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French Admit Their Offensive Movement in Lorraine Has Been Cheoked.

GERMANS RENEW DESPERATE ASSAULT TO TAKE MUEHLATJSEN

Two Austrian Army Corps Reinforce Germans In Alsace-Lorraine, and French Reserves May Be

Called on to Hold Line.

PARIS, Aug. 22.—'Severe fighting on in' enormous scale Is reported at numerous points throughout Belgium tonight. Indications that the first decisive conflict to the war is well in progress are numerous. The tide of tattle is expected to ebb and flow for at least three or four days. The first Germany army of the Moselle Is in action endeavoring to penetrate the advance lines of the allies' center along u. front that, broadly speaking, commences, between Gembloux and Charltrio, (.overs both banks of the Sambre and extends eastward to a point on ibe Meuse, near Dinant. The Germans have passed down both banks of the Meuse, around Namur, and the forts of the latter place are being subjected to a heavy bombardment.

The German army of the Meuse has swept through Brussels westward. The cavalry patrols are reported in great force in the vicinity of Ghent, and as far northwest as Ostend, but whether these cities have been occupied in force, the official war bureau professes to have no knowledge. It is stated, however, that the German infantry has not yet crossed the Dendre river, although the cavalry patrols are declared to have penetrated to Audenarde, apparently feeling out the strength of the "French front that defends Lille.

Little information regarding the situation in Alsace-Lorraine is forthcoming. It was admitted at the war office that the offensive movement in Lojttalne has -been checked through the appearance in front of the French advance of "an overwhelming force," supposed to be the German army of the, Saar. The advance on Strassburg, which had been unopposed, was checked as was the movement against Metz and the French army retired to the protection of the frontier forts. It is whispered that an offensive movement on the part of the Germans in upper AlsaGe, close to the Swiss frontier, narrowly missed outlanding the French army from Belfort and that it was driven back after stubborn fighting which is still in progress.

That the Germans are renewing their general assault on Muelhausen in a desperate effort to retake that city and that the French army under Gen. Paul Pau, the one armed hero of Froeschviller, is being hard pressed, is believed here. But the French war office insists that the situation is excellent and it is suggested in official circles that a surprise is in store for the GermansIt is stated that the two Austrian army corps, which crossed Lake Con-, stance, has reinforced the Germans in Alsace-Lorraine and this may necessitate General Joffre bringing additional troops from the French reserve line to defend the forts along the frontier.

The government is being urged to make reprisals on the German prisoners now in its hands to offset the alleged cruelites of the Germans. War officials admit that the prisoners are to receive no particular favors and will be kept in strict confinement in the concentration camps. "Life is all that we can owe them," declared a high official of the war office today.

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POPE MAY BE NAMED EARLYJNCONCLAVE

ROME, Aug. 22-—With preparations going rapidly forward for the con clave at which the successor to Pope Pius will be selected and cardinals from every Catholic Country now endeavoring to reach Roine, the world will probably be given a new pope within less than two weeks.

Cardinal Dela Volpe, the cardinal camerlengo, head of the church during the interregnum, today announced that the conclave will open August 31. It is believed in Rome that the cardinals engaged in the solemn election in the Vatican will choose the new pope within four or five days. Four ballots will be cast daily, but it Is not likely that the'first votes will be taken before the second day of the conclave. On the first day, the cardipals will assemble in the Pauline chapel, where the mass will be celebrated and they will receive the communion. On the day following the members of the sacred college will also celebrate mass privately.

It is generally believed that jan Italy'n is certain of election »s the new

U. S. WEATHER REPORT.

TEMPERATURE RECORD. 6 a. 67 Noon 84 9 a. 77 3 p. 88 6 p. 83 7 p. 83

LOCAL CONDITIONS AT 7 P. M., AUG. 22, 1014. Temperature, 83 highest temperature, Saturday, 88 lowest temperature last night precipitation. 0 direction of wind, southeast velocity of wind, eight miles per hour state of weather, clear relative humidity, 44 per cent.

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TERRE HAUTE—Fair Sunday. INDIANA—Fair south. thunder showers north portion Sunday Monday showers and somewhat cooler. Moderate to fresh south winds shifting to northwest.

