Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 56, Number 50, Jasper, Dubois County, 2 October 1914 — Page 6

OF LOUVAIN GEN. FRENCH TELLS HOW US HAVE FACED GIANT GERMAN GUNS WEEKLY COURIER BEN EO. OOANE. Publisher. JASPER INDIANA

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If they will censor the war poem. too. all sill be forgiven.

Th. ant incise society Is making sonic head.w.. ui 1 This bi -:!. of "sweeping 'be mas" Is m rely a figure of spa SCO. If the ar should top the manufae ture of dyes, tho women could wear white Life insurar.ee policlos of aviators continue to full due with monotonous) Only a ra:b man l fried potato in a rant these days. If anybody predicted the present trouble in Europe be ought to bo s named of himself. England s poet laureate was right there with a poem He pepper dasay like a machine gun. Our Idea of an Inaccessible hermitage would be a spot alumni anywhere in the Atlantic ocean. Czar Nicholas mav be a bins!! but he has the largest personal pro- j noun of all the rulers. The proposed boycott on meats and eggs will be about aa effective as the average hunger strike They have found a lockjaw sorum. How timely. Never was there a better time for locking up jawa. The poet didn't have a European monarch in m:nd h- n he said man wants but little here below. la the army a man becomes a unit, and he isn't a man again until be ia dead or in the hospital. This year's peace prise may go to some mild-mannered married man who never quarrels with his wife. Many of the warships that hava been sunk in the dispatches bid fair to come up again on the fighting line. The ir name being dreadcaught. why do those commanding the ships show such eagerness to keep under cover? The horrors of war" are being carefully suppressed, but not with the idea of sparing anybody's feelings Who can blame the sun for having an eclipse, considering what a lot of trouble It has to look upon all the time? Most of those pictures you tee of battles in the air are merely the artist's conception of what be expects to take place. For a war where there are no war correspondents allowed the European catastrophe certainly is keeping a lot of reporters busy. It Is dangerous to be lending evea a friend money these days. The fashion of declaring a moratorium is growing steadily in favor. A wireless via Sayvllle reports 30 English battleships were destroyed by Zeppelins, but wait until the re port comes via Winsted. Submarines and aeroplanes would be more satisfactory as opponents in warfare if they gave any advance indication of whom they Intended to hit Time certainly does bring about some extraordinary changes. An actor has just been sued for $5o.OOo. The memory of a trip to a summer resort wfll be a mighty poor subett tute for an overcoat next winter. An untaught California artist is called the sculptor of the sands.'' He d be a good chap to fix up the new styles in European boundary lines Military strategists have Invented a complete set of euphemistic phrases for all occasions. What could be happier than ' seeking covering positionsr The war is helping the Rum peas mountain reports, according to dis patches. Tourists are evidently trying to get as far above the bullet at possible. So long as the horrors of war on ibis side of the Atlantic are chiefly confined to going without caviar. Widow Cliquot and Mumm's extra dry. Americans will save money. The price of perfume has gone up. but there is plenty of good soap made In this country, and there Is no embargo on the supply of water. Another horror of war Is discovered in the fact that American bor vlvants will now have to drink their A merles n wines without imported labels A Paris dressmaker predicts that woman of the future 111 wear clothes that are essentially mannish, bat b Is not predicting anything mors than ta women are predicting tbetaselvss.

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' These photographs, just received from F.utup- ivr .:me idea of th- ap pcarancc of f.ouvain after the deatruttion of that once beautiful Belgian c.ty by the Germans. The main picture shows the stud ills' .uartcr and the insert a glimpee of 'he Place de la KcnecrnV. whtre were many hotels and cafes.

