Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 56, Number 50, Jasper, Dubois County, 2 October 1914 — Page 7

GERMANS SILENCE FORTS SOUTH OF

VERDUN ON MEUSE

Allies Report Gain Against Kaiser's Right Flank. TO MARCH ON PARIS AGAIN? French Reported to Have Annihilated Entire Division of Invaders Foa Claims to Have Overwhelmed Poincare's Troops. U.i.ii :i. Scijt. 2H.- Terrilie tight iuk In It! progress ull along the great 120MÜ front of the battle of the Alsue. he I'rcnch and llritiHh continuing tlMil desperate efforts to turn tienera! , rot Kfock'l right wing simultaneous-1 I) u til tt vigorous effort on tlie nart of j tili I ;us. r .s arm) to break through the renter of the allies' line. ptjetal dispatch from W T. Maethe London Telegraph correspondfrom u town in Krane' the name ol v huh is deleted by a censor, say: II..- situation on the Aisue and appears to be tili I Ii.- i ruiaiis ch ail regard this an Hi best road to Tartu and are determined to make another attempt to gain it. W hile continuing to engage the itritish linen, they are throwing almost their entire weight against tlie Kreuch troops on our left The fellies are making progress ftffttnflt the enemy's right flank. .i i riling to an official statement, and. although the Paris war office admits i hat the Hermans gained some ground, it adds that the territory was imiuedi ately regained and the Invaders were repiiK.-d. On the heights of the Meuse, where the (liTiiKin attack has been the strongest, the French are holding their ground, but the Germans have succeeded in maintaining their position, on the west bank of the river Wire less advices from llerliu declare thai the Hermans have silenced the fort south of Verdun on the Meute The Kaiser' geii. ral staff claims to have n puls, d w ith Interior numbers the attack on the right flank near ÜH taMM rier. Germans Overwhelm French. The Hermans also claim to have overwhelmed a French division near Mapaume. which i N miles northeast of Paris and li miles southwest of Cambrai. Near Keims attacks and counter attacks have been In progress along the trenches of the opposing armies, and in the fighting around St Quentln the French and Fnglish have not yet auci ceded in dislodging the Cermans or in advancing to the railroad line. French Annihilate 3.000. An Amsteidam dispatch to Lloyd's says a strong Herman force is retreating from France into Belgium The German staff Is said to be i-uar-tered in the Hal station. French troops surrounded and annihilated the One Hundredth regiment of German reserves, approximately .1,000 men. according to a Rome dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph. It did not give the place or date. Germans Evacuate Towns. The French embassy here has received from the French war office the following statement: "At the end of the day our troops occupied the front of Dompierre. southwest of Craonne. Ilibencourt and Noyon are put on the defensive by the Germans. We occupy Rerry au-Kac The enemy has retired at Plamont with serious losses and has evacuated Itadon villlers. He was forced from l.essuux and the woods between Lea soux and Nlesenbach" BIG GUNS TO SHELL VERDUN Germans Say Destruction of Fortresses Cannot Be Averted Once Canron Are Erected. Berlin. Sept. 26 (by wireless rla lndon). An official Matemnt given out says: The siege guns have been taken from Metz to bombard Verdun The French are striving to prevent the ar rival of these guns, but they are steadily approaching nearer The reduction of Verdun cannot be averted when they reach a position wher they can be operated vvlth full effect. Our smaller gum continue their bombardment of the Verdun Toul line with good effect. The held engagements in Francs during the U hours ended at midnight have been imi.or affairs without any important dev. lopnients. We hold our positions, then being no appreciable change in the lines. The situation in Belgium and the eastern war theater Is unchanged ' In their advance on Soualn the French captured 7,000 prisoners, among wh-m were Lieutenant von Bieberstein, son of the noted German ambassador and Lieut, nant von Jagow, son of Berlin's chief of police. Poincare's Home Is Shellrd. Bordeaux. Sept. 28. Germane are paving marked attention to the homes of President Raymond Polncare and tho members of his family. The French president's country house at Satnplgny. in the department of Meus, j z: miles south of Verdun, has been j bombarded with special violence.

