Sioux County pioneer., November 20, 1914, Image 2

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ID EAST PRUSSU
TREMENDOUS BATTLE DEVELOP
ING THERE A8 RUSSIANS ARE
PU8HING GREAT ENVELOP­
ING MOVEMENT.
DIXMUDE CLAIMED RETAKEN
ALLIES GAINING ADVANTAGE
Entente Hope Teuton Reinforcements
Will Be Dispatched from West to
Eastern Germany—Vienna Ad
mits Evacuating Eastern Gal
icia Before Czar's Army.
London, NOT. 16.—While the battle
in west Flanders continues to hold
public attention because of the desper
ate character of the fighting, the num
bers of men engaged and the territory
at stake, military men now look upon
east Prussia as the center of gravity
of the war.
Great Battle Developing.
In the latter field of operations a
tremendous battle is developing. The
Russians are pushing vigorously a
great enveloping movement. They
are engaged with the Germans along
a wide curve of 150 mile« from Stallu
ponen, in the northeast, through Got-'
dap and Kruglanken, which Is well
within the tangle of lakes, down to
Soldau In the southwest.
Military observers say the Germans
apparently have checked their retreat
In Poland and by counter attacks are
endeavoring to create diversion. They
say, however, that the Russians are
not to be turned from their plan, which
Is believed to be an attack on Danzig.
They argue that the Germans either
must allow east Prussia to be overrun
a second time or bring up reinforce
ments and that they can hardly weak
en their army along the Polish fron
tier, for that would leave Posen and
Silesia open to invasion.
Allies Hope for Sacrifice.
Tho allies naturally are hoping an
effort will be made to relieve
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day, that their attempts to break down
the British resistance around Ypres
have failed and that their attack in
the vicinity of La Bassee has met with
no great success.
The German official report again
Bays the German advance is progress
ing and records the capture of pris
oners. On the other hand, the French
official communication declares all
German attacks have been repulsed
and that an advance has been made
by the allies nearly everywhere.
Austriana Admit Evacuation.
Vienna admits the Austrians have
evacuated eastern Gallcla, but as an
offset to this says the Servian resist
ance has been broken and the Aus
trians have crossed thei Danube, driv
ing the Servians back into their own
country.
Vienna also reports that the Aus
trians have turned their attention to
the Montenegrins and are endeavoring
to force them back. According to a
Montenegrin report they have failed.
Accounts from this part of the world
are 6o contradictory, however, that
the only thing clear is that the Aus
trians, by sending up reinforcements
virtually have cleared their country
of the enemy.
War Costly for Britain.
Great Britain la beginning to learn
the cost of the European war. A
White Paper, lust Issued, shows that
the government intends to ask parlia
ment for $1,125,000000,, which, with
the 1500,000,000 voted at the last ses
sion, is expected to be Great Britain's
Mil for the fiscal year ending March
il.
Of this sum, however, a small
part has been lent to BelgiuCi and
Servla, and some will be used to as
sist the dominions and the allies to
make their financial arrangements.
A portion of the money also will be
required for the additional men who
are to be enlisted and who will bring
the English regular army up to 2,186,
000. These figures do not include the
territorial,s who number nearly 600,
000.
German Attack Continues.
London, Nor. 14.—A critical stage In
the battle In West Flanders has been
reached and the next few days, If not
hours, should produce something more
decisive than has yet occurred. The
Kaiser's army seems determined to
reach Calais and Dunkirk.
The Germans continue to attack,
with all the forces at their command,
the British and French who hold the
.y
Germans Renew Attempt]
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Prussia at a sacrifice to the German
armies in Belgium and France.
In any fighting In their own country
the Germans will have the advantage
over the Russians as they have a net
work of strategic railways to move
their troops quickly and they use mo
tors to a larger extent than their op
ponents. Military men are wfetching
operations in this region with deepest
interest.
Dixmude Reported Lost.