ILLINOIS—Thunder showers Sunday in north and Sunday afternoon and night in southern portions: somewhat cooler at night Monday fair moderate south winds except fresh to strong over north portion and shifting to northwest by S*unday night.

Time Limit Expired At 10 O'clook Last Night, But Germany Gave No Answer.

AN OPEN DECLARATION OF ^TAR IS A POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENT

United States Expresses Faith in Japan's Intentions to Maintain China's Integrity and Return Kiao-Chow.

WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 22.— When the time limit of Japan's ultimatum to Germany expired at 10 o'clock .tonight (Washington time) no word or intimation regarding developments in Berlin or Tokio had been received at the Japanes.e or German embassies or the state department. Japanese Ambassador Chinda said at that time that he expected no word before tomorrow morning. A confidential clerk remained at the state department to notify Secretary Bryan at his home in case word was received. The Japanese embassy, however, planned to close for the 'night at 10:30. BarOn Chinda went to the embassy from his residence shortly before 10 o'clock but remained only a few minutes. Charge Haimhausen, of the German embassy, said just before 10 o'clock that he did not expect to receive any word whatever from his government. All officials believed that official news of Germany's action would not be available before tomorrow, unless some announcement to the press was made at Tokio or London.

Little hope that Germany would capitulate to Japan's terms, or even parry with a note requiring further negotiations, was entertained by an official here tonight.

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VOL. XXXIX —NO 84 TERRE HAUTE, IND, SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1914.

PROGRESSIVES ARE PREPARING ACTIVE CAMPAIGN IN STATE

Republicans Puzzled Over What Disposition to Make of Watson, Hemenway and Other Leaders of Old Guard.

By Special Correspondent. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Aug. 22. Within the next few days a meeting will be held here for the purpose of making more definite plans for the formal opening of the campaign in September. The progressive stafe committee at a recent meeting decided that the keynote speech shall be delivered sometime during the week beginning September 14, but no arrangements were made as to the place of the meeting: or the exact date.

Chairman Korbly, of the democratic state committee, has been delayed in making arrangements for the campaign opening because congress is still in session and he has not been able to hear from Senator Shlvely, Senator Kern and the members of congress when they can come home. However, Chairman Korbly and his associates will go ahead with the arrangements for the campaign opening without waiting for the adjournment of congress, which is liable to be in session longer than expected because of the conditions created by the war in Europe.

The republican state committee has not made any definite plans for the campaign opening and its managers are somewhat up in the air as to what course to pursue. They have arranged with Senator Borah of Idaho to deliver a speech here September 17 and Senator Borah may be called upon to deliver the keynote speeA for the party. He is one of the Roosevelt republicans who refused to Join the progressive party two years Ago and the republican leaders are hopeful he will be able to arouse a great deal of Interest among the bull moosers.

Echoes of the Past.

It appears that the republicans are short of material for campaign purposes. They are without the long list of speakers they formerly had and they have been placed in a position where they must either rely upon James E. Watson, James A. Hemenway, Charles W. Fairbanks and other members of the old guard or accept speakers of minor ability. In fori.ier years Watson, Hemenway, Fairbanks and other members of that crowd were the big drawing cards on the republican side.

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river near Merom Friday evening. She was in a bathing party of twenty young people from the Merom Chautauqua and was sweDt into deeD water by the stream. Her body had not been recovered late Saturday.

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German Soldiers Hard Put—Drinking Water From Pails Without Stopping

These German soldiers are on a forced march. There Is no time to stop even for a drink of water. So each thirsty soldier takes a drink from the pail as ne passes, hardly slackening his pn.ee.

