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THE WASHINGTON TBIES: FRIDAY; SEPTEMBER 25, 1914. CLIP THIS COUPON WAR ATLAS COUPON This coupon and 15 cents presented at The Times Office entitles you to a copy of The Wash ington Times WAR ATLAS. Or sign your name and address below and mail to the War Atlas Dept., The Washington Times. If ordered by mail add one cent for postage. auxiliary cruiser Kronprinz Wilhcln. The Indian Prince was a vessel of l.rTo I tons, and called from Hio Janeiro on I August 2." for Port of Spain and New York. t my continues his bombardment of t Mouse forts, but they aro malnta'n 1 their defense. On Hie whole, the situation shows a f iOy Improvement from our stand I nt The enemy is heavily lntrench e. but at no point on tho left or center s he been able to assume the offen- e The morale of our armies Is ex- eit " lie army of Gen. Von Boehm, vhich i holds the extreme German right, is ntered at Moris and holds the main xculur highway that extends through alenclennes. Cambral to St. Quentln. The French hold Peronne, but they e under constant attack from the fermans. who are in forcp directly to o oast or that town and west of Ver- and and Rolsel. Begin New Movement. The emphasis which all official re irts place on the fact trwt the Ger an Are line now included not only the Tidtvehr but also complete regiments of e reserve. Is considered significant. It held to mean that the German first my the Kaiser's wonderful fighting 'aehTne has now been so badly cut up at the praps in its line have had to be od up from the secondary forces, id that as a result, the fighting will t at legist n portion of Its fierceness. Reports direct from the front today j'ed that It was again raining In the r,h and that the small snow squalls ntmue In the Vosges regions. The German army commanded by ths jwn prince Is reported to have sue eded in occupying Varennes, on the re river, almost directly west of Ver- n. This movement, it is believed, was prevent the French forces relieving enlun, which has nowbeen under siege ore than ; week. It Is emphatically led at headquarters, however, that this movement tho French center s been broken Instead, it Is Je- ii red to be as solid as ever, and It Is serted that another movement is al- ady In progress which will have ini- rtant results In the near future. mantling the Eighth German army corps, was sentenced to three 'weeks' imprisonment for falling to register under the new aliens act. It nppears the baroness, who was se cretly married In London, In 1909, hesi tated to register, fearing If the news of her marriage reached Berlin, the Kaiser m7S:t -cashier her husband for marrying beneath her. Coat of Mail Fails To Save Von Moltke Jail Term Reveals Baroness' Romance OXDOX. Sept. IB. A hidden romance js brought to light in a sordid London police court, when the Baroness Thomp on Xeuberg, whose husband Is com- PARIS. Sept. 25. The son of Cbn it Von Moltke. tho German chief of sta;I, whose death was announced Thursday, was killed In the bnttle of Esterny, ac cording to La. Liberie today. Young Vcn Moltke -wore, a coat of mall beneath his tunic, but the top of his head was blown off by a shell. For several days before the battle he lived In the local Presbytery. Several times dally, it was said, he would point his revolver at the priest's head, threaten ing to shoot him at the slightest sign of treachery. When he ate Von Moltko always had his pistol on the table within easy reach, and guards were posted at all the doors and windows of his bedroom while he slept. Belgium Spurns Another Peace Offer, Is Report ANTWERP. Sept. 23. The foreign of fice eays Germany has approached Bel gium with another offer of peace terms. uul mai iving .aipcri nas aennitely re fused to consider them. It Is announced the German, troops who are massed In the north between Antwerp and Brussels have been at tacked by a strong force of Belgians, The Belgians won the victory and took f00 prisoners and three guns. British Sea Prisoners Landed at Santos, Brazil LOXDOX, Sept. 25. A news agency dispatch from Rio Janeiro says the Gor man steamer Prussia has landed the master and fifteen members of the crew of the British steamer Indian Prince at Santos. The Indian Prince was sunk off the South American coast by the German ROME. Sept. 25. That Germanv lias askeil permission to move her troops across Switzerland and haa been refused by that