In West Flanders the Germans do
not seem to have improved their posi
tion to any marked extent. In fact,
an unofficial report from tfie north of
France
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Emden, Terr
German Cruiser Emden, Which Has Menaced AWtetf Vessels, Destroying
Just Been Destroyed by an Australian Warship.
line between Dixmude and Ypres. With
the exception of the capture of Dix
mude and some little progress around
Ypres', they have not beea able to
make any material advance.
Russians Take Johannisburg.
The Russian army, under General
Rennenkampff, is fighting Hs way into
east Prussia and has taken Johannis
burg, which is on the railway from
Lyck to Soldan, both of which towns
are in Russian hands. This gives to
Russia the control of an Important
railway line, which skirts the frontie*
in German territory and several
branch railways running Into the in
terior.
The uenfral army, which drove the
Germans back from the Vistula, has
had only unimportant engagements,
but it is known to be pushing forward
to the borders of Posen and Silesia,
which the Germans are crossing.
Russians Near Cracow.
The Russian left wing has followed
the Kielce railway to the Austrian
frontier, and is within a few miles of
Cracow, the siege of which is immin
ent.
The southern army, under General
Ruzsky, is at Rzeszow, between
Przemysl and Cracow, and its crossing
of the San river is being opposed
by the Austrians. Another detachment
continues the siege of Przemysl, while
another is operating against the Aus
trians who are holding the parses of
the Carpathians.
The army of Atmenia, whose base is
on Kara, Transcaucasia, is approach
ing the Turkish fortress of Erzerum.
The manner in which Grand Duke
Nicholas, the Russian commander-in
chief, is wielding these armies and the
mobility they are showing is the sub
ject of admiration on the part of mili
tary men here.
Austrian Divisions Annihilated.
A message from Bucharest, accord
ing to an Exchange Telegraph com
pany dispatch from Rome, says two
Austrian divisions have been annihila
ted along theriver Prtth.-'
A message from Sarajevo says the
governor of Bosnia has addressed a
proclamation to the Austrian army de
claring the Servians must be com
pletely defeated before winter.
Marks Invasion of England?
By International News Service.
London, Nov. 13.—The official presB
bureau announces that H. M. S. Nig
er has just been torpedoed by a Ger
man submarine in the Downs and
foundered. All her officers and crew
were saved. Four men were Injured.
The Niger was a comparatively un
important unit in the British fleet.
The sinking of the Niger is de
clared to mark the opening of the
threatened attack on the English
coast by German submarines. The
Downs is a section of the Kentish
coast just south of the headlands that
guard the entrance of the river
Thames. It Is a protected harbor,
made so by the Goodwin SandB and is
the nearest point on the British coast
line to the French port of Calais.
Germans Take Dixmude.
Paris, Nov. 13.—Dixmude, the Bel
gian town around which was centerod
the hardest fighting in Flanders, has
been captured by the Germans. This
was admitted In an official statement
Issued here.
Drive to Sea Renewed.
The btatement showed that the&siv
mans have renewed their drive titiMthe
French coast, which was temporarily
halted by the cutting of the dykes In
the lower valley of the Yse» river. It
stated that the battle h«d been re
sumed with great ferocity between
Nleuport and the River Lys. This is
the first time since the Yser Valley
was flooded that Nleuport has been
mentioned in an official report. This
town is on the coast, at the estremf
left end of the allies' line.
Offsetting the admission that Dix
mude had been captured. It Is an
nounced that Lombertzyde, north of
Nleuport, has been reoccupied by the
allies.
Opens Route to Dunkirk.
Behind Dixmude Is the direct route
to Dunkirk, one of the French ports
on which the Germans have set their
hearts, and if they can break through
here the allies will be compelled to
tall back to new positions. The Invad
ers therefore have been concentrating
their forces at this point, and their
success in taking Dixmude, where they
claim to have captured 500 prisoners,
and positions to the west of Lange
marck, where, according to Berlin re
port, 2,000 prisoners tell into their
hands, shows that the statement so
freely made that they had been send
ing troops from the west to Poland
are without foundation.
Conclusion of Military Men.
