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PENSACOLA WEATHE She PENSACOLA Is tfcc Natural Gulf Gateway for the Great South American Trade of the near future. generally fair Thursday and Friday, gentle north -past and east winds. yesterday's temperature: Highest, 79 degrees; low est, 72 degrees. VOL. XVII. NO. 281. PENSACOLA. FLORIDA, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 8, 1914. PRICE. FIVE CENTS. FRENCH RETAKE LOST TERRITORY OFFICIAL STATEMENT CLAIMS ALLIES ARE ADVANCING AT SOME POINTS AND DRIVING GERMANS BACK. Death Reaps Grim Harvest On European Battlefields; Eye Witness Describes Horrible Sights On Great Field Where Armies Fought BELGIAN SEAT OF GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN MOVED FROM ANTWERP TO OSTEND KAISER'S TROOPS ATTACKING THE FORMER CITY HAVE PUSHED FORWARD AGAINST CONSIDERABLE RESISTANCE HEAVY EN G GEMENT NEAR GHENT IN WHICH THE GERMANS ARE DRIVEN BACK WITH HEAVY LOSSES. BY associatp;d press. London, October 7. The French official communi cation tonight announces that the ground previously lost by the French between Chaulnes and Roye has been re taken and the center has advanced on certain points. E:cept on the two wings, where the German attacks have! been repulsed, there has been nearly a complete calm along the entire front. On the left, the German cavalry has been checked, and north of Lille it has been driven back. The right wing remains in the same position as yesterday. A Ghent message declared that violent fighting took place between Audenarde and Leupesrhem. near Ghent. today. After a heavy engagement the Belgians received reinforcements and threw the Germans back with heavy losses. MOVE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT, Reports today declared the Belgian seat of govern ment has been moved from Antwerp to Ostend. Several min sters, with the personnel ot ministries, arrived m Ostend tonight, which practically confirms the reported change of governrr ent. The Germans attacking Antwerp aveusnea lorwara tneir positions against consiaeraoie Ttsistance bv the garrison. j - o Numerous skirmishes occurred early toady between ne advance posts in tne environs ot Ypres, twentv miles smith ot LJstend. anri in tne southern nart ot West H lan ders. The Germans threw themselves on the forts and A . - . I W A 1V1 A A, A VI IWUi The Russian foreign minister today announced that A Vienna dispatch to Milan confirms the previous reports tnat the Austrian army in uaiicia nas oeen placed nnnr trrt t r i rT -r n a rri jti vtitt rinviiiTt i riH i 11 iiif iw 1 i 11111 Ul II II. I l.l II l tA V VI X. L1IL, U W A 11 1U1 J. kJ lU 11 V1WJ K 1 i. W . J. I W f fc I.V VJUl 11V1 V V. -I t I X- 1 1 Am A. AfcT J -V W - Vienna dispatches, via Rome, say the Austrians today CABINET WILL BE ACTIVE IN FALL CAMPAIGN Secretary Bryan and Otlicr Members Will Speak in Doubtful States. WILL PRAISE ADMINISTRATION President is Making Dead Germans loft on the battlefield of Soisson. Paris, Oct. 7. The almost indescrib able horror of the battlefield is sug gested by a correspondent who fol lowed in the wake of the armies as they drew away from Paris. Ne;vs paper men are rigorously excluded from t'le region where fighting is or has recently been going on. But this particular correspondent was invited by a Red Cross surgeon to accompany him on a visit to the theater of ac tivities. "The most awful carnage in the world's history has strewn the battle region east and northeast of Paris with countless thousands of rotting French, English and German corpses and disemboweled carcasses of horses," the correspondent writes. "During an automobile tour I have just made of the vast battlefield be tween Marne and the Aisne I have seen evidences of the pitiless char acter of modern warfare far more appalling than the most morbid imagi nation could picture. "So unspeakably horrible is the scene that it is probably principally with the object of preventing descrip tions becoming public and making the whole world shudder that the French military chiefs so rigorously exclude war correspondents from the region. "At an amazingly short distance from Paris, six days after the fight ing, bodies are piled on the roadside in heaps, at the side of which stands a soldier with bayonet