government, is the report re ceived here from Basel. Italy has been notified of the request, and Is snld to be In readiness to protect the neutrality of her neighbor. Swiss Legation Doubts Neutrality Is Menaced Swlt7-rland has received actual recent assurancw from both Germany and Franco that her neutrality will not bo violated. It was stated at the Swiss legation this afternoin. Officials refuse to believe reports that Germany asked permission of the re public to -send troops overland Into France. It was stated that because. pf the recent deSnito assurances from Germany and France that troops will not bo moved across the border. Swit3-. crland Is confident that no moves will be mado on her territory. Basketful of Tags Tells War's Woe Little Round Discs All That Remain of Germans Who Were Hurled Against the Rock and Steel Fortifications of Liege. Pope Pius X Blessed French Army Monks BORDEAUX. Sept 25. One of the last acts of tho late Pop Plus, says La XJberto, was to give his blessing to tho Capuchin monks who are fighting In the ranks of the French army. The superior general of the monks, who obtained tho blessing of the Pope, Is Father Venance, in civil life Paul Dodo, who was an old schoolmate of President Polncare at the Nancy high By KARL H. VON WIEGAND. LIEGE, Sept. 6. (By courier via Maastricht and Rotterdam to New York) Here, where the tide of Ger man advance for a time dashed on the rock and steel of Belgian forts, I saw something which affected me far more than any of the sorrows of war I had yet encountered. It was a good-sized basketful of metal tags, under careful guard at military headquarters. "They are all that is left of 'Unser Braven Yunge' (our brave boys) who fell in and around Liege their identification mark," -said the officer. I asked permission to examine one. It was a small tin tag with two holes for the string or ribbon. A large number was stamped on it, and below the number of the regiment. The comparison is grotesque, and much out of place, but the tag was much like some dog license tags that I have seen. REPRESENTS HUMAN LIFE. Only 778 Enlisted Men Saved From 3 Cruisers IX)KDON, Sept. 25. It was announced at the admiralty today that only 7TS of the enlisted men on the armored cruisers sunk by a German submarine on Tuesday were rescued. They were divided as follows: From tho Hogue, 854; from the Abou Wr. 23C: from the Cressy, 1SS. Submarine U-9 Safe In a German Port Now LONDON, Sept. 25. Submarine TJ-9, which destroyed the three British cruis ers. Is reported to have arrived safely at a German port. Lieutenant Weddlngscn, the command er of the submarine. Is snld to have re turned from a sjiort honeymoon when he embarked on the perilous voyage In quest of the scouts of the British navy. This little metal tag, then, that I held In my hand, represented a human life. It was the "remains" all that was left of that life of that husband, father, or brother. It was the monu ment and) at tho same time., the metallic) tag and number of a human life In the' Indexed catalogue of an army of human lives. Just a metal tag with a num-i ber! 1 gazed nt it long and earnestly. l wondered If It had registered tho ctno-i tlons, the hopes, the fears, the love, the) sorrow, the yearning to fight for homo; and fatherland, the last thoughts ofi luvcd ones like a phonographic record' of the life that ebbed away through the little hole made by rifle or torn by shell. Nothing I have so far seen in! the path of wnr, not even the stench j of bodies In Fort Loncln, or burned and snot-rluuieu nouses, so impressed me as that little metal tag. I laid It down reverently. It was or hnd been a life. Lie In Long Trenches. This afternoon I saw the "rest" of that tag nnd many others like It rath er, the place where that "rest" or re mainder of that tag was. Between the forts Barchou and Evegnes It was, in the trenches where the Belgians received the Germans with a murderous fire when they stormed those two forts the first that fell thereby getting an en trance Into the city. It was hero that these men went down like grass before the scythe. The Germans had come on nothing could stop them thoy seemed to go to their death gladly, as one Belgian re marked to me. The Belgian trenches now are filled and leveled. 