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General Chetwode commanded the cavalry brigade which performed valorous deeds on the left flank of the allied army m the battle of the Marne. He served in Burmah and South Africa and won the Distinguished ServIce Order. U. S. TROOPS TOLD TO STAY IN MEXICO Garrison Tells Funston to Remain Ten Days Armies Mass for Battle. Washington, Sept 2'. Definite Instruction w're sent by Seen-tary of War Garrison to General Kutiston, In command of the American forces at V. r :i Cruz, not t make anj BfftfMsV tions to leave the Mexican port for at least ten days. The government here has derided not to take any steps toward the evacuation of Vera Cruz fur this Iren...!, as it is thought that it will take at least that Ions for authentic informal Ion -''concerning the Villa revolt to roach Washington. Secretins (iarrison explained that no indications of the extent or gravity of the new revolution has reached her' and that it is Impossible to make any plan onceming the latest devel iprnent iu the Mexican situation until such news is received. Vera I'm, Mexico. Sept. 2C Constitutionalist troops sent out to the north of Vera Cruz to check the supposed revolutionary movement under lligenio Aguilar, are reported to have entered the mountains below Alta Luz. where this former federal general and his forces were last seen and where he appeared to be awaiting attack. Aguilar is supposed to be moving toward Vera Cruz, driving out a post of 25 men, eight of whom were killed. Tho break between General Villa and his former chief arose over Villa's demand that the vast estates of the wealthy men of Mexico be divided up and the land parceled out among the peons. Since General Carranza has been at the head of the government in Mexico City he has made no move toward carrying out this reform, although the revolution which put blm at the head of the rpubllc was an uprising of peons. General Villa had promised the men of his army that each should have a farm after the war. In some parts of Chihuahua, after Villa had conquered that district, he acted Independently of Tarranza by splitting up gigantic ranches himself and giving away the ground to his soldiers. BATTLE WON BY JAPANESE Nipponese Lose 312 Men Attack on Tsing Tao Continues Japs Occupy Pei-Ho. Tokyo. Sept 2R. The Japanese were successful in a stubborn fourteen hour battle on the outskirts of Tslng Tao. it was officially announced The attack on the main fortress began Saturday and is still continuing. The Jaane losses in the attack have been 312. Peking. Sept. 28. It was announced that a small detachment of Japanese occupied Pne-llo on Wednesday, driving out 300 German defenders. FRENCH SHIPS SHELL PORT Austrian Town of Lissa, in Dalmatla, Bombarded Allies Land Troops. London. Sept 26 A Central News dispatch from Rome says that the Austrian seaport of Lissa, In Dalmatla, was bombarded by a French fleet on September 19. Later troops landed ir.-ni the French warships and went into garrison British and rrench flags were hoisted over the semaphore station at Lissa. Mine Sinks -English Ship. Trebizond, Asia Minor, via London. Sept. 23. Twenty two persons OBt their lives by drowning as a result of ttie sinking of the British steamer Belgian King near Cape Kurell The ship carried passengers and crew to tbe number of 120 Ninety eight were saved by a Russian steamer It Is surmised tbis accident was due to s mine. Belgian Women Expelled. 1 .01. don. Sept 28 - The wives of Belgian official In Brussels have been expelled

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BOMBS DROPPED Bl GERMAN IN PARIS