fixed. Further out bodies lie in all conceivable posi tions in ditches and fields. "The air of these fields is over powering. The dead are being burled as hastily as possible, but the battle carnage Is so terrific it is impossible to keep time with the continuous slaughter. "Near Compiegne I saw pickets feverishly packing their comrades' bodies beneath the ground. Packing is the only word for it. Trenches 150 yards long are dug in meadows. The bodies, each resting on its side, are then tightly packed like sardines throughout the length. Above them are placed another row of corpses laid on their backs. The trenches are then covered in. All passersby see in the fields are streaks of fresh earth, each one meaning 300 bodies more or less, "How appalling has been the toll of guns last week is vividly shown by the immense number of these ghasrly slashes in soil to be seen within two or three hours' automobile run of Paris. "The grave diggers make a long ditch in the middle of the meadow, then collect all the dad soldiers lying within 200 or 300 yards, then move 400 or 500 yards away, making a new ditch. Each long ditch therefore con tains those killed within a circle radi ating from 300 to 4.C0 yards from the common grave. "The only preparation of the bodies for the grave was to remove the little tag containing a number worn around the neck of each soldier. These are collected together and sent to the headquarters of each brigade every day. "The dead soldier la only a num ber, but his name is thus ascertained, and in the official reports of casualties the distinction made between the dead and "missing." Names not answering to roll call after each day's battle are accounted for as missing, unless the name and number has turned up in some of the field hospitals. "Familiarity with these acres and acres of common graves along the beautiful valleys of the Marne, ihe Oise and the Aisne soon breeds indif ference. After traveling for miles along roads literally lined with bodies many still in positions occupied at the time death overtook them one be gins to grow callous. Not only men, but women, even society women, act ing as nurses, become inured, and when firing ceases grope among heaps of bodise for wounded without flinch ing. "While many of the wounds are too ghastly for description thousands of Germans axe found lifeless, bearing no flesh wounds, still leaning in trenches with rifles at shoulders. Death in such cases is caused by the deadly gases emitted by melinite shells." German Vessels Damage City Extent $2, 000, 000 TEAMS TUNING UP FOR WORLD'S SERIES GAMES Two War Ships Bombard the French Colony of Papeete, Tabitt, According- to Stories Told by-Refugees. BY ASSOCITED PRESS. vere engaged along the entire Russian front in an effort I JJZS55L JK o check the two Russian armies advancing from Przemysl I two vessels were sunk, and two blocks n i i t rr t rf hnsmpss hnusfls a nil rosiripnreS toward wacow, ana wnicn aircauy nave rcdcrieu a"""vv ,sers i3V CneCKinP- tne advance the AUStrianS I Scharnhorst and Greisena in their and Neusandeo. mil avert the threatened Cracow siege. BATTLE IS A GIGANTIS "SNIPING ENGAGEMENT" London. Oct. 7. Except on the left 'ing of the allied army, where there : reason to believe lively actions are eing fought, the great battle front in esi-erii war tirtfiia. iuua.j w piacea oy oattenes oi neavy arm- ry artillery duels seem to have sue- '-wtU -lVJ UCCIALO iiUaUU.t MiCUvw !'Ages, both sides sought to clear out ie extended lines of entrenched hos le troops. One result of the present stage of Perations has been appreciable di- V uw ww . X UVVMU U UiU u A -. u t"e well content to play this waiting holr troops rest, while the invaders nast keen men constantly in the enches. The most important development of nsrht in Northern France is the '""cu movpmeni oi a uennan army, to be 20.000 stronsr. southward W T-, . 