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when the deep snows'come.
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GRANT COUNTY HERALD. LANCASTER. WISCONSIN. OCTOBER 28. 1214.
GERMANS BREAK
THROUGH ALLIES;
YSER 15 CROSSED
French Admit Teutons Advance
Toward Dunkirk.
OSTEND SHELLED BY SHIPS
Submarine Attack Is Repulsed—4o,ooo
Re-Enforce Kaiser’s Men in Bel
gium—lnvaders Said to Have
Lost 10,000 in Fight.
London, Oct. 26. —The allies’ line of
defense in the battle of Flanders has
been broken by the Germans advanc
ing toward the coast, and a large force
of the invaders has effected a crossing
of the Yser canal between Nieuport
and Dixmude, directly east of Dunkirk.
The force is believed to be part of
the 400,000 troops rushed to the front
by the Germans from the garrisoned
positions at the rear of the fighting
line. They are reported to have ar
rived just in time to turn the retreat
which the French war office claimed
Saturday into a victory. Both the
French and German official statements
tell of the advance of the Germans
across the Yser and describe the bat
tle which preceded it as a furious one.
As to the fighting in the vicinity of
Lille and Ypres, the war offices are not
in corresponding accord, the Germans
claiming to have advanced slowly
after heavy fighting, while the French
say the attacks south and west of Lille
were repulsed.
Contradictory reports are also re
ceived of the fighting in the Argonne
forest, where admittedly a great battle
has been raging during the past week.
The French claim to have wiped out a
regiment of German infantry, while the
German war office says its troops ad
vanced and captured several machine
guns, besides shooting down two
French aeroplanes.
Attack German Submarine.
London. Oct. 26.—Bombardment of
Ostend by the British vessels, which
are no longer required to aid the left
flank of the Belgian line resting on
the coast, was begun ini earnest. Their
target was the German batteries about
Ostend, but one of six shells which fell
short of the range struck the Hotel
Majestic, as here the German staff was
dining, according to a dispatch to the
Amsterdam Telegraaf. Several other
buildings were damaged.
Recapture of Ostend by the Allies is
imminent, as the advance column of
Belgians, relieved of the pressure
against it by the change of the Ger
man front in the direction of Dixmude,
is reported to have made remarkable
progress. It is now ready to strike at
the remaining German forces at Os
tend in the rear while the British ships
are bombarding from the sea.
From Oostburg, Netherlands, a dis
patch tells of heavy firing heard in the
direction of Ostend, which was rapidly
increasing in volume. Strong forces
of troops in several columns are
marching from Bruges in the direction
of Ostend for the pui jose of re-enforc
ing the inadequate German garrison at
that point.
Contrary to previous published re
ports, Roulers is declared still to be in
the hands of the Germans.
Submarine attacks on the British
and French ships operating between
Nieuport and Ostend are incessant.
The attack was foiled by the discov
ery of the German submarines’ pres
ence within striking distance of a
British cruiser by a British aeroplane,
which drooped a projectile near the
point where the submarine’s periscope
had cut the surface of the water.
At the same time a warning was sig
naled to the British ship, which, how
ever, had already scented the danger
and a shell was fired into the water.
The shot was without result except
that the operations of the submarine
■were interrupted.
Germans Re-Enforced.
Fresh German troops numbering in
the neighborhood of four hundred thou
sand are being hurried from Germany
by way of Antwerp and Bruges to the
fighting line in the vicinity of Dix
mude, where the full strength of the
German attack is being directed
against the allied line in the north.
Here the Germans are making the
supreme effort of the Belgian cam
paign and are massing troops for a
final attack which will mark the cli
max of the battle of Flanders, the
greatest in the history of the war.
As soon as the German re-enforce
ments arrive on the line they are
hurried into the trenches, which are
waist deep in water.
One spectacular feature of the fight
ing of the past two days was a bay
onet charge by the Belgians during
a fog. The troops of King Albert,
creeping forward close to the German
trenches, suddenly leaped forward and
captured a strong detached body of
Germans without firing a shot, al
though the fighting wdth the bayonet
was of the most ferocious and deadly
character.
Ihe attack is being centered upon
Dixmude, well to the south of the
coast line, to escape the long range
guns of Admiral Hood’s flotilla of
British monitors and the squadron of
British and French battleships oper
ating on the coast and in the chan
nels of the Yser canal.