Kaiser's Aviator Shells Former French Capital. MANY BUILDINGS SHATTERED American Ambassador and Aid Miss Ewplosion by Five Minutes Aged Lawyer Killed and His Grand daughter Is Wounded. Pans Sept M. -The lutest exploit of the German air force uearly crt kacancics in the I nlted States diplomatic service. A Taube aeroplane, proiitmg by the autumnal haze, flew uuperceived ovar Parin at 11 : 15 iu the morning until it was MWiy above the Klffel tower As it reached this point the Taube descended to within a thousand yards of the ground and th- air lieutenant drop ped a bomb arranged like a shrapnel projectile, which fell in the Avenue du Trocadero. at the corner of the Hue Kreycinet. making a hole in the macadam roadway. In exploding it killed an aged solicitor and severely wounded Iiis granddaughter walking home with him from church. The man's stomach was ripped open by the shrapnel bullets and the girl's legs-were practically severed above the km Hernck Narrowly Escapes. The 8nt wbtfffi the bomb exploded was 2oo yards from the chancellery of Hi" American embassy, at .', Rue de haillot Ambassador Hcrrick and Arthur U. Frazier. the second secretary of the embassy, walked over the spot where the bomb exploded at 10:30 on their way to the chancellery, and. returning in an open niotoi car. passed over the ham.- point at 11 1'. thereby missing the bomb by live minutes. Four Other Bombs Dropped. Three other bombs fell iu the Troeadero section. One landed in the Rue Vinuse. near tbe Henjamin Franklin -t ittle, and tlie residence of Georges t 'lemeinvau . another in the Hue Mangiian ol the Champs Klsees. and the third in the rue Desbordes Valniore. near the Chateau de la Muette. the residence of the Ktnpress .losephine. All these bombs exploded too soon to do great damage. The Bennau aviator apparently flew at a height of about ten thousand feet and was invisible in the dense mist. When the bombs began to shower on the fashionable residences at 11:30 o'clock the noise was deafening, resembling' a bombardment. Prince's Mansion Shattered. The fir: bomb dropped, the one which landed In Avenue du Trocadero, wrought havoc. A few feet away the facade of the Prince of Monacos mansion was shattered by grape shot from the exploding bomb. Tho mansion w as unoccupied. While the police rushed to remove the victims the German aviator flew off The bomb evidently was Intended to destroy the wireless apparatus on the Eiffel tower, but. owing to the great height at which he was flying and the mist, the pilot missed his target by several hundred yards. North Belgium Raided Ostend. Belgium, Sept. 28. A German Zeppelin made a raid over a big portion of northern Belgium at night and during the day. Five bombs were dropped in Client, where a hospital was damaged, and an old man was killed. At Thielt the gas factory was destroyed PERONNE TAKEN BY FRENCH Bloodiest Battle of the Altne Occurs Along German Right Try to Cut Off Von Kluck. Paris. Sept. 25. An official statement issued here annouures that the French left wing is making steady progress and that Peroune has been occupied by the French. In an attempt to drive off the French troops who are threatening his line of com mualcation General von Kluck Is mak Ing a sharp attack upon the French forces at Peronne. The bloodiest fighting of the great battle of the Alsne Is going on along the German right wing where the British and French are struggling furiously to surround and cut off the armv of General von Kluck PRESIDENT SIGNS ALLEY BILL Chief Executive Favors Measure That Wife Was Interested in Prior to Her Death. Washington. Sept. 26 -President Wilson paid a touching tribute to the memory of Iiis wife by signing the Washington alley bill." which recently was passed by congress. Mrs. Wilson was deeply Interested in the passage of the measure, and it was ber dying reoiest the bill was rushed through congress. The president was greatly affected as he signed the bill. 30.000 Canadians sail vor tngiand. Quebec. Sept. 28 Thirty thousand Canadian troopa sailed for Kn gland , aboard M transports. '

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The duke of Westminster distinguished himself in the fighting In France by rescuing, at great personal risk, Captain Grenfell of the Ninth Lancers, who was wounded in the brilliant charge of his co imano. The duke, who is thirty-five years old, saw service in South Africa as A. D C. to Lord Rcberts. PRESIDENT WILSON DEFIED BY TURKISH AMBASSADOR A. Rustem Bey Refuses to Retract In- j terviews and Says He Will Leave United States Soon. Washington, Sept. 25 That A. Rüstern H.y, Turkish ambassador to the I'nlted States, has asked hid govern rnent for a leav of absence was officially staled at the White House. The envoy has ent word to tbe White House to this effect. Further j comment by administration officiate Is i .leclined. It is under.-tood that Ullstein Hey told the president frankly in his letter that he still supported the position he took in several iuterv i. ss. but that in view of having incurred the displeasure of the 1 "nited States he thinks it best to leave his post. The interviews to which the TurVish ambassador referred was contained in a statement given to the press on Septimber 1, in which A. Kusteui Hey protected the name of his native country. In part he had said: ' That there have beeu massacres In Turkey I cannot, unfortunately, deny, but the Armenians and Maronites. w ho were the victims, suffered at the hands of the Moslems not aa Christians but as political agitators." After referring to the Pogroms of Russia, the smoking to death of Algerians by France and severe measures adopted in Kugland to punish Indian mutineers, tbe diplomat has the following to say about the United States: "And since a large number of Arn er lean papers are siding with Great Hritain and France In this affair. I will permit myself to say that the thought of tho lynching which occurred daily in the l'nited State and the memory of the 'water cures' In the Philippines should make them chary of attacking Turkey in accordance with acts of savagery committed by her under provocation compared with which the economic competition of an Italian or the sniping of a Filipino, or even the outrage of a negro, are as nothing." The Turkish diplomat charged that Kngland was maneuvering through diplomacy to get the I'nlted Stattes embroiled In the European fray on the aide of the allies. Iater A. Rust em Hey gave other In tervlews to the press, commenting upon subjects of 1'nited States domestic concern, and these were the cause of Intense annoyance on the part of President Wilson. Through the state department A. Rustem Hey was courteously asked to discontinue his comments PRESIDENT WILSON BARS AID Wilson Refuses to Let New Jersey Democrats Indorse Him for Second Term. Washington. Sept. 2C--President Wilson declined to allow- the Democrats of New Jersey to Indorse him for a second term.' He believes that such Indorsement might look as If Im were "taking advantage of the eitraordlnary situation now eilstlng to gain some personal advantage through such an expression of confidence by them." 1!.. directed his secretary. J. p. Tumulty, to write a letter to Kdward K. r.re -i up. 'tate treasurer of New Jersey, outlining his views on the matter. London. Rept. 28. The Chmnlcln 1 1 . spondent at Amsterdam reports that martial law has been proclaimed on the eastern frontier of Holland Mi., principal reason for-this Is stated to be that food and other goods on the prohibited lkt are still being smuggled Into Germany in large quantities.