COMBATANTS M LOSE ALONG THE RIVER AiSNE Hundreds Die in Charges Which Really Gam Little for Either Contestant. PARIS CLAIMS GAINS ON WEST German Line Holding Firm, and Even Making Advances. Declares Berlm Series of Battles Seems Likely to Continue for Seme Time Omcial Announcement Frof. Berlin Says There Is Nothing New to Report. While the battle of the allies and the Hermans continues along the entire front in France there has been relatively no change in the position of the armies The hardest fighting ap par-ntly is proceeding on the eastern and western ends of the lines. tb allies on the west end are endeavoring to encircle the Hermans and on tb" east the Germans are trying to break through the allies' lines In the vicinity of Verdun In the center a lull in the w a r fare is reported German Attack All Along Line I .or don. Sept. 2 Terrific- fighting ia in progress all along the great 120mile front of the battle of the Aisne. the French and British continuing their desperate efforts to turn Heneral von Kluck's right wing simultaneously with a vigorous effort on the part of the kaiser s army to break throurh the - enter of the allies' line. A special dispatch from W T Mas sey. the Ixmdon Telegraph correspond ent. from a town in France the name of which is deleted by a censor, says The situation on the Alane and Oise appears to be this ' The Germans clearly regard this as the best road to Paris and are determined to make another attempt to gain It. While continuing to engag he British lines, they are throwing almost their entire weight against the French troops on our MR " The allies are making progress against the enemy's right flank, according to an official statement, and. although the Paris war office admits that the Hermans gained some ground it adds tfcat the territory w immediately regained and the invader er repulsed On the heights of the Mease, wher s 'he Herman attack has been the strengst the French are holding ttV groin d. but the Germans have ur reeded in maintaining their posit ion on ire w est nans oi me river. ire 1es advices from Berlin declsre that '. rmans hare silenced th- forte 'Mh of Verdun on the Meuse Th Waiter's general staff claims to hav repulsed with Inferior numbers the at tack on the right flank near th Somroe river Near Reims attacks and c unter-at-tacks have been In progress along the trenches of the opposing srmies. and la the fighting an und St Quentin the Fnrth and English h;n- not yet sue ceeded in dislodging the Germans or in advancing to the railroad lite. French troops surrounded and an nihilafed the One Hundred-ti r-gimen of Orman reserves, approximately 3 00n men according to a Rome dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph It did rot give the place or date Claims Made by Germans. london. Sept 2. -Messages which

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roe .rem tierm-n purees carry reItons which are diametrically the opposite of the foregoing. These say that the flanking moreuient of the :' lies on the Herman right wing have fail d and tua' the battl- Mi i come to a standstill. These messages sa 1 1 - ! . no lighting on the tenter, but that the Herman left has taken Varent.es, attacked the fort to the south of Verdun and repulsed sortl s from Vrd.in and Toul. The Hermans are said t

It also is claimed that French troops in French Lerraine and on the border of Alsace have been re puls I Something Must d e Way Soon. London. Sept if. Almost sitnuttaI neoosly the two great hammer strokes , in the battle in northern France have fallen and some decisive result must ' be announced before long. The allies have struck the German right wing and the Hermans, on their ' part, have hurled themselves against j the French line between Verdun and ! Toni The commencement of these two at- , tacks in earnest was disclosed by the j French official statement issued this afternoon, but little is told of how they are progressing The action against the German j right is described as a violent one. la ! which the French left encountered an . army corps composed of troops hieb the Germans brought from the peal -of Lorraine and the Vosges The clash occurred in the district between Tergnier and St. Quentin. so thta the allies have made a considerable advance to the northwest since the last mention was made of this part of their army. The French report admits that the Germans have succeeded in gaining a footing on the Meuse heights and have pushed forward in the direction of St. Mihiel. bombarding the forts of Paroches and the Roman Camp, which face each other across the Meuse. The communication, however, adds that, on the other hand, to the south of Verdun the French remain masters of the heights of the Meuse and that their troops, debouching from Toul. have advanced in the region of Beaumont Little News From Berlin Berlin, via I.onoon. Sept. 27 The following announcement, dated September 24. has been given out at army headquarters: In the western theater of the war today there have been some minor engagements, but nothing of importance has transpired. 'There Is no news from Belgium or the eastern war area Allies Gam Ground. On the Battle Front. S-pt. :S The H rman offensive was extremely vig o roiis today at the western end of the long line stretching along the rivers Olae. Aisne and Woe vre. The allied troops. ho gap hd been filled with freshly arrived re nforeements. not only repeatedly thrust back the masses of Hermans thrown against them but eventually -i;rabl- ground and the capture of Peronne. about which town the flercest engagement occurred Many Germans Near Reims. Further toward the esst, near Merry au-Bac on the Aisne north of Reims, there appears to be concentrated a large German force which has stolidly occupied strong Intrenrhmenta from which it Is most difficult to dislodge them Hereabouts the fighting ha been of a desultory character, with, however, sllgh advantage in favor of the allies The men of both armies in this vicinity seem to be enjoying their Od the eastern wing the Hermans

a .-I- hrowir; . riormous mästet of men -ir.'i.-.o the French troop protecting Hie line of defensive forts above V rdun. but ut to the present their fforts, although resting immense sacr fn o. have been vain and the French line remain intact. GENERAL NEWS OF THE WAR Canadian Troops on the Way. The major part of Canada's littest ii n t in gent of tSjMI men ft r service

