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GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2tl. IDM.
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NUMBER 39
VOLUME XLVIII
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WORD
ANTWERP
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Japanese Attack on Kiao
Chow Fails; Siege in Progress
Russian Troops are Routed
By Austrians at Krasnik
Allies, In Terrific Battle
Today, Repulse the Germans
ALLIES REPULSE GERMANS SAiSfi
01 SOUTHERN FRONTIER
(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS)
LONDON. AUG. 26-AUSTRIA OFFICIALLY DECLARED WAR ON
JAPAN AT 8 O'CLOCK THIS MORNING.
LONDON, AUG. 26 THE OFFICIAL PRESS BUREAU SAYS:
"IT IS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED THAT THE FRENCH ON THEIR
SOUTHERN FRONTIER WERE ATTACKED IN FORCE BY THE GER
MANS TODAY AND THE ATTACK WAS REPULSED. THE ENEMY RE
TIRED ALL ALONG THE LINE."
PARIS, AUG. 26 THE FRENCH WAR OFFICE WAS SILENT TODAY.
NO OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT WAS MADE.
THE UNOFFICIAL MILITARY NEWS IS THAT FIGHTING ALONG
THE FRENCH -BELGIAN FRONTIER CONTINUES FIERCELY.
QUIET CONFIDENCE EXISTS IN PARIS THAT THE ALLIES WILL
HOLD OFF THE GERMAN ATTACK AND TAKE THE OFFENSIVE WHEN
THE PROPER TIME SHALL ARRIVE.
LONDON. AUG. 26 A DISPATCH TO THE EXCHANGE TELEGRAPH
FROM PARIS SAYS THE FRENCH WAR OFFICE HAS ISSUED THE FOL
LOWING COMMUNICATION:
-IN LORRAINE THE ALLIED ARMIES HAVE TAKEN UP THE COM
BINED OFFENSIVE MOVEMENT.
"THE BATTLE RE-COMMENCED YESTERDAY IS STILL RAGING."
LONDON, AUG. 26 AN ANTWERP DISPATCH SAYS THE BELGIAN
OPERATIONS BEYOND MALINES CONTINUED LAST NIGHT.
THE BELGIAN FORCES DESTROYED THE GERMAN DEFENSIVE
WORKS.
BERLIN. AUG. 26 LIEUT. GENERAL PRINCE FREDERIC. OF SAX
EMRNGEN, WAS KILLED BY A SHELL BEFORE NAMUR AUG. 23.
LONDON, AUG. 26 THE APPROXIMATED DLaTH ROLL IN THE
FOUR DAYS' BATTLE:
ENGLISH, 2.800 DEAD: 6.000 WOUNDED.
BELGIANS, 6,000 DEAD; 8.000 WOUNDED.
GERMANS, 7.500 DEAD: 6.500 WOUNDED.
AUSTRORUSSO CAMPAIGN:
RUSSIANS, 25.00u DEAD: 30.000 WOUNDED.
AUSTRIANS, 21.000 DEAD: 20.000 WOUNDED.
RUSSIAN TROOPS ROUTED
ON CHICAGO MARKET
CHANGE OF TACTICS.
London, Aug. 26. A change of
tactics on the part of the All.es wi?
made last night. The French had j The Harue, Aug. 26,-An officii
. , . i r,. hattie-; ' report made public in Vienna and
three ines o? defense. In tne battles k
1 " ! received here today by telegraoh
of Monday and Tuesday, tne Ce--( of days tcn
m.ms cut through two of these lines',. Krasnik (Russian Poland), twenty
- M"".N,r "'rr::: rii,n";:iWHEAT taxes jump
td the intra line, oi v.... , - -
'. trian victory,
nearest Paris. i
This line extends fr0m Amiens to The Russian forces were repulsed
Dmok General Joffere's army wit 'all along the entire front of forty
cut up. hence the new tactics, two miles and ae now in full ligt
Now the Allies have quit tne o'fer.-!-" the direction of Dublm. The
ve and are mobilizing at ,oses a,e enormous. 'The flight of
strategic point., not in Belgium, but ; Russians was like Napoleon's van-
qjishment t te battle of Waterloo."
in France.