MACHINE SLATES WIN IN NEW YORK

Glynn. Democrat, and Whitman. Republican. Nominated. Davenport and Sulzer Run Neck and Nek on Progressive Ticket, Tammany Candidates Successful. New York. Sept J!. So-calle l Organization" candidates aparently swept the boards in the .-tate-wide primary yesterday for every nomination except United States senator on the Republican ticket. With pcotically all of the New York city vote and a seventh of the up-state vote in early this morning, it seemed certain that tiovenio- Martin H. Glynn was the Democratic gul r natorial nominee and Hi tiict Attorney Charit! S. Whitman, the Republican. Former Governor William Sulzer and former State Senator V re.l Davenport were running close together for the Progressive gubernatorial nomination and both claiming the victory. James VV. Gerard, ambasaador to Germany, led Franklin D. Roosevelt by a wide margin for the I lem utic nomination for L'nited States senator while Tmtl S. McDonough was third. The Republican senatorial nomina tion was somewhat in doubt. William M. Calder piled up a big lead, but late returns from up-state showed James W. Wadsworth, Jr., was gaining rapidly. Bainbridge Colby won an uncontested victory for the Progressive senatorial nomination. John A. Hennc.-sy, who headed the anti-Tammany tic-ket against Governor Glynn, was gaining in hite returns from un-state, but his friend idnntted that ne nau no emmwi . ... . . . . -i u torv. Returns on the con vies- on a 1 con- . i , ,i tests were very incomplete, but those received indicated that most of the present Now York member of both tii-rties were renominated. The Tammany candidates for the Assembly in New York city .opotred to have "won. These included Alfred E. Smith, the Tammanyy loader in the ! Assembly. The organ izntion candidates for j the State Senate, both Democratic . , ,. j I..,. 1 - "PP""1 l" h Ul won also, with few exceptions. RUSSIANS TAKE PRZEMYSL Crar's Soldiers Invest Fortified City and Drive Austrian Behind Carpathians. Rome, Sept. 28. (By way of Paris) An official dispatch from Petrograd says that Przemysl. in Galicia, is -.ow entirely invested by the Russians and that the main Austrian army is retiring behind the Carpathians. A dispatch from Cettinje by way of Paris says the Montenegrins are w ithin artillery range of Sarajevo, the capital of the A strian piovince of Bosnia. A Central News dispatch says that the following telegram has been received from Petrograd: The right wing of the Au.tnans has been driven back beyond the Carpathians into Hungary where they are being pursued by the Russians. "The Austrian debacle is complete and they have lost all their artillery. The Austrian left wing has retreated to Cracow. The Russians have occupied another of the forts of Przemysl." ARMIES NEARING IG CLASH Hand to Hand Battle Expected When Forces Rush Fight Probably Will Be Decisive. London, Sept. 28. The Germans have steadily met as.-'n. with counter-assault until the trenches of the opposing nrmies in France are only sprinting distance apart. Already there has been some work with the steel in hand-to-hand confli but except at a single point where they forced a passage across the Meuse, the Germans, half of whose army is kept busy on the Russian frontier, had up to last night found it impossible to break through the human barrier stretching across France. Word from the front describes the encounters. On one occasion the French and British held positions within a ipjartei of a mile from the German front, where they were not in danger from the heavy German artillery and were sheltered from the machine guns unless they came into the open. French and British on the lef .-r have repulsed fer days the ait i sof the Germans who have i.. i endeavoring to take the allies' positions by assault. The British, however, did rot by any means lear the whole hvunt of the fighting, for the French troopa, including a di.ision of the famous colonial infiintiy and the Turcos as well sk many battalions of French regulars and others composed of territorial troops, also faced successfully prolonged attacks, which wer delivered with gnat liercenes.