As a matter of fact, military men
here believe the Germans, as soon as
LATE WAR DEVELOPMENTS
Wlille the conflict In northern
v*"" BelKlum continues to
advance la progressing, recording
only the capture of Nome prlsoaers,
while the French communication
declare! all German att&cka have
peen repaired and around gained
'be allien at aeveral place*.
Vienna admits that the Austrian*
bave evacuated eastern Gallcla, but
olfset says the Servian resist
"nee has beeu broken, the Serbs
driven back lato their own country
*nd Austrian troops to have crossed
the Danube.
The. Kaiser la reported to have
established new headquarters at
Coblena, where he la protected by
armed airships.
Eight German airmen In four
machines are daahed to earth In
Jrtt with two French and two
British machines. The allies drew
the Germana over their lines, where
brought them crashing to
The people of eastern Silesia
are reported to be fleeing In panic
to Berlin, Dresden and other cities.
The Japanese fleet reported oS
the Chilean coast turned out to b«
German aquadron. Another nav'al
engagement Is consequently ei
pected In the South Pacific.
Russians have occupied three
more towns In Gallcla, accordlag
*o an ofllclal Vienna announcement,
namely Tarnow, Jaslo and Knno,
Great Britain and France wan
Ecuador and Colombia that further
violations of neutrality will not be
tolerated. TJie complaint Is baaed
on the allegation that the twa
Latin atatea have kept German
cruisers Informed by wireless af
the whereabouts of the British
fleet.
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Athena reports anarchy aad elvil
war relgatng In juta of Albania.' ,.*
London Is Jubilant over the.*
Kaiser's loss of two cruisers, the
Emden, which haa been terrorism.
lag British ahlpplag In Souther#-*
waters, and the Koenlgsberg, als*
operating In Southern watcra. The
first haa been deatroyed and tlae
latter bottled up In a amtfll stream
la Africa.
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attract rNlef public attention, mill
'"y exgerts declare that Bant
I rumla la at prevent the center of
icravlty of the wttr. In thin en»t
ern theater a battle of tremendona
proportion* la declared developing
tbe reMult of a great enveloping
movement by the Russians, which
5" ho«gkt to Indicate a proposed
attack on Danzig.
In the western theater the Gcr
man ponltlou apparently has not
Improved In fact, It la reported
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of "In'gVni
for
Thousanda saw the sinking of
the Brltiah gunboat Niger at the
mtfnth of the Thamea by the Ger*
man anbmarlae. English naval Ms
tory coatalns ao auch daring raid.
It la now thought the Teutons will
try to eater London harbor.
Washington haa ao far been u
able to locate the V. 8. cruisers
North Carolina and Tennessee oS
the coaat of Turkey, but ofllclala
say tbey would huve been notified
before thin If anything had has#'.*
pened to one of them aa reported#
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The Germana threaten to atME*
the distribution of auppllea to tf
Belglaaa from the United Stati
ualess the Belglaaa return
Great Britain la making sup
human elforta to cut of Germany
copper aupply.(
Turkey haa announced thnt
every Muaaulman killed In tl
bombardment nay open and
fort III
ed port, three Brltiah
Preach aubjecta will he Imne
ately executed,
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Pruasla and Poaen. and elaka to
islana kati .set fool «a
soil at'tli|«e points "I
la and Poaen. and elaka
advaadag while.the Germaas elall
"S'wr point, wbel
and some
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Agenta of tke Allies la the Orient
are aald to b^'urging Japan to aead
100,000 awwwtJ troops to north*
era France l» rftura far whr
hand.
Chinese
they saw tjt was Impossible to carry
out their design of capturing Warsaw,
dispatched, troops from that region to
the west, apt imagining that-the Rus
sian .pursuit could fc carrled Out with
the raplfitr |rith which it has beeni
Russians 'Still Winning.
The Osimajis, according to Petro
grad. dispatches, have suffered a more
serious 4Meat in East Prussia than
the bJBelfi statements have disclosed.
Advices irom the Russian capital
said that'll the recent, fighting there
the Russians captured more 20,
000 prisoners, together with quantl
ttes of,guns ahd'muUltions.
Why Belgians Are Idle.