9 v . .... x rencn ooruer. isernn mniiary would meet disaster if they far and it is believed here the Ger- are seeking to crush the envelop- vement which has been clos- 0.1 VUiU VIUXIV vm -A.. A UVIV bMD A. AU AAQUtr "EAT AIR RAIDS ON THE BRITISH ISLES EXPECTED ondon, Oct 7. A Daily Express -wnaeni ax xne Hague says tnat newspapers reach ine- there in- - uo,i iuuxii .eppenn is at wu- u . . .ij, mo nunn cea point, irom the exeat air rir. on the Rrif. isles is expected to start One publishes an interview with the n which he is quoted as say- German Losses Claimed to be at Least 300,000 BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. London, Oct. 7. An official list puo lished in Berlin, says a Rome dis patch to the Exchange Telegraph Com pany, gives the German losses in killed and missing up to September 1 as 117,000. The authorities admit, the dispatch j adds, that the total losses to date are at least 300,000. Austrians Lose Many Vessels Through Mines BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. Paris, Oct. 7. The Messagero pub lishes a dispatch from Ancona, in Tta)y, on the Adriatic, telegraphs the Rome correspondent of the Havas Agency, which declares that four Austrian torpedo boat destroyers have been lost off the coast of Dalmatia as a result of coming in contact with mines. The Ancona dispatch adds that a majority of the members of the crews of these six vessels lost their lives. (Continued on Page Three.) BANKER'S LAST HOPE. Washington, Oct. 7. Attorneys for William L. Xorton. president of the American National Bank of Bartles ville, Okla, sentenced to seven years imprisonment for alleged misapplica tion of bank funds, are in Washington to ask the supreme court next Tues day to review his conviction. This is the banker's last hope to es cape the penitentiary. bombardment last month of French colony of Papeete, Tahiti. Refugees from the island told the story on their arrival here today aboard the liner Moana, from Aus tralia, which touched at Tahiti. The dead were one native and a Japanese chauffeur. No landing was made. According to most of the Moana's passengers, the French fired the first shot from a hill side fort. Otherwise, it was thought, the settlement would not have been bombarded, although undoubtedly .he French gunboat Zolee would have been sun;. "The Germans, flying no flags, hove in sight about seven in the morning," ran the composite narrative .of the pas sengers. "In the harbor were lying the French gunboat Zolee and the German merchantman Walkurie, the Nolan's prize. Anticipating a possible raid, the French had stripped the Zolee and mounted her guns ashore. "As soon as the strangers were recognized, the fort opened fire. The Germans hoisted their baLtle flags and began a hot reply, broadside after broadside. Nothing on the island matched their eight-inch rifles. We estimated that more than a hundred eight-inch shells fell in the town, be sides a rain of smaller projectiles. "The crew of the Zolee started for shore at the first shot. Not long after ward the little gunboat sank, riddled with holes. Her prize, the Walkurie flew no flag and the Germans, ignorant of her nationality and that her crew were prisoners on the island, sank her too. "The bombardment lasted about two hours. Houses surrounding the Ameri can consulate over which the stars and stripes was flying conspicuously were not damaged, but the waterfront and mercantile district were wrecked. "The Scharnhorst and Gneisenau steamed off to the westward undam aged. The fire from the little French fort had been feeble and fallen short." FIRST COTTON DIRECT TO FRANCE-EXPORTS INCREASING BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. New York, Oct. 7. For the first time since war statred in Europe, a direct shipment of cotton was made from this country to France, yesterday. It is supposed most of the cotton reaching France has gone through Greac Britian but yesterday's consignment was to Havre. The total exports of cotton yesterday was 29,812 bales. This lncruded 3,406 bales to France, 5.4S7 bales to Great Britian and 7,456 bales to other Euro pean countries. More than 12,000 bales went to Japan and approximately 1,250 bales to Mexico. This represents a gain compared with recent weeks. Exports for the season to date have totaled 181,721 'bales. East year in the same period 1,323,854 be'.es were exported. Boston Nationals Get Their Practice and Then See the Athletics Defeat New York. Effort to Smooth Out Differ ences, and Tt is Said Henry Wa tier son Intends to Call at White Hiuse. ."Work liegins on Adjourn ment of Congress. BY A9SOC1ATKD PRESS. Washington, Oct. 7. Arrangements for