of-war in sufficient force to prevent any attack by Herman cruisers. German Captive List Cut. The Central Newa Agen y at Lon don has received the following dis patch from Rome. 'A message from Kerlln says the general staff, having agreed to the complete official lists of prisoners, has found it necessary to admit that the total already an nounced was erroneous The aggro gate number of pffjMMMN in German hands Is now reduced from ZMjftt to r.0.000. of whom 30,000 are Rus sians." Belgians Capture Germans. Tin- Rotterdam Courant says that lielgian troops are showing at many places from which they have long been absent. Two thousand Germans were captured, it fays, on September 23 between Malines and Aershut. Two hundred officers umong them will be kept at Antwerp The remainder of the prisoners will no to England. Italy already ha nearly li- hun dred thousand men under arms The majority are camped in Iombardy U. S. Envoy Escapes Bombs. The latest exploit of the German air fore. M nearly created vacancies in the I'nlted States diplomatic service. A Taube aeroplane.-profiting by the autumnal haxe, flew unpen-eived over Paris Sunday morning until It was nearly above Eiffel tower. As It reached this point it dropped a bomb which fell in the Avenue du Trocs dero. making a hole in the macadam roadway In exploding it killed an aged solicitor and severely wounded his granddaughter walking home with him from church. The spot where the bomb exploded was '00 yards from the chancellery of the American embassy. Ambassador Heriick and Arthur H. Fraxier. the second secretary of the embassy, walked over the spot where the bomb exploded at 10 lO on their way to the t hancellcrv, ami returning In an open motor car. passed over the same point at IT 10. thereby missing the bomb by five minutes. Russians Occupy Przemysl. The Russians are In Prxemysl. ac Gonttasj to a dispatch rsjQgtVgl at lon don from Petrograd The Austrian enrrison has len obliged to concen trate exclusively In the eastern forts and. with the irlutnplianf entrance of tin- ftusMans. into the city llself :rcat numbers of Inhabitants followed the Austrian soldiers and took refuge in the forts. For tho rnrrlson to hold for many da's is considered almost a military impo: slhility. The Russians have captured the city of Rggggfgw, The lhie from Prremvsl to Cracow Is now helieved to be almost. If not quite undefended, and the Russian problem for the present is merelv a problem of rapid marchinr and main taining a constant following of supply trains from the northeast. Tells of German Casualties. An oiicial report, issued at Herlin. sjhsgg the total Cerman casualties--killed, wounded and missing to date as 104,589. A list JuM Issued an nounces 10..-.2T casualties In addition to hose previously reported The tabulation of the figures covers nearly four columns In the Herliner Tag blalt The total casualties In clude Killed. 1M74: wounded. N -90S; missing. 23.O0T. GEN. FRENCH TELLS HOW IMS HAVE FACED GIANT GERMAN GUNS London. The official press bureau Issued -i report from K Id Marshal Sir John Kreuch' head'iartr on the Hntisli operationa in France The text follows: 1 lie i nein) is mi 11 1 n i titutn tug him self along the whole front and In order to do so is throwing n tu the. t.ght de Uu hii.'iiiK composed of urlt from the diffi n-ut formatlottü. Hie active army reserve, ai d la'.d. rlir. is shown by the gg I ft H MM of tin pi -oners recently cap) tired (hjr progress, although slow on nc coiii.' of the -tretigth f the defensive position against which i are pushing. has in certalu direct I fcgg eOBtlS ous, but the present batÜfl may well List for some days kgpre before a de- j cision Is reached, aim it now approximate- pearly to sit irfare Th.- tie: .-ia:.-. are n.aking --Pe of searchlight.- this fact coupled with I t!n-tr great strength In heavy artillery, leac's to the sti ppSJgJUlMI that they are ! employiui; i n'. r :al w ! Ii n n Iiav . ' been collet t.d tor tin- . le-. of Paris Confident of Dm Result 'The nature of tin- g. ssggj situation j gfter the operations of the eighteenth. ! nineteenth ami tWfjM th. an not be better suinmarie I th a as expressed recently in a neighbor! .g 1': . a h c-oin- mander to his corps: Having repuls r-p- uu ! and lolent unter uttacks made by the tUMKf, ' have a Ihgltef that we have been n'"rious So far as the Hrit;- ar oncerned. j the course of events during these three : daya can be dedcrib'd :i a lew words i Imring Fruiay. eighteenth, artillery fire was kept up inter: ittentlv by both . tides during dayligh' At night the German' counter atta ned certain por tions of our line, support tag the ad ' xance of their in fan' rj as always by a heavy bcmbar.ltn. Bg4 Um strokes were not l.livered th great vigor i and ceasc-1 about - i dav's fighting an til I Third artr.y ct.