LONDON, Aug. 23.—England la ^ery serious tonight. Everywhere the question is: Will the allied lines hold? They are being subjected to the final test. The overwhelming German force moving with phenomenal rapidity throughout Northern Belgium, is being flung directly at the French boundary. Along a long battle line the allied outposts have been thrown back on their main body. The right wing of the army of the Meuse Is hurling its force toward Lille. The left, aided by the German army of»the Moselle, Is hammering at the Namur forts and swinging wide out of range of their fire, is pouring down on the allies' center near Charleroi. All day the fighting has raged. The war office Is silent on the result. If the line breaks- It will be a herculean task to re-form along the French frontier. The seriousness of the situation is evidenced in the conduct of all of the high government officials. But they insist they are confident of the final result Additional reinforcements are believed to have been hurried across the channel, but the war office remains mute on the subject

REAL BAnLE GOING ON

ANTWERP (via The Hague), Axcg. 22.—That the real battle of the war, which will determine whether the allied line is to hold agaiftst the German attack, is in progress along the line extending from Namur to Charleroi, was announced at the war office tonight.

The battle began at daylight and was still in progress when darkness set in. The Germans assaulted the French line, which is reported strongly entrenched, and the fighting was of the most desperate character. Only meagre information has reached here, but the war office insists that the allied line has withstood the German artillery fire and frequent charges by the German Infantry. The Namur forts are holding out all efforts of the Germans to silence their fire having failed.

READING, Pa., Aug. 22.—After breaking the track record for a mile, making it in 1:10, George Evans, well known motorcycle racer, was killed in an accident at the stadium here late this afternoon.. Evans had dropped to second place in a 10-mile professional race when the leader's machine skidded, Evans was forced to .the fence, catapulted to the track. He hen was run over and killed by R. W. Hagy. Tommy Dedge, of Washington, broke his collar bone when he tumbled, over the two men,

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RUSSIAN NOBLES DIE LEADING THEIR TROOPS

ST. PETERSBURG. Aug. 22.—Rus sla Is moving fast In Austria and eastern Prussia. An army of invasion numbering hundreds of thousands and oomprlsing the picked forces of the Russian military forces, is penetrating the frontiers at a number of points, the exact location of which is withheld. The war office declares that the enemy Is toeing slowly but surely pressed back. The Austrian opposition Is admittedly not so serious as is the German. The official description of the fighting is "desperate." Among the killed and wounded are reported some of the best known nobles of the empire. The crack regiments from St Petersburg and Moscow, officered by members of the royal family, and scions of nofole houses, have been in action In Prussia. These regiments are reported to have covered themselves with glory, riding through the Prussian forces and carrying fortified positions at fearful cost to themselves. Only members of the families know of their loss, however, as the government refuses to post any lists of dead at this time.

LONDON, Aug-. 22.—The press bureau announced receipt of a report that two Dutch steamers, In addition to those blown up by mines In the North sea, had been sunk by the under water defenses in the Gulf of Pinland. The steamers had cleared from Swedish ports, it was said. "Great Britain has not yet laid any mines," the bureau stated, "but the admiralty reserves the utmost liberty of retaliatory action against this new form of warfare."

It was believed that the Dutch ships were victims of mineB laid by the German fleet which, at the time It bombarded Libau, Russia, was reported to have sprinkled the Gulf of Finland with mlnos.

PROTESTGERMAN MINES

LONDON, Aug. 23.—In a formal statement the official bureau formally charges Germany with violation of The Hague convention in mine laying in the North sea and warns neutral shipping of the grave danger they incur in traversing that body. "Mines appear to have been scattered indiscriminately along the ordinary trade routes," the statement said. "On the chance of catching warships of the allies or their merchantmen. The mines violate The Hague convention in that they do not become harmless after a certain period of immersion, and in that they afe not laid in connection with any ^iencial mili}*::M of Wei

tary operation."

SHANGHAI, China, Aug. 22.—J»D«n is believed certain to throw down the gauntlet to Germany in the next few hours.

The Japanese battle fleet, ma9e up of the first squadron of battleships and armored cruisers, was reported tonight lying off the Shoan Tung peninsula. As soon as the time limit of Japan's ultimatum to Germany expires the admiral commanding is expected to be ordered by Tokio to strike. He will bombard the defen. of Kiao-Chow and a JaDa.no ^^"^1 ready on trans^^M^. loca

LONDON, Aug. 22.—There are grave fears entertained for the safety of the great war fleet now blockading the German coast. The disaster to two Danish steamers admitted for the first time by the official bureau tonight means more than the loss of the ships. It means that the North sea is fairly strewn with mines, that the efforts of the traveling fleets to sweepthem from the seas have failed. The great British fleet assigned to the. task of keeping the German warships impotently moored tinder the great guns of Heligoland and Wilhelmshaven is in constant peril. A single, mine might cost England one of her best defenses, and this hazard is admittedly far greater than is the possibility of a night raid by destroyers. or submarines.