taking active part in the coming congressional campaign were being made today by cabinet member who will speak in many districts. Secretary Bryan will leave tonight on a stumping tour of Ohio and Indiana, later speak -ing in Missouri, Klansax. Womlnjc and other Western a.nd mlddl Wern states. After congress adjourns, tpa-ofbdbly next week, th campaign wD toaune more active. It will be launched for mally wiih a letter from the president to Representative Underwood, in whrk-h Mr. Wilson will express pleasure t what has been accomplished daring the session and endorse democratic members seeking re-election to the hous The leading points cabinet membea-K will emphasize in their speeches will be that the United States has remained at peace while the powerful nation of Europe are at war, the currency, tariff and conservation measures and the manner in whirh President Wilson met the situation following the break ing out of the European conflict. The president is making every effort to smooth out differerces in the Dptoo- oratic party aefore the elections. Henry Watterson, it is said. Intends to call on Mr. Wilson to dono the lartclsul qavjUfrl Oeerge Harvey and h n la withdraw their support of Mr. WJ'xon In the 1912 camjpaign prior in hi nomination. Support to be given the democratic ticket In Kew York in the Novemlv campaign occupied the attention f President Wilson and his poittlcal ad visors today. Secretary liryan waited to speak In New York Tuesday, mt it was found that arrangements could not be made, Secreta rtes Mr-Adoo and Redfield Will t rob a .My take his place. Antwerp Forts Fall Into Hands of the vjermans BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. Berlin, Oct. 7. (Via Sayville, L. L) Despite general expectation that & slight pause would be made in the German advance on Antwerp, it was reported today in government quar ters that two more forts had fallen into German hands. They were Fort Kessel and Fort Brocchen (respective ly east and north of Lierre) which no longer were able to resist the German siege guns. The capitulation of Antwerp, accord ing to German military authorities cau be only a matter of a couple of days. AMERICAN HOSPITAL SHIP HAS REACHED ROTTERDAM The Hague, Oct. 7 The American hospital ship Red Cross came into Rotterdam last night from France. Six American surgeons and 25 nurses left Rotterdam today for hospital work among the troops of Germany and Austria Caranza And Villa Soon Will be Reconciled BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. Washington, Oct. 1. A speedy rec onciliation between Carranza and Villa, through conferences at Agues Calien tes, are predicted tonight in a state ment Issued by the Constitutionalist agency here. The statement declares that Carran za has no personal feelings against Villa, believing Villa's position was due to designing and unscrupulous per sons, who have posed as Villa's friends. Carranza declared he is eager to re turn to private life. The state department within a few days will be asked that formal con sideration be given the recognition question. Submarine of British Navy Sinks German BY ASSOCIATE!? PRESS. London, Oct. 7. The admiralty an nounces that the British submarine E-9 has returned safely after torpedoe ing and sinking the German torpedo boat destroyers this morning off the Estuary rivers Kms, between the Neth erlands and East Fried! and in the North Sea. Earlier reports from Amsterdam said the destroyer hit a mine. Lieu tenant Commander Max If. Norton, commanded the submarine. This is her second successful raid. Earlier she sank the German cruiser Hela in the North Sea. South Carolina to Care For Her Cotton Growers BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. Columbia, Oct. 7. A joint resolution submitting to :i referendum vote the question of empowering the state bond issue of ten million dollars to relieve the financial situation was introduced today in extraordinary session of the South Carolina legislature. The state proposes to lend tenant farmers money at a low interest rate. WAR RISK INSURANCE BUREAU WRITES $4,534,521 Washington, Oct. 7. The bureau of war risk insurance today announced it had written insurance aggregating $4,534,521 and has pending policies call ing for $5,197,600. Applications