Belgians retire From Canal.
Paris, Oct 26. —The Germans in a
furious counter-attack directed against
the positions of the Belgian troops
along the Yser succeeded in crossing
the river between Dixmude and Nieu
port, forcing the Belgians to retire.
Fighting of the most severe charac
ter raged along the front from Nieu
port to the River Lys, a distance of 30
miles.
Offsetting this advantage gained by
the enemy in the battle, which ad
mittedly is of the greatest importance
of any thus far in tne war, the French
troops in the Woevre region gained a
signal success by securing control of
one of the enemy’s most important
lines of communication. The French
heavy artillery, according to the mid
night official bulletin of the war office
in Bordeaux, now holds under the
sweeps of its guns the road which con
nects Thiaucourt, Nonsard, Brussels
and Joinville, one of the principal
lines of communication of the Ger
mans toward St. Mihiel.
Artillery Duel Progresses.
About Lille the battle continued
with undiminished fury, the Germans
directing a series of desperate attacks
against the hastily intrenched posi
tions of the advancing French and
British troops in an effort to stem
their progress, but were repulsed
with heavy losses.
An artillery duel of vast propor
tions and great significance is being
fought to the northwest of Soissons
and upon the heights in the region
of Craonne. In the Argonnes the al
lies’ positions are being maintained
with unquestioned success.
Three German batteries were de
stroyed during the fighting on the up
per Meuse.
By C. F. BERTELLI.
10,000 Germans Slain.
Paris. Oct. 26. —Fearful slaughter of
the Germans in the Argonne region
during last week was recorded in a
letter from a French officer published
here. The letter reads:
“One infantry regiment and a bat
talion of chasseurs was strongly in
trenched with the mission of holding
an important strategic highway. At
midday four German columns, num
bering 15.000 men. stormed the
trenches with the bayonet.
“We had five quick-firing gun sec
tions and simultaneously all of them
spurted their fire into the German
mass, which rocked beneath Hie de
vastating fusillade. It was horrible
to see them fall in solid masses.
Germans Unstaggered.
“The speed of our quick firing guns
was 600 shots a minute, and under
the incessant firing they grew white
hot.
Unstaggered by the awful carnage,
the Germans still came on in solid
formation. We had no need to take
aim, but just plugged into this mass,
certain that every shot told.
“We were unable, howrever. to stem
the Teutonic flood. The enemy reached
our trenches and a hand-to-hand bay
onet encounter ensued.
“This phase of the battle lasted
for five hours. Then our artillery got
to work and the Germans retreated.
But they charged again, and their
loss was so frightful that a solid line
of dead one mile long was piled up
400 yards from our trenches.
“Their total losses were placed at
a minimum of 10,000.’’
(This story is borne out by a para
graph in the French official state
ment to the effect that an entire Ger
man regiment was annihilated in a
battle in the Argonne.)
■FUND FOR COTTON LOANS
Federal Reserve Board Reaches a Ten
tative Agreement to Care for
Surplus Crop.
Washington, Oct. 26.—After weeks
of negotiation between bankers and
members of the federal reserve board
a tentative agreement was reached
which the board practically approved,
by which a fund of $135,000,000 will be
raised to take care of the surplus cot
ton crop and extend aid to the cotton
producers. The plan is slightly differ
ent from that originally proposed, but
loans will be made on cotton at six
cents per pound bearing interest at
not more than six per cent. Loans
will be for one year with a privilege of
six months extension. The reserve
board will have direct supervision of
the fund, but probably will operate
through a committee of bankers and
business men.
Washington, Oct. 26. —A flood of
gold will pour over the country with
in the next three weeks.
Secretary McAdoo announced that
the gigantic federal reserve bank sys
tem would open on November 16. With
the 12 banks thrown open more than
four hundred million dollars, the sec
retary says, will be released from the
mints and made available to the coun
try’s bankers.
OPERATE ON A ROCKEFELLER
Son of William Rockefeller Reported
Resting Comfortably and Re
covery Is Expected.
New York, Oct. 26. —William G.
Rockefeller, son of William Rocke
feller, underwent an operation in the
Presbyterian hospital. He was re
ported as comfortable and his early re
covery is expected. Mr. Rockefeller
is forty-three years old. He married
a daughter of James Stillman, head of
the National City bank.
Emperor Francis Joseph 111.