PARIS, Aug. 22.'—The French war office tonight, in reviewing the sit-. nation and admitting that France has so far been unable to check the German advance, says: "France is^resolved to do everything to liberate the territory of her ally. It has been impossible for strategic reasons to precipitatp earlier defense, but the engagements,in to which we have entered are the more binding on that account."

LONDON, Aug. 22.—It is now believed certain that the British army on the continent is engaged with the Germans. Intimations of that fact were' contained in some of the official announcements today, although all details were sternly refused. The situation is admittedly very serious, as the allied armies are now facing a concerted German attack extending through Belgium along the entire French frontier of Lorraine and through the mid-1 die of upper Alsace almost to the Swiss frontier.

LONDON, Aug. 22.—A dispatch from Ostend, via Paris, to the Exchange Telegraph company, untimed, but dated today received tonight, says: "The civil guard and all citizens have been disarmed in anticipation of the German occupation in force. TJp to'the present hour, the German cavalry, whioh is near the city in force, has not.entered, There are no Belgian troops here, and. there will be no resistance."

PARIS, Aug. 23—(Sunday).—Paris believes the first big general battle is on. Leaving a council of ministers at midnight, the minister of the interior told the press correspondent: "The battle is on. I know no more."

PARIS, Aug. 22.—The war office tonight declared the Germans are being driven from the department of Muerthe-Et-Moselle. The official staff declares the German infantry and artillery, which have been holding the twenty miles of line from Briey to Longuyon, were attacked today by a French column, which charged the German entrenchments and drove them out at the point of the bayonet. The war office asserts the German retreat was precipitate and their losses were heavy. ,t

PARIS, Aug. 22.—The fighting in Upper Alsace is believed to be of the most serious oharacter. Specials from Basle say that the Swiss army has been mobilized along the frontier to prevent a violation of Swiss territflSf by the defeated anny. The sound of artillery fire is declared to be plainly heard at Basle.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—Announcement that 7 per cent of all Ger-' man shipping is in British hands, 20 per cent more "bottled up" in neutral ports, and that the Austrian fleet has been driven by the Anglo-French fleet into the Adriatic, was made tonight by the British embassy upon advices from the London war office. v--

LONDON, Aug. 23.—A news agency dispatch from Tien-Tsin, China^5™^-^ says that a Japanese fleet of warships, convoying a fleet of troop trans-' ports, was off Kiao Chan, late Saturday waiting for the Japan ultimatum to Germany to expire. The fleet was awaiting wireless orders to bombard the Chinese port should Germany fail to agree to the terms of the Japanese ultimatum before the time limit expired.

PABIS, Aug. 22J—Important developments in connection with the French Mediterranean fleet now co-operating in the Adriatic with the British squadron of battle cruisers axe expected soon. It is believed that the Austrian seaport of Cattaro, which has the best harbor on the Adriatic, will soon be taken by the French, and that they are also planning a bombardment of Pola. the chief Austrian naval base on the Adriatio.

PARIS, Aug. 22.—Paris is exceedingly worked up over the charges that the Germans have violated, the rules of civilized warfare. The war office announced that the French government was determined to demand that the various neutral powers who are signitary to the international convocations dealing with the rules for international warfare demand that Germany change its tactics and respect the pledges to which is a party.

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tion of which is kept secret, will land under the protection of his guns. Despite an absolute censorship in Tokio, it is positively known here that Japan has left nothimg to chance. Con^ vinced th§£ Germany would defy her and tell her if she wanted Kiao-Chow "to come and take it," the Japanese general staff has been ready to strike hard since noon yesterday- Whether there will be serious opposition from the German forces, or whether they will content themselves with a brief defense and then surrender, no one here will hazard a guess. But that Japan and Germany are on the verge tof a war declaration is absolutely Mr-