were received yesterday for Jl.034,000 insurance. BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. Philadelphia, Oct. 7. The Boston Nationals got first practice today in nreDaration for the world's serk-s. later attending the Philadelphia and J New York American league game in the afternoon. Tonight no reserve seat tickets for any games in Philadel phia were available, except through speculators. The applications were four times greater than the park s capacity. The demand for reserved seats was enormous. Vhen the ticket sale began at a department store, the line of pur chasers was six blocks long. So great was the rush that the line broke and there was a general scramble to get to the ticket office. Policemen brought n out order after the mounted men threatened to ride down the crowd. Some who purchased the tickets had been in line since early Monday morn ing. There was also a long line of ticket purchaser at Shibe park. BENDER TO OPEN SERIES Most of the critics believe that Bender, the veteran Indian twirler, will be Connie Mack's selection for the opening game and that he will be op posed by James. Manager Stallings says he has not made up his mind whether James, Tyler, Rudolph or one of the other Boston pitchers will be given the honor of opening the series. He declared last night that Deal will be chosen to fill the terth at third base, left vacant by Smith's injury It is rumored that speculators em ployed most of them in line to purchase tickets for them in an effort to corner the market. Purchasers must give their names and address and any doubt as to their identity, it was said, would result in the refusal to seil thm tickets. Only two sets of tickets will be sold to each purchaser. COMMISSION TO INSTRUCT THE UMPIRES SELECTED Great Burden of War Tax Will be on Liquors BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. Washington. Oct. 7 The senate democ rates finished their revision of the war revenue bill In caucus today and preparations were made to presa the measure in the senate. Senator Simmons, In charge of the Mil, sart the finance committee would present lr. to the senate tomorrow. He hetVewnd a week of debate wouki dispose of the bill and clear the wary for adjournonsn . By the action of ttvei caucus tha burden of the $100,000,000 war msvenue (bill Is imposed on liquors. The pro-j posed extra, tax on beer was Vnr. -i from fifty cents to 75 cents et IbarrslJ making the total levy $1.75 a barrel with a drawlack of 5 per cent, for purchase of revenue stamps In advnnce A special revenue tax on rectifier h .f distilled spirits of frvie cents a jpi also was levied. The tax on Hquoi . It is estimated, would raise more than $50,000,000 In revenue annual) The caucus also eliminated the pro posed tax of fifty cents a hflMH nw r on automobile sales and the pro levy of one -ent a gallon on y ilina and cut in half the proposed Z a thousand dollars on banking apital and surplus. Masons Elect Grand Officers For the South New York, '-t. 7.--The Varional Baseball Commission will hold a meet ing in this ctly tomorrow to Instruct umpires of the local championship and those of the world's series in their duties. It is expected President Ed. Barrow and the dab presidents of the National league will attend the Oiants Vankee game in a body. A meeting of the International circuit has been cailed for this city for Thursday. WOMEN SUFFRAGISTS WIN. Chicago, Oct. 7. The supreme court of Springfield, today declined to grant a re-hearing of the woman suffrage case. The court last July held that the woman suffrage act was constitutional. BV ASSOCIATED PRESS Washington, Oct. 7. Oeorge Blemminfl Moore of MonlEomTy, Ala., today wis elected Sovereign i rand Commander of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Masons for the Southern jurisdi' -tlon of the United States by the su preme council In sossion here. Mr. Moore was f JsiltS lUMlf Orand Com mander and was elected to succeed the late Sovereign 'Jra-ni C onuna ndsr James D. Ric hardson. Other officers chosen were: Charles E. Rosenbaum, hittle Rock. Ark., Lieutenant "rand Commander. Ciraud Prior, '.'harles F. Buck, New Or leans, la... irand ,hanreIlor, Ernest It. Hussey. Seattle. Wash., Grand Master of State, T. W. Hugo, McAlester, Okla.