The Germans are actively moving ; says the dispatch.
on the offensive, and along the lines
for 53 miles the cry is heard: "On to
Paris"
All the occupied terntory has be?n ,
abandoned by the French, including
RAMMED
AND SUNK
TEN LIVES LOST WHEN VIC
TOR1A HITS STEAMSHIP
NEAR SEATTLE
(By Associate.! J'lvs.-O
SeaUle, Aim'. IN Ten live.-; were
lost when tin' :assi'!m'r st Tii.-hip
Admiral Sampson, was rammed and
sunk by tin- Pritoess Yietoria.
The eoHisioii oecurred at. l'oint No
'dint, twenty miles north of Seattle,
at '! oVloek t!i:s! mornim; during a for
and a thick smoke from foreM fire:-.
The Princess Victoria bronchi the
survivors to Seattle.
BEYER SAYS COLORADO
IS EXTREMELY DAMP
I jiene sever. ea-hi. r 'f lb" 1
lie Savings bank, and son, a ' n . i
artive, home tli is mornim.'. from a
sojourn of several week in Colorailo.
.Mr. Meyer was !iite ill upon lea v in--''
11 ' ,i hi urns t i i 1 1 li itit;ro e,L Mr-.
IVyT ri-maii:e,i in folio-ado ami i-'
now at a sa li it a i ill m in Mould' r,
' Tllefe are several li'iml'-ed (;..Ia
hitnatis in Colorado,'' said Mr. !!.-.
"and forty or more C'tthiians thoio.
Thi-y ha be. n the wett.r rei-aci
Colorado has I im-.m. If ha - r..in.''
daily."
Mr. and Mr-- T n'o and o".
Howard, returned Pom Colorado to
day. They motored h.o'k in ''e F: :
which was in rolb-ion ui'h a cMe.-'
en--. Mr. Fire fill sufers 'rom
in;:irii"- rf"-evd iti the wreck
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(,-. KNDEflL'S
a -4 work
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BOMBARDED
ADVENTIST ELDER THOMP
SON GIVES STIRRING DIS
COURSE; OFFICERS
I o f ninniiii.;-.- o;' "!.a st-i,a
tia tne M!'ell ill Maris T-i- r
lixilia ry A ia t
i'reneli anin,
titeir ro:in:r'.
over ( !erma n .
m:. nd in l: fen.-r...
enemy.
Anions thetii .:
a i.l t ill's io !. a
thin dill.
ZEPPELi
RSHIP
n
ER ANTWERP AG
Twentv-Six Lives Lost and 8 0 ()'
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Houses Uamagcci JJy JJonibs
' oil -a ho a re sen inr; t ho d'-vi!,
are oii worlh'.' What, are oil
a ori. in;: for'.' IIh.v would Voil like lo
ee i:i-d.l.v eoaie.'" Were .Millie of the
t.irfliris". i!ie -I ions .shot, by lObler
;.is. 'I hotii... on at his hearers last
in. -a! on the Si", i 1 1 1 ! i I lay Advelitlst
r.iiiij, i i 1 1 f I ;i' lliahland '.ilk. I'dd
.. 'I hum jisoii .ontrasii.il shardy 'he
v, !i man jdn ed n;on liirn
. r I' ;. iii ; sha lie-iul fall aful the I re -:m
!ii!oi; jii-'i o !:i ji rn pa hi lo re -.J...OU
him. Ilamani'v sold itself for
!i,ii:.-hl Silt t!ie Ii!e of till' Son of
i ,n I v, a : ;' i '. "II for t h" ransom j,ri' e
Do Christians Die
In hi , tli m ion of the '. M :
b. .' to s.i , e I a.t! whl'di -a as
lo-t ." I ' ; I r 'I hoiii;i, on jdaeoil a s;.e
i id - i f ii ; "'li the .vord "that' and
,': m'. i i i1 to in- hide 1 fe, mind, home,
ilitli-Xl. I lid ill.'Oi' enee. ( 'h ri'-' ' is
i , . !:'i o, ham ihi' v and w ill 'oi --
;,e i..' the ' , i i i.i li raee. lie
, ;,).. I,, .; ! ! . e r ;.-.-Ji from the o . I I (,!
h: J I. . ,, A..-! ! .-.hi. h !- fie ..-,!