Europe is already on its way to the front in 20 transports heavily armed and guarded by British men-of-war in sufficient force to prevent any attack by Herman cruisers. German Captive List Cut. The Central News Ari niy at Lon don has received the following dis- ! patch from Rome "A message from iBaffraaa cays the general staff having agreed to the complete official lits of j prisoners, has found it necessary to ! admit that the total already an j nounced was erroneous The aggre I gate number of prisoners in Herman hands Is now reduced from 2"0.000 to 50.000. of whom 30,000 are Russians." Belgians Capture Germans. I The Rotterdam Hourant says that Belgian troops are showing at many placet from which they have long been absent. Two thousand Hermans were captured, it says, on September ' .'' between Malines and Aershot. Two 1 hundred officers among them will be i kept at Antwerp. The remainder of the prisoners will go to Kngland Italy already has nearly the nun dred thousand men under arms The j majority are camped in Iximbardy U. S. Envoy Escapes Bombs. The latest exploit of the Herman air forces nearly created vacant iff in the I'nlted States diplomatic service. A Taube aeroplane, profiting by the autemnal haze, flew unperceived over Pari Sunday morning until it wan nearly above Eiffel tower. An it reached this point it dropped a bomb ; which fell in the Avenue dn Trocadero. making a hole in the macadam roadway. In exploding it killed an aged solicitor and severely wounded his granddaughter walking home with , hini from church Th pot where the bomb exploded ' was I'OO yard. from the chancellery of the American embassy. Ambassador Herrick and Arthur H. Frarier. the second secretary of the embassy. ' walked over the spot where tho bomb exploded at 1 30 on their wa to the chancellery, and returning in an open motcr car. passed over the same point at 11:10. thereby missing the bomb by Ave minutes. Ruasians Occupy Przemysl. The Russisns are in Promysl. acI cording to a dispatch received at tandon from Petro.rd. The Austrian garrison has been obliged tc concen- ! irate exclusively in the eastern forts. ( and. with the triumphant entrance of th Russians into the city itself great t numbers of inhabitsnts followed the j Austrian soldiers and took refuse in the forts For the garrison to hold for i mnnv days is ronnidered almost a military impossibility The Russians hnve raptured ilie it or Rzezsow. The line from Prz 'nysl to Cracowis now bajfc ved to be almost. If not 1 finite indefentl 'd, and the Russian problem for the prestrit is merely a problem of rapid marching and maintaining a ronstant following of supply train fr'im the northeast Tells of German Casualties. An oucial report, issued nt Berlin, gives the total German casualties killed, wounded and missing to dato as 104,S1 A list Just issued announces le.;?7 casualties In addition to those previously reported The tabulation of the figure covers nearly four columns In the Rerllner Tageblatt. The total casualties Include Killed. l.r..74; wounded, ß.k 0f, missing. 21007.