Aside (|Kim the military aspects of
the war, wh*t stood out boldest was
Germany's reported threat te cut off
the food/ supply which tlM United
States is sending to Belgium, if the
Belgians did sot return to their cities
and make an effort to resume their
normal occupations.
The Belgian answer is that it haa
been impossible to resume a semblance
of normal activity because the Ger
man soldier has commandeered nil im
plements and materials necessary to
an Industrial revival.
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at a Loss of $10,000,000 Has
SLSHUHE TAKEN,
1EP0RT ASSERTS
1EER EVENTFUL
(HIPPING FIRMS GET NEW3 Of
TRAPPING OF CRUI8ER WHOSE
RECORD RIVAL8
EMDEN.
GERMAN VESSEL HAS TOLL
OF 13 BRITISH SHIPS
Upwards of 8eventy of Allies' Craft
Have Been in Hot Pursuit of Elu
sive Raider Since'She First
Appeared Off 8andy Hook
Near Opening of War.
By international Sews Service.
London, Nov. 14.—Shipping firma
tpat received the first news of the bat
tkng. up of the cruiser Koenlgsberg
have just heard that British warships
have' trapped the German cruiser
KirHsruhe, which has been active oq
tbb east coast of South America.
Career Rivals Emden.
The German cruiser Karlsruhe, a
vessel of 6,000 tons, has had in this
war' a career as eventful hi the Afr
lantic as that of the smaller German
cruiser Emden, wbiph was recently de
strayed by .the Australian cruiser Syd
ney.
The Karlsruhe first came into n&
tice at the'outbreak of the war when
she appeared in the vicinity, of Sandy
r"ik, apgarentlyMn iwjriU for British
merchantmen leaving New York. For
a few days the British shipping hug
ged their piers and then came the
newB that the Karlsruhe had been
driven away by the approach of sev*
eral British cruisers.
Has Taken 13 Ships.
On Aug. 9 the Karlsruhe appeared
In the harbor of San Juan, Porto Rico,
where she coaled. Soon afterward
'the-Karlsruhe had a running fight at
sea with the British cruiser Suffolk
and Essex. Since then she has sunk
or captured thirteen British vessels in
the Atlantic and has been constantly
pursued, with several other German
cruisers, by upwtvrd of seventy British,
Australian, Japanese, French and Rus
sian cruisers, not including auxiliary
cruisers.
EMDEN DESTROYED BY ALLIE8.
London, Nov. 11. The German
.cruiser Emden, terror of the Indian
land Pacific oceans, whose sensational
raids upon British.shipping and even
Upon allied warships, have been a con
tijtant source of humiliation to the
British admiralty, is no more.
Finally forced into battle by the
Australian cruised Sydney, the Em
den was sent ashore, on fire from
stem to stern. Its grave is on one of
the Keeling, or Co
cos, islands, in the
Indian ocean, 500 miles southwest ot
Java, where it was driven by the Syd
ney after a sharp fight
Konlgsberg Bottled Up.
The news of the destruction of the
Emden was announced by the admir
alty. Almost at the same time came
word of another British victory on the
sea, when it was announced that the
German protected cruiser Konlgsberg,
which some weeks ago disabled the
British cruiser Pegasus, is bottled up
in the Rufijl river opposite Mafia
aland, on the German East African
coast south of Daises-Salaam.
The British cruiser Chatham, a ship
of exactly the same type as the Syd
ney, which accounted for the Emden,
found the German warship hiding in
the mouth of the Rufijl. There the
British man-o'-war blocked the Ko
nigsherg's way oat by sinking seven)
vessels In the river channel.
Casualty Llet Staggers England.
London, Nov. 14.—England is stag
gered by an announcement from Pre
mier Herbert Asquith stating that the
British casualties in tbe war up to Oct
SI wen 57,000 killed, wounded and
missing. The German casualties for
the same period wen 509,000. With
this toll paid in the fighting so far,
mon men an to he rushed to the
front A.supplementary estimate from
the war office declared that with 1,000^
000 mon men the totai British
strenfth ot all ranks would be 2,186,
400» of which probably 350,000 are ai
the front
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SKED NOT TO PROMENADE DECK
IN PAJAMAS AND RAINCOAT.