GUTHRIE MERCHANT IN
GERMANY HAS NOT BEEN
HEARD FROM
HESiMH STKB, LOOM
COUNTY FARMER. ARRESTED
While oo Visit to Germany Is Held
lor Violation ol the Enlist
ment law
Herman .1. Steiner, a Oeniuin farm
er rosidlnn near Meridian, this coun
ty, who recently went to Ormany on
:i vl'tit vvith his wife and two Mill
ion, ha been arr.-sliil nnd Kentmel
to three months' Inipriaonment for
alleged violation of the army enHsl
ment hiwH, in ordimj to informal Ian
received here. The Stat depart-'
ment a' WaMhinton H investigawlnt
tho ciine. Tho lii-t won) from
Stelner enrne from Alplrta&.
Hi an thirty mil
fro in I lie frontier of ICIhumm or
day oeeitrred,
lie has likely been trnpresHrd Into
set vice by the Cennans in their at
teniit to rhocli the oiorat.lou lit
A Is.leo.
Is Lutz Safe?
"Is l ). laitr, 'resident of tn
f.ntz I ry tioods 'omiany of this oltf
hii Te?"
Mr, LnU and faiiiily have bfin lit
Hnrope ttevenil months.
"We have not resolved n lino from
Mr. Taitz sinro the wr hrdkt) out,''
ald f.'eiieral Manager Prod lilntz
today, "(in July 2' Mr. Iutf wrote
that lie was in Ttwiferlnnd and was
leavfmt for ICarHrhiio. Ormany, t"
day That U the last wp bavo h"ard.
However, 've feel no alarm. Mr.
I.ntz !m an invalid and It Is not HKHr
he :m '! ImprpRHfd Into xnUltarf
"erlci" An uncle of Mr. liiit. Is
general of one of th various Oermaa
hi it'.ldeR.
Four Nephews in the Army.
Mi Welnberper, of this rity,
came rrom Hungary. He has four
nephew In the Air-itro-irwntriry
a rm v.
Main Army Marching ci Poseo.
T.o:-don. A';.. - A - i-M'- 'i
rx- 'lar.Lv T. iejr.c h fro-:
i viit-jir: - . i; i-i.iji :
Muelhausen, and tMe troops aligned ,
t0r fHeer detente.
At the opening o. the war. the
Fre.ich probably felt that their capi-
- ,.r,,r. in tne orotectior cf V."..: :x o I! 1? : h r. ' ::-' t 'a ir.s
lM-fj-ian invasion r-f ;ala-i.t at ''
Pjitii mr.i iii'-ei" tir'!,'(.-,t'::.'e;:'
alorj; a w fmr.t.
(B' .UeO. ia' 1 VT( : )
(::' a.:o. Ii! . A':ir. : i :
?e-..?i'ion t! Kof ,;,.,
w ill , ii ra 'A !1 o'.t. v. -. a I
f ; . :r. r, i .-' t ( n .- o .