London The oftk'i.il jr Imi m Issued a re..irt ftolil Field Vat !;a Sir John French's In adipiarters on the British oeration in France Tho text follows: The enemy is still maintaining ltliu elf along the whole front anil in OfdsW to do to ia lino wing into the light tie tai hmenta composed of unit from tind:ffTiit formal ions. ih,. ;niio intny. r Kern-, itinl land v. lir. a i.- shown by the uniforms of the prisoners recently captured. Our progress, although alow on ateoui.: of the sircnrMi of the defense. position against which we are pressing, haa in certain directions (:- eon tin bv oun. bui the present battle may well last fi r some i!. : i more belore a doeialon is reached, since it now approximate in iii I- to rieKe ; u i. ire The Hcruiaii.., are making list, of searchlights Thi f..ct tooled with tlu ir great ntr ngth in heavy aitiliery. 1.ms to the supposition that they are employing Materia v hit h may have be collected tar Um lege of Paria. C.nf cfnt of the F.txult. "The n;i' lire of tli ,:. . .-ml situation fter the operation', of the eighteenth, nineteenth tnd twentieth, cannot be better rotnitatrtiad than as expressed r t-nily in a in ighborlng Irnich commander to his corps: Having tepcK. d repeated and violent counter attacks r le b tl eeneim. we Pave it feeling that .. ii its been victorious. So tar n tiie British are concerned, the co irse of cvt tits during these three. das can be described in a few words During Ft.rtay. eighteenth, artillery fire was kepi up intermittently by both Sides during daylight At night the Germans counter attacked certain ior lions of our tine, supporting the advance nf their infantry as ulwas by a heavy bt uibard merit. But the strokes were not delivered with great vigor arid ceased about J a. BL During the day's fighting an aircraft gun ef tinThird army corps .succeeded In bringing down a Oat BUM ai-rojlane. "News was ret eived also thut a body of French cavalry had tU10llBlnd part of the railway to the north, cutting, at least temporarily . one line of coiiiniuni cation winch is of partiiular importance to the enemy. German Attack Stopped. "On Saturday, the nineteenth, tho bom bald in en w;;s resumed hy the Her mans at an early hour and continued Intermittently under reply from our guns. Some of their infantry advanced from oseer apparently nitk Um inten tion of attacking, b it i n coining under fire they retired Otherwise the day was uii venttul. except for the activity of the artillery, which is a matter of normal routine rather than an event. "Another hostile aeroplane was brought down by us. and one of our aviators succeeded in dropping several bombs over the Herman line, one Incendiary bomb falling with consider able effect on a transport park near La Fere. A buried store of the enemy's ammunition of war also was found not far from the Aisne. ten wagon loads of live shells and two wagons of cable being dug up. Traces were discovered of large quantities of stores having been burned all tending to show that as far back as t lie Aisne th Herman retirement was hurried. "There was a strong wind d .ring the day. accompanied by a driving rain. This militated against the aerial reconnaissance Several German Attacks Fail. "On Sunday, the twentieth, nothing of important e occurred until the afternoon, when there wa a break in the clouds and an interval of feeble sunshine, which was hardly powerful enough to warm the soaking troops. The (it rinar.H took advantage of this brief spell of fins weather to make several attacks against dlff r nt pohsPJ. Thee were all repulsed with loss to the enemy, but the casualties incurred by us were by no means light 'In one section of our firing line the occupants of the trenches were under the impression that they heard a mill tary band in the enemy's line just be fore the attack developed. It is now known that the Herman Infantry started their advance with bands playing The offensive against one or two points was renewed at dusk, with no greater success. The brunt of the re sistance naturally hat fallen on the Infantry In spite Of the fact that tin y hnve been drench- 1 to the skin for some day and their trenches have been deep in mud water, and In spite of the Inc.ssant nUht alarms and the almost continuous bombardment to Which they have be. n uli v.l. they h.ie OS i . oMMMM been ready for the euere) H mtry when the hittn attempted to assault, and they have h- .ten then bock with gretit loss. In deed, the sigh' of tronps coming up has Peen n p.sitiv. relief i ir long, trying hours of inaction under shell Ore. German Cannon Fire Fails. "TIM object of the great proportion of artilWy the Hermans employ la to beat down the resistance of their enemy by concentrated and prolonged flre--to shatter their nerve with high explosives before the infantry attne't Is launched. They scMn to have relied on dolrg this with us. but they hnve not done so, though it has taken them several costly experiments to discover this fact. "From statements of prisoners It ap pears thai they have been greatly disappointed by the moral effe t pm duced by their heavy guns, which, despite the actual losses Inflicted, has not been at alt commensurate with the