Hoosier News Briefly Told ooo

Terre Haute. Jewelers have rain the price of watch crystals from tw.ntytive to thlrty-flve cents, on account of the war, and say that the supply of Imported crystals Is so low that if the war lasts much longer the price will be 7 cents. Hartford City - -Rev. J Marlon Small of Shoals. Ind.. has accepted the pastorate of the Church of Christ at MonriK'lier Judge lien I.lndsey of iHnevr. Col, has been Invited to ceme here this fall to address a meeting to be held in the Interest of the various Hoy Scout organiz ns In tbis city Indianapolis. Delegates to the convi-utlou of the National Wholesale Druggists' association went to French I.ick as guests of Thomas Tagg.irt. The druggists adopted rasv olut ions favoriug an increase in railroad rates Members condemned the practice of giving free goods'' as trade inducement. Shelbyville. Louis Green, iwentytwo y ears old, Walter Hogers, twentyfour, and lonard Hill, seventeen, colored, were sentenced to the Indiana reformatory for one to eight years by .ludge Itlairi. (!reen was a pickpocket and the other two raided a clothing store herv All claim Indianapolis aa their home. Rogers broke jail a few s.eks ago. but was recaptured by Sh. rin Terry. Itrazil Charle Kidd. business man of Hrazll. was knock, d down by an automobile driven by G. A Ridgeway, a merchant of Carlisle. Ridgeway was arrested. Kldgf way was driving: borne a new car which he bought in Indtiinapolis. In attempting to pass the crowd boarding an interuvluui car at the station, he knocked down thre. men and a boy. and bare ly escaped running over Kidd s neck i ,Ie WM flned ,:, f0 uhicn he paid. Shell.. ille. s. l. stroup, a lum U"i in ;uer licit-. lion uv. ij - tnirU,tnir(, df,ree MaBon bestowed at the m (., . h b-r dealer here, has been elected the eetlng he has been officially notified of his elevation. Sh. lby coutit haB had one other thir ty-third degree Mason the late William Hücker. Mr. Stroup Is a member of the Indianapolis Scottish Rite Mason He is m receipt ot a number of congratulatory telegrams, - I l I m ' , 11.. i annum Willi II 1 Oil." 11UIII 1 ItC I iBor flp, Thomas R. Marshall who has the thirty third dceree. Indianapolis Governor Ralston, accompanied by Mrs. Ralston and their two sons, motored to Rock vllle to Inspect the state tuberculosis hospital. "I was much pleased with the treatment given the patients there," said Governor Ralston, "and also wish to commend the work of the superintendent, Dr Walter Geckeler. I iimliTstnnd that more monev has bpfn Dfoded but t g too early to gay anvthjng regarding an Increased appropriation I shall reserve my jun, and hall have the facts laid Defor. the legislature at the proper ; time." , Terre Haute The grand jury indcted KYederlck Wampler. a Pig Four railway detective, for murder in the nr8( degree. He shot a negro, who gave bis name as Robinson, whom ne mH in tne yards with two boys, Wampler says the negro acted suspi ciously. and when called on to halt drew a revolver. The testimony of the boys Is that Wampler shot tbe ne gro when he started to run. Wampler was not In uniform and the negro, in his deathbed statement, said he thought Wampler wanted to rob him. Tho Illg Four Railway company Is providing lawyers for Wampler'a defense. Logan sport. The Cass county jail has more liquor stored In It than most any saloon In Logansport. Twelve barrels of whisky, one barrel of gin, one barrel of wine and one case of beer seized at the home of Dr. C. D. Carpenter, at Walton, this county, are stored In the basement of the Jail. Doctor Carpenter is charged with operating a blind tiger." The raid was instigated by the temperance people of Walton, aided by the "dry" workers in Logansport. Doctor Carpenter said he had bought the liquor to avoid paying the war tax which soon is to be assessed. Indianapolis. - Governor Ralston gave freedom to one man who has been behind prison walls for ten years, and to another that he may go home to his sick wife and small children. Roy Woodruff was paroled on the recommendation of Warden Fogarty of the state prison. He was sent to prison June 10, 1904, from Adams county for grand larceny. He has served within four years of his maximum term. Citizens of Putnam county and Warden Fognrty petitioned for the release of Harry Farrts. who was sent to prison last January for larceny It was represented to the governor that Farris' wife is seriously 111 with tuberculosis and that she and their three small children are in need ef hi attention. W iveland M. O Sullivan, who has s farm near here, made what Is said to be a world's ri'cord when he sold s dree of cattle to Rd Woodward, representing Swift A Co. at $10.7f a hundred pounds This Is not the highest price ever paid for cattle, but Is said to be the record for as many out of the same feed lot. There were "4 head, about one half yearlings and the others two years old. Including three heifers, and the total weight was Wi.000 pounds, making an average of 1 297 to the head They came to a total of tlMttt or only s little less than an average of $140 a head.