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Max "..,i' i. r 1 ! ;j -ii:
fA..tt;--'t,e a. ' '
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(BY AS'.' I A I I i I'l-M . ,
LONDON. AUG. . f A D "-PAT CM TO KtJTEII'i FROM ANTWf HP "' !" 11 ' ' '
SAYS ANOTHER MAID ON T H '.' ( I f Y V, Y A ft'CI L! A I H ' H ! P VAS '"' !' '' '"''"'"J- :'
ATTEMPTED LAST NIGHT. i ' "' !" '
EFFECTIVE MEASURE S TAKI , f;Y T ill'. t;f I '.'AT. V L I T A H Y Al' , '" ' " '"'
THOHITIES. THE CORRESPOSDI 'ii O 'i T I N t, F ',. C'-LSi D r H t f.f P t '
MAN AIRSHIP TO RETIRE. ; ' '" ' ' ' : ' "' ' "'' "' ' :
THE BOMB DROPPNG EXPl.fdT PPO'.'ISFS TO urCOME A MAT ! follow, nj The C-rcui
TER TOR INTE RNATIONAL CC'.f;.Dr .RATION ' ' '' '''''' ":"
THE BELGIAN AUTHOR IT I F.'. AFC CLAIMING THE AERIAL AT ' ' ' ": " '
TACKS ARE A VIOLATION Of T i ' f hA'.'.f CONVt NTICN. AND A P. f ' ' ' '':'
PREPARING TO PROTEST Of r o'. Mi.; r o !.( TlU PO'f ' '' '" '
ONE REPORT TODAY SA ,'-, T HA r TVI'NTY S' LIVf ? V, E P r . ;.'.
LOST. ' ' ' '''' "' '' '' ''
A SEMIOFFICIAL DISr-ATCM ', A Y ;
ANTWERP V f RE SLIGHTLY DAVAfD
. o -..ii !: :
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. m a lr '. era
and he .. IT
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GEORGE FRAZIER PAILS
VICTIM TOCOPID'S WILES
Cou-e I'l.cier, Guthrie donei-r
a n, j me.o man. has taken unto hltn-
eif ., Wife.
He iplietlv li;..ed nivtiv to i'.ivpn-
worth, Can, ant on Monday was
murrb-d to Mr.i lOlla Silverman of
J i ijm.i - cjiy. TP,, h.ippv 7iir is no'
njoviro' an automohile h'nymoou
'hr.e.ri, Iis.--oii! i Tliey will return
to fluff, rn - riet no-!, and will reside
at i. '.J lai-ii I k lo I ..nia avenue Thi
rid- in an eM im able la.ly and h.s
levj ',.. :. Kana- 'h'v lhi-y jars.
I'racr .am- to flit'.rie in lll-i
a-'ion .i mihi; !.-'i uririi
i "O i i I i rna It v O'iei; , 14
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Ml". DPMI MOLSES
7,t- ir -tjt
A' Of'l'TS VO.-I
PARIS. AUG. 2C A GERMAN AEROPLANE FELL TO'THF GROUND
INSIDE THE BRITISH L'NES 1 N M. 01 I '.,N0Y Rr(.iO.- VF.-Tf PDA v.
TWO GTPMAN OFTtCF RS O' '.'.M':j A1 'III r D
QUESNOY 'S SIX r,':l.f; FPOV iair.
PARI. A '. G. ?c - !LE AUG . F ' F
KILLED TODAY WHILE H S E H ING 0 V E -'
PARIS. A l G y,2Z PRE L-N a t-",ri r- ,
DAY BY FRENCH SHFLLS AT ClLLE.
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.RON
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WARRANTS FOR CONGRESSME'
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1 TO SETTLE
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p
d t'e 1. ft
nart ef t-e French army, ti- Eng.
,sh epeditionaNe. and the fighting i v.'."m: '...).,( . tVe ll't-sinn ee?!-i,,wo
fl.lniant. So the greater part of the v. '.,...! of v.-w
French forces under G;reral J"re t'-A h ii.i-i n-mv
started to take back Alsace and Lor-
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-!ieVe,l fr, 'e( ,
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wnat GsvemTient Fcrecaste Report
Via Cpeiia
N'fi '.-..;'. la . Ai Z'' To
rieht .n.' Tin- liy. tcf-ralif
V
ralne. Th army was cut to piece.
(Continued en Page L
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(Continued en Paje Three)