Shooting Occurs While
Coast of N.
With Insomnia.
W. R. Hinman, business manager
'ie Florida Times-Union of Jack
t, ille, Fla., and president of the
Southern Newspaper Publishers' As
sociation, was the man killed. B. H.
Wright of Utica, N. Y., was the other
passenger injured.
The shooting occurred off the coast
Of North Carolina.
Perkins, who boarded the Mohawk
at New York, was placed in irons im
mediately after the shooting and when
the ship docked here was given a pre
liminary hearing before United States
Commissioner Hugar.
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Charleston, S. C., Nov. 14.—Because
he was requested not to promenade
the deck in pajamas and a raincoat,
George Batchelor Perkins, a well
known Boston architect, shot and
filled a passenger on the steamer Mo-'
hawk and seriously wounded Captain
A. D. Ingram of the Mohawk and an
other passenger. Both will probably
-ecover.
The federal warrant charging Per
kins with murder was read to the
!prisoner. He did not attend the hear
ing, and authorities said he manifest
,ed a listless interest in what had hap
pened.
Had Gone on Fishing Trip,
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Mr. and Mrs. Hinman, Mr. Wright
and Captain Ingram were Bitting in
the companlonway of the ship when
Perkins appeared in pajamas and a
raincoat. The captain told him hel BECOME8 CHIEF OF 8TAFF TO
must wear more suitable apparel if he
wished to remain. Perkins immedi
ately drew a revolver and began firing,
Boston.—George Batchelor Perkins I staff of the United States army upos
left here Monday, bound for a tarpon the retirement Monday of Major Gen
fishing trip in southern waters. Her eral Wotherspoon.
had complained recently of sleepless- 1tie vacancy of major general create
ness and was forced to take an opiate ed by General Wotherspoon's retire
to remedy his complaint, according to ment will be filled by the nomination
Herbert H. Holton, his brother-in-law, of Brigadier General Frederick F,
at whose home in Swampscott he had I Funston, now in command at Vers
been staying recently. I Cruz.
ton. Perkins never carried a revol
ver, according to his brother-in-law.
PACIFIC BATTLE IMMINENT
German Fleet in Waters off Chile
Signifies Engagement
la Near.
Valparaiso, Nov. 14.—The "Japa
nese fleet" reported to have been seen
pff the Chilean coast apeears nq,w to
have been a German squadron' which
is cruising near Valparaiso. The re
port that Japanese waTshipB had been
seen near Punta Carranza was denied
officially.
Ib&TSt i°s, SSLtl T"
battle which occurred between Ger- "on- ^Ws ^lng experience provf
man and British warships on Nov. f'
which steamed into Valparaiso, was
delayed for a short time because of a
(protest made by British officials to the
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Chilean authorities. The German min
lister made satisfactory arrangements
I with the government and the war-
shipB continued to replenish their
has taken place off Chile. It is ex- ")rouf1Kh,s association with the In.
pected here, however, that the British
The taking to of provisions by the! This special qualification brought
I German cruisers Leipzig and Dresden,
STATE TROOPS LEAVE BUTTE
|Martial Law, Which Had Prevailed!
Since September 1, Has Been
Raised.
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from the city. The troops were sent i0W8.
here after trouble between factions
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mlner8'
unIon had reaulted
lnI
{rioting.
The governor's proclamation terml-1
fnating martial law and re-establishing!
the civil authority and the courts went
Into effect without any formality.
Lorlmer Asks Immediate Trial
Chicago, Nov. 14.—Former Senator
iWilllam Lorlmer, under indictment
•for participation in the wrecking of
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HUGH scon
General Scott has just been selected'
as chief of stafT of the army of the
United States.
I GEN. SCOTT HEMS II. S. ARMY
SUCCEED WOTH ER8POON.
Latter's Place to Be Filled by Funat
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ton, Now Commanding at Vefa Cruzi
—General Bliss Also Advanced.