- -Irg low n a Gern. a: "News was Pgeglvec of PVsgSOll cavalry I . of the railway to t! least temporarily, cr eation which is of i in iMring the aft gun of the eeded in bring- ti ; -me. ilso that a body lemolished part : irth line c artlri cutting, at c onuuuni- ar import auce to the enem German Atta Stopped I On Saturday, bombardment wa in "is at gg tiro Intermittently ui.-l guns Some of tin from cover, appor tion of attacking, b fire they retired was um -ventfui. I of the artill-ry. w1 normal routine ra "Another hos' brought down by av :.it' r- niin loohttk the 1 imeci !y the Ger- ' !.! continued! real) from our advanced itly with the int u on i oniing under M : tag the day pt for the activity j oh is a matte r of r than an event. aeroplane was -. and one of our D dropping several bombs over the i. nan line, one in r -.diary bomb fi ng with consider- : able effect on a I an sport park near La Fere. "A buried More of the enemy's ammunitions ot u , - .tuu was found not far Irou the All ten wagon loads of live shells and t w agons of rable 1 being dug up. Tr . of large igggtllli -been burned all t as far back as retirement was hun "There was n the day. aoCOSB rain This mllit.; reconnaissance Several Gerrra- "On Sunday, the of imjwirtain e en noon, when th. clouds and an shine, which were discovered of stores haxing ling to show thai isne the German ed. ong wind during d by a driving . against the aerial Attacks Fait. 'wentieth. nothing rc until the after is a break in the val of feeble sun- enough to war:: The Germans fa I advantage of this brief spell of lac weather to make v ral attacks ai These were all I the enemy, but 1 1 by us were by i 'in one sectioi, occupants of the the impression tl tarv band in th fore hc at'ack known that tin started their ad Ing "The offensi. points was rt greater auccese si"i.ince nattir: fantry In sp; hnv been dri IMM different pomts ulsed w Ith loas to casual! ie incurred j .cans ngnt. f our firing line the renches were under ' tht heard a mill nniv's line Just be v eloped. It is now German infantry ,re with bands play against one or two d at dusk, with no !'he brunt of the re has fallen on the in f the fact that they i cd to the skin for their trenches have i water, and In spite : ighi alarms and the us bombardment to been subjected, they islon been r ady for try when the latter ault. and hev have some days ai : . ! deep in t of the lncessa ajasoal contn Which they ha have' otj every the enemy's lnf attempted t" b- iten them b k with great loss. In deed, the slgV of troops coming up has hot i a positiv, reih f after long, trying hours of Inac n under shell lire. Gerr-an c-.nnon Fire Fails. "The o - the grea' proportion of artillery the Germans employ is to beat down the resistance of their enemy by con trat, d and prolonged fire- to shatt - their nerve with high explosives hgflgSj the Infantry attack Is launched. I hey seem to have re lied on doing this with us. but they h.-ve not di,- ., 'hough it has taken them several costly experiments to discover th' facL "From state tnents) of prisoners it ap pears that th have been greatly dis appointed by the moral effect pro duced by their heavy guns, which, de spite the actual losses inflicted, bss not been s all commensurate with the culossal xH-uditure of ammunition Ii h ha be u wasted Ity this li Is not Implied that thet artillery Are Is not good It i tvoi than good It la . . MenL Rut th Rrltlsh soldier I a dHhYult peis.u i impress or depress, even by untre sh Us filled with a high ggplo which detonate with terrific vioi ., .. and form craters lurge enough lu us graA M tor five horses. Scoff at German Shells Tbe German howltger shells ax from eight to nine Inches In rgHti and on impact the send up columns or greaoy black smoke. On accou of this they are trr veiently duhb. I Voal boxes.' black Marias. or 'Ja- hl.soiis bv tli, vn ' Men who lake i'ni.gh In this sp I are, it seems. Itholj to throw out I calc ulations based no loos of gsoral o caicfulh framed by the Germ military philosophers. "A coi'sidi rable amount of Infonrtu tlon has been gleaned from prison., It hjgg been gatlier-d that our bog batdm -nt on the Iftoggttk produced gn-at nnpressioi. t.. ep:;non also reisori.