Vienna, via Rome, Oct. 26. —Emperor
Francis Joseph is severely troubled
with asthma. His sleeplessness and
increasing weakness, coupled with de
pression, are causing much apprehen
sion.
NO GARMAN VERDICT
JURY FAILS TO AGREE AFTER
THIRTEEN HOURS.
Doctor’s Wife Accused of Slaying
Mrs. Bailey May Be Released
on Bail.
Mineola, Oct. 26.—After 13 hours
and 15 minutes of the bitterest wrang
ling that the little Nassau county court
has ever known the jury in whose
hands the fate of Mrs. Florence Conk
lin Carman lay disagreed and was dis
charged.
The final and almost the first vote
was ten for acquittal and two for con
viction. The two men who throughout
the sleepless night stood out against
the popular cry for acquittal were Jo
seph H. Aston, manager for a publish
ing house of Port Washington, and
William G. Hovey, a salesman who oc
cupied chair No. 4 in the jury box.
The ten men who fought for Mrs.
Carman’s liberation combined in open
warfare against Aston and Hovey.
They threatened to throw Aston out of
the window, but he stood his ground,
defying them to carry out their threat.
It was said that they would have done
so had not Hovey, the rugged giant,
jumped to Aston's side and declared
that it would be necessary to throw
him out also. Five ballots wrere taken.
John J. Graham and George Morton
Levy, Mrs. Carman’s lawyers, will ap
peal for the relase of their client on
bail. District Attorney Smith, the only
man in the courtroom who looked
capable of standing on his feet when
the jury reported, says that he will of
fer no opposition and considers that
$20,000 will be sufficient.
By pure will power and refusal to
give way to her nerves. Mrs. Carman
sat through the dark night and chilly
dawn waiting for the verdict. She re
fused to lie down.
As Justice Kelby w r aved his hand
and dismissed the jury, Mrs. Carman’s
will collapsed. She crumbled like a
disappointed girl. Her body shook con
vulsively.
“I’m so disappointed,” she wept, “so
disappointed. I thought they would
send me home.”
TO REPAY STOCK BREEDERS
Governor of Indiana Agrees to Plan to
Reimburse Farmers for Animals
Killed in Fight on Disease.
Indianapolis, Oct. 26. —Responding
to a demand from live stock breed
ers of the state. Governor Ralston
agreed to a proposition of the depart
ment of agriculture that the state and
federal governments shall share in the
expense of compensating farmers
whose diseased stock is killed in the
effort to stamp out the contagious
foot and mouth disease.
The department of agriculture has
agreed to advance the money to
meet the expense, depending upon the
general assembly of Indiana, which
meets in January, to make an appro
priation to reimburse the federal de
partment.
The governor issued a proclamation
In which he describes the seriousness
of the situation, calls upon the county
commissioners of St. Joseph and La
porte counties to police their counties
to prevent the removal of any of the
herds of live stock which are infected
or exposed to the infection.
It is estimated that the live stock
which must be killed is valued at
SIOO,OOO. Besides paying half the
value of the animals to <be slaugh
tered the federal government will
meet all the expense of disinfection.
.1,500 MEN GUARD THE KAISER
Headquarters at Mezieres, France,
Like Thickly Populated Village—
War Lords His Neighbors.
London, Oct. 26. —It is semi-officially
announced in Petrograd, telegraphs
the correspondent of the Exchange
Telegraph company, that Emperor
Williams headquarters, which are
now in France, are so extensive as to
resemble a thickly-populated village.
The personnel amounts to about fif
teen hundred men, in addition to con
voy and many servants. Near the
house occupied by Emperor William,
the correspondent continues, are sta
tioned members of his war cabinet
and of the chief general staff. Doctor
von Bethmann-Hollweg, the imperial
chancellor, has joined the headquar
ters staff. According to dispatches
received in London from Copenhagen,
the German headquarters in France
are at present located at Mezieres, in
the department of Ardennes, 47 miles
northeast of Reims.
“BLANKET BALLOT LAW” VOID
Missouri Supreme Court Decides
Party Tickets Must Be Printed
on Separate Sheets.
Jefferson City, Mo., Oct. 26. —The
Missouri “blanket ballot law” was de
clared invalid by the Missouri supreme
court. Two of the seven judges dis
sented. As a result of this decision the
Missouri ballots will be printed on
separate sheets for each party.