colossal expenditure of amiuunition vliich has b-en wasted "By this it is not implied th;tt thtlr artillery lire is not good It L-i more than good it is cellent. llut the Hrltlsh soldier ie a difficult person to Impress or depi - ,..M by Immense shells tilled with a high Wplnntls, which detonate with terrific violence ami form craters lajfO enough I. act as graVs for five horses. Scoff at German Shells "The QajnjaM howitzer shells are from eight to nine tnghtl in caliber, and on Impact they send up columns of greasv black smoke. On act. shut of this they are irreverently dubbed coal boxes.' black Marias.' or lack Johnsens' by Ihe soldiers. ' 'Men who tak.- tui,gs a, thl I spirit are. it seems, likely to throw out the calculations based M loss of morale so carefully in: med by the Herman military philosophers. A -ui. t.i'.le amount of information lias been prteajsod Horn prisoners It has he. n gathered that our bom hnrilment on tit- i ratal product d a great impression. I h 1 opinion also is reported that our lata itry makes such good use of the ground, that the Her man companies are 1. nnated by our rifle rire before the soldier can be seen. "From an oftMau .ii..ry captured b the First army en;. it appears thai one ol the Herman corps contains an extraordinary DstXttUe of urlts. If the composition of the other corp.-- ia Sim ilar it may be a: s'jtnd that :he pre ent ffi. i-ncy of the enemy's fortes I in no comparable with what it was when the war commenced. Germans Lose tfrry Officers. "The losses In otl'u em nre noted as having been aspecbMy severe A brigade is stau .1 t,. 1,. commanded hy a major: sonn companies of foot guard b one ear volunte rs. while after the battle of Alontinirp.il one regiment lost fifty five out of sixty officers. "The prisoner:- rccehtlv cai-tured ap protiate the fact that the march on I ';t r is has failed, and that their forte are retreating, but state that the oh Jeet of this movement is exjilaimd by the officers as being to withdraw into closer touch with the supports which have staved too far In the rear "The officer are also endeavoring to encourage t lie troops by telling them that they will be at home fo Christina. A large number of the llim believe 1 1 ... t Muy ire bellten "Among the items of news are the following: Recently a idiot and observer of the Koyal Hying corps were forced b a break ige in their aeropluii" to descend in the enemy's lines The pilot managed to pancake his ma chine down to. earth and the two es cap'd into some thick undergrowth in the woods. "The ent i " ' aim' Up and soie.i and smashed the machine, but did not search for our men with much zeal. The latter lay hid till dark and then found their way to the Aisne. r.cross which tin y swam. raching amp In safety but barefooted. "Numerous float rut bridges have by now been throu n amiss-the Aisne and some of the permanent bridges have been repaired under lire On the twentieth Lieutenant (name deleted' of Third signal corps. Royal Kngineers. was ifnfortunatelv drowned wlnl" attempting to swim acrosa the river w ith a cable in order to open up freh telegraph communication on tho north. Telephone Aid to Spies. "Espionage is still carried on by the enemy to a consider able e-tent He cently the suspicions of some of the French troops were aroused by com Ing across a farm from which the horses had bt en removed. After some search they discovered a telephone which was connected by an under ground cable with the (orman lines, and the owner of the farm paid the penalty In the usual way in war for his trencher). "After seme cases of village lighting, which occurred earlier In the war. it was reported by some of our officers that the Hermans hud atti 't.pted to approach to close quarters by fore ing prisoners to tnsreb in front of them. The Hermans have recently re peated the same trick on a larger t hle against the French, as Is shown by the copy of an order Issued by the Kreuch officials. It Is therein ref-rred tti as s ruse, but if that term can be accepted it is a distinctly illegal ruse Charges Tricks to Germans. "'Puring a roc tit nii:ht attack.' the order reads, 'the Hermans drove a col umri of French prisoners In front of them. This action is to be hrousht to ;he notice of all our troop. il in order to put them on their guard ngiiinst such a dantntdly ruse. (SI In ' i.ler that every soldi r may know hov. the HetM.nis tr.'.i' their prisoners. Our troops must not forget Hist if the allow them'lvea to be taki I ptfooaora ihe QerttaiM win not fail to exKse them to French bullets.'" "Further evidence has now been col leeP ti of the misuse of the white flag and other signs of surrender. "During recent : cluing, also, tier man ambulance wagons advanced In order to collect the wounded. An ortier to cease fire was consequently glren to our guns, which were firing on this pniilciilar section of ground The Herman battery commanders at oncw took advantage of the lull In the action to climb up their observation ladders and on to a haystack to locate our guns, which soon afterwards cams under a far more accurate fire than any to which they had been subjected up to that lime."