1 could hardly find them, even with a guide. They were -filled with the fallen. Ono grave was nbout 60 feet long. Another W or 90. Here Is where the metal tags were gathered. Each man and officer wears one around his neck. That of the prl. vate Is usually a tag with a number corresponding with the number opposite his name on his company and reirlmental rolls. Many also have the number of the regiment on the tag. The tags of the officers usually aro or aluminum, and besides the. number have tho name and rank, sometimes also the home adress. Some of the privates also have replaced mo common tin tajj wiin an aluminum one purchased by themselves at 30 cents each, upon which Is stamped name nnd address nnd regiment, besides tho required number. After the battle, when the Germans find their dead, the collar on each shirt Is opened, tho string cut, and the tag taken and sent to headquarters for Iden tification. Thcro the books are opened and "fallen," together with the placo of the fight or .battle. Is written opposite tV name and number of tho dead sol dier. Rank Forgotten In Death. At Liege, probably for tho first time in German wars, death obliterated dis tinction In rank. For the first time so far ns I can learn, German officers and common soldiers were burled In the same trenches. It Ins always been the rule a sort of unwritten law-that every fallen afflcer snould have a separate grave and not no bin 1?I the common trench. To a large extent this Is still done, especially with off'cers of higher rank than cap- in. nut tho unprecedented mobllitv and rapid advance of tho German army """ "cisium anu trance made this ex tremely difficult. A noncommissioned officer a volun teer, fifty-eight years of age who com munard a burial squad at Liege, told mo there was not tlmo to take much tialns In burying. Tho tags are now re moved from the fallen, tho watch money, etc.. taken to be sent to the relatives, the bodies uniform and all wrapped with their blankets and laid In rows side by side in the trench. The Tallen of the enemy are not bur led In the same trench, but are placed together In separate trenches. Even in death there shall be no brotherhood be tween those who fought and took one another's lives. Tho uniforms aro taken from tho bodies of the enemy's fallen and laid on top of the grave as a means of Identification to friends. If th'.-y wear tags they are removed. The officer with whom I talked slid that tho many separate graves of offi cers, as ii been shown after 1S70. proved troublesomo to land owners. It has been decided, therefore, wherever thought best, to bury officers with their men. Clean Up Battlefields. One of the features of tho German side of a battlefield In this war is the thorough manner In which the Ger mans "clean up" the field after a bat tle. It Is not only tho natural seno of "orderliness" which Is so characte--Istlc of the German character, but there Is method and purpose. That Is, the battlefield shall reveal no tales. It shall glvo nothing from which a conclusion can bo drawn as to losses or any other Information. .Everything is removed as if a ragpicker had gone over the field. There Is little trace of graves from the size of which conclu sion might bo drawn as to the number burled. The future belongs to the liv ing, not the dead, seems to be the motto. KAISER CM WEATHER REPORT.1' OF DOCTOR RHEPOH T LONDON, Sept. 23. From several points the news was received todaythat the Kaiser is under tho care of the Im perial physician, suffering from a severe cold. . The correspondent of the Chronicle, wiring from Geneva, says the Emperor spent a long time In the trenches near Verdun, and was thoroughly drenched by rain. He failed to change his clothing, and was later forced to remain In bed while his physicians took steps to prevent an attack of pneumonia. Th forecast for the DIstrist of Co lumbia Cloudy tunlcht; Saturday fair; continued rool. Maryland Cloudy tonight; Saturday fair: cocilnued csol; ir.ouelatc north to northwest winds. Virginia Cloudy tonight: probably rain In southeast portion; Saturday fair; strong northeast shifting to northwest winds. TEMPERATURE. The temperature today as registered at the United States Weather Bureau ana AmecK s: U. S. BUREAU. 8 a. m 57 9 a. m SS 10 a. m 59 11 a. m 59 12 noon '63 1 p. m 64 AFFLECK'S. 8 a. m (o 9 a. m 62 10 a. m 65 11 a. m 67 12 noon. 71 P t TIDE TABLE. High tide 12:15 a. m. Low tides 6:30 a. m. and 6:35 p. m. DTstfiictrvety IndrvT&laE Second German Paper Suppressed by Army AMSTERDAM. 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