Washington, Nov. 16. Brigadiel
General Hugh Scott has been selected
by President Wilson to be chief oi
Mr. Holton said that at times Per Brigadier General Tasker H. Blisi
kins had shown what might be consid- will become chief of the mobile armj
ered indications of mental derange-1 division and upon the retirement oi
ment. Major General Murray on April 20,
These little things we laid to an 1915, General Scott will be appointed
artistic temperament and they never a major general.
seemed at all serious," said Mr. Hol-| General Scott, who became assist
ant chief of staff when General Woth
espoon succeeded General Wood ai
chief, graduated from the Military
academy in 1875. He has spent all oi
his military life in the cavalry branch,
with the exception of periods when hi'
was engaged in staff or special sen
vice.
More closely than any officer of hit
rank in the army he has been identic
Bed with the Indians and semi-civilisi
ed wards of the government and a re
Aarkattle measure of success has fflti
tended his administration.
General Scott spent 17 years in th«
grade of first lieutenant &t lonely
western army posts, during the stag
nation in promotion which attended
gr«at„.beneflt, b«cauTM
»af trlbf h«
and German fleets may meet again hbe,rT ™riouf Ungues, especially in
at any moment.
became an
the Indlan
8l«n
language.
hlm much delicate and difficult seri
vice to the great credit of his record.
Only about two years ago he earned
the great gratitude of the administra*
tion by going single-handed into a
swarm of angry Indians in Arizona in
tent on the war path and bringing
suj-1tbem ways
vailed in Butte since the arrival of the formatlon gained
national guard on Sept. 1, was raised -tnrnB
(last week when the soldiers departed
of peace,
FOOD PRICES NEARLY NORMAL
Getting Back Where They Were Be
fore European War
Began.
Chicago, Nov. 12.—Food prices an
again back where they were befort
the war, according to a story printed
.PT. I In the Daily News, and based on in-
at
i0Cal department
stores.
Comparative prices are given as fot
Cane sugar ..$0.05 $0.08 *0.05ft®
Beet sugar no supply no supply.06
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the Salle street bank, of which he I of visitors wen hen yesterday to
was part owner, appeared before Judge I witness the unveiling of the monn
Kersten and demanded an immediate I ment of the state of Missouri to Gen
trial. I eral James Shields in the court house
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.45 .35
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8.00 6.90
.93 .68
Prunes ...... .10
Flour (bbU.. 6.90
Potatoes ibu.) .69
Moat Unique Political Record. Kil
Carrolton, Mo., Nov. 14.—Hundred*
squan here. General Shields was ths
Oklahomana Give Car of Flour. I first territorial governor of Oregon, he
Oklahoma City, Okla., Nov. 14.— served a full term aa United States
|One car of flour was donated at Okla-1 senator from Illinois, he was one of ..
Ihoma City for Belgian families by the the first two senaton from Minne
[millers ot this and other cities in this I sota and he served out an unexpired
Iricinlty. I term aa senator from Missouri.'
Senator Newlanda 10 Ahead. I Millionaire Breprer Killed Nuree HeH|
Reno, Nev., Nov. 12.—With the offl-1 San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 14.—Mist
jclal canvass ot halt the counties inl Emma Burgemeister, a trained nura^lM.
(Nevada completed, Senator F. G. New-1 at whose htyne Otto Koehler, million
Itands was leading for re-election over I aire president of the San Antonio 5
iBamuel Piatt Republican, by ten I Bnwlng Association, was shot 3
Irotes. killed, and who Is under arrest is be|
lieved to be ln no danger from th«
|Selglana Give Relief Fund HflOQJOOO. wound in her wrist which she is aald
London, Nov. 14.—The American to have infiloted after the death
Icommission for nlief In Belgium has Koehler. She la said to have made *&'
Irecelved a check on the Bank of Eng- statement that the shooting of Koeht
{land for $3,000,000, which was contri- er was to protect herself and
Ibuted by prominent Belgians interest- Daschiel, another trained nurse whQ
lid ln the relief of their countrymen. lived with her.
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