-d that our Inrantry makes sue good use of the grout.d that the Ger man companies are dec imated by our rifle fire before tin- soldier ran be s en. '"From an ottlc al diry rapt ired b the First army corp- it appears that me of tie German c rps contains an extraordinary mixture of units. If the composition ot tin- other corps is sh liar it may be assumed that the pre MM cfhYienc-v (f the enem.Vs forces I in no way comparable with what f was when the war commune Gero ans Lose M.-ny Officers. "The looses in offii ers are acte i having been esp c : !ly severe. A hr gade Is statt d t. 1 i i)iii:nancled b major; nome coi.ipanie ,,( foot guard 1 by one year voluntrs. while after the j battle of Montmfrail one regimen logt j fifty-live out of sixty officers "The pglgOMffl recently captured a j predate the fact that ibe march i Paris has failed and that their fori - - are retra(ing. but state that t'n- oh . J ct of this movement is oxpl i I I by the officers as being to withdraw into closer tone), with the supports I which have staed too far In the rear "The officers are also endeavor!' r to encourage the troops by tellirr them that they will bv at home I I Christmas A large number of t' men believe that they are beati n "Among tin .t ms of news are the following: Recently a pilot and ob server of the Koyal Hying corps were forced by a breakage in their aero plane to descend in the enemy's lines. The pilot managed to pancake his ma chine down to earth and the two ee raped Into some thick undergrowth In the woods. " The esnemy c ame up and seized and smashed the machine, but did not search for our men with much zeal. The latter lay hid till dark and then found their way o the Aisne. across which they swam, reaching camp In safety but barefooted. "Numerous flcafing bridges hrv- I now beer, thrown across the Aisne .md some of the ermanent bridges ha'. -been repaired under fire On tin twentieth Lieutenant (name deleted of Third signal corps. Koyal Kngineer was unfortunately drowned while at tempting to swim acros-t the river with a cable- in order to open up fresh fc-lc-graj h coMMMrfSOtt I Ml 'he -, h Telephone Aid to Spies. "Espionage is still carried on by Q enemy to a considerable extent. He cently the suspiciona of some of the French troops were aroused by com hardly powerful i ing across a farm from which th ho soaking troops j horses had been removed After some search they discovered a telephone which was connected by an under ground cable with the German lines, and the owner of the farm paid the penalty in the usual way In war for his treachery. "After some cases of village fight ing. which occurred earlier In the war. It was rejiorted b some of our offi cers that the Germans had attempted to approach to close quarters by fore Ing prisoners to march in front of thtn. The Germans have recent! re prated the same trick on a larger scale against the French, as l - wn by the copy of an order issued r the French officials It la therein referred to as a ruse, hut if that term ran b- accepted it is a distinctly illegal ruse CHarges Tncks to Germans. " 'During a re-cent night attack.' the order reads, the Go-mans drove a col umn of French prisoners In front of them. This action Is to be brought to ".he notice of all our troops, 1 1 in order to put them on their guard against such a dastardly ruse. 2i m order that every soldier may know hov. the CtaTMOgO treat their prison . Onr troops must not forget that If thex allow th"me1ves to be k n prisoners the Germans will not fan to expo -e h in to French bullets.'" "Further evidence hss now been col lect.'d of the misuse of the white flag and other signs of surrender. "During recent fighting, also. Ger nan ambulance wagons advanced In order to collect the wonnded An or der to cease fire was consequently giv en to our guns, which were firing c.o this particular section of ground The German bafte-rv commanders at once took advantage of the lull In the ac tion to climb up their observation lad ders and on to a haystack to locate our guns, which soon sfterwards came under a far more accurate flr than any to shich tbey had been sub jected up to that Use."