Arrest Polish Prince in London.
London, Oct. 26. —Jean Sapieha-Ko
denski, a Polish prince, and his
nephew, Alexander, were arrested in a
West end fiat for having an undeclared
revolver and ammunition and a camera
In their possession. Ball was refused
and both were locked up.
CONGRESS ENDS
RECORDSESSION
Southerners Abandon Filibuster
for Cotton.
SPECIAL CALL IS EXPECTED
President Wilson May Convoke Bodies
in November to Meet Crisis Due
to War—Committee Is
Appointed.
Washington, Oct. 26. —Congress ad
journed for the session by unanimous
consent after having been in session
since April 7, 1913. Unless recon
vened in extraordinary session by
President Wilson to take care of some
emergency it will not reconvene until
December 7.
Adjournment was accomplished
through the passage of a concurrent
resolution ending the session at four
o’clock in the afternoon, but clocks
were turned ahead, actual adjourn
ment occuring at 3:22 and the senate*
at 3:27.
President Wilson was in Pittsburgh
when congress adjourned. He could?
not be officially notified by a commit
tee of the proposed action of the con
gress, and for the first time in the
history of this country, it is said, &
session closed finally during the ab
sence from the capital of the presi
dent. Before leaving last night the
president indicated that his final wort
to the senate and house w r as to ad
journ.
No Action on Cotton.
No legislation looking to the relief
of the cotton growers w r as enacted,
by congress before the adjournment.
The southern senators and members,,
holding congress in session by a fili
buster to get this relief, abandoned
hope of the legislation when it waa
certain that neither senate or house
could muster a quorum. They aban
doned dilatory tactics, but voted!
against the adjournment.
Representative Henry, leader of the
cotton men in the house, announced
that he had positive information that
congress would be reconvened in ex
traordinary session about the middle
of November by President Wilson.
The cotton relief legislation would
I then be brought forward.
With the return of President Wilson
i from Pittsburgh at night it became*
I known that predictions of an extra
i session in November were not
on his authority.
Special Cotton Committee.
The house authorized a special com*.
• mittee to study the needs of the cot
ton situation and report to congress
by December 16. Its members are
Representatives Mann, Austin and
Langely, Republicans; Henry, Lever,
Heflin and Bell. Democrats.
Mr. Mann said it might be impos
sible for him to undertake the work
and asked for time to give it consid
eration. The speaker urged him to
serve on the committee if possible-.
The breaking of the cotton filibuster
and agreement to abandon the at*
tempt to prevent the final adjourn*
ment was reached by the cotton rep
resentatives at a conference held in
the morning.
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia and
Representative Henry, the leaders*
yielded relunctantly. Each announced
that if he saw an opportunity to get
back to Washington a quorum of mem
| bers within the next two weeks he*
would not consent.
Clark Urges Adjournment.
1 Speaker Clark urged the cessation
of their activities on the ground that
; they might prejudice their claims for
assistance when congress shall reas
semble in December. Just before h®
let his gave] fall in the final adjourn
ment the speaker congratulated the*
southern leaders.
“This has been the longest and
most laborious session of the congress,
of the United States ever known. I
congratulate you on being able to
adjourn at last. In the words of ‘Little
Tim,’ God be with us every one.”
Representative Henry announced
that he had consented to the adjourn
ment with the understanding that so
soon as congress shall assemble,
whether for the regular session or in
extraordinary session in November,
the cotton relief legislation shall ba
brought up first of all as unfinished
business w r ith a vote pending on it®
passage. He said he believed the
passage of the legislation w’ould be
necessary then as now\
With 26 cotton representatives from.
Texas, Oklahoma, Georgia and South
Carolina, he voted against the resolu
tion for the final adjournment, but he
did not ask for a quorum, which was
not present. The vote for the resolu
tion was 56, making a total of 82 mem
bers present. Senator Hoke Smith of
Georgia and Senator West of Alabama
voted against the resolution in the
senate.
SIXTH CHILD FOR ALFONSO
Son Born to Queen Victoria of Spain*
Who Is Granddaughter of Late
British Woman Ruler.
Madrid, Oct. 26. —A son was born to
Queen Victoria of Spain. The queen
of Spain is a granddaughter of the
late Queen Victoria of England. The
son is her sixth child, the others being;
three sons and two daughters.
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