Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 243, 23 August 1914 — Page 1

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TROOPS WIN ON BORDER Russian Official Statement Describes Successes of Army Driving Germans Away From Frontier REFUSE ARMISTICE 1 Invaders Occupy Lyck After Routing Corps and Seize All Money in Treasury BY LEASED WIRE. ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 23. The 'Russian advance into Prussia is proceeding rapidly and successfully, according to the government. The following official statement was issued today': "The battles on Aug. 17, 18, 19 and 0 were fought with the utmost desperation and spirit. "The battle front extends 26 miles. "The Russian troops have occupied Coldap, a town in Prussia, 21 miles southeast of Gumbinnen, and Aris. "The retreat of the Twentieth German army corps near Lyck resembled a rout. All the money in the treasury at Lyck was confiscated. Evacuate Frontier. I "In the region of Willenberg the German Troops are evacuating the frontier. The population is abandoning the villages. , "There has not yet been any serious collision between the Russians and ' Germans near Berestenschko, but there haveUtfW-ekirraletiw. ; "Russians pursued a squadron of the Ninth Austrian Hussars, capturing two officers and 105 privates. "The Russians have forced an Austrian battalion to abandon Burgade, and Ravarusse. "The German Army in the neighborhood of Gumbinnen tried to envelope the Russian right wing, where fighting ,was intensely fierce. The Russians took the offense, and captured many (guns. The Germans demanded an armistice to bury their dead, but it was refused. Russians are pursuing the fleeing Germans. AUSTRIAN MEN BURN AND KILL AS THEY FLEE Servians Report Atrocities Committed by Enemy on Line of Retreat From Banks of Drina. ROME, Aug. 23. "The Montenegrins are more than holding their own against the Austrians." This information was received here today in a dispatch from Cettinje. The Servian government has intimated to Spain that Austria commanders ordered the destruction of crops, the burning of villages and the wholedale killing of inhabitants. The Servians, describing th&'devas-tc-tion by the Austrians duringHheir retreat fro the river Drina, say they found the bodies of women and children which had. been mutilated. As a consequence of these alleged atrocities the Servian government will enforce the military measures In compliance with International agreements. In the event of the continuance of outrages, it is added, it will probably be found difficult to restrain the Servian troops. Two Montenegrin divisions came in contact with the Austrians at 3 o'clock yesterday morning and in the ensuing fight the Austrians lost heavily. PEOPLE RIDE FREE ON CROWDED CARS

Riding street cars at certain times of the day without paying fare is being accomplished with ease by many citizens of Richmond, especially Chautauqua attenders. At the close of night sessions, the cars going towards the center of the city are overcrowded. While the conductor struggles through one end of the car collecting fares, passengers are dropping off at street corners from the other end. Last night a woman with several half grown children rang to have the car stop at a down town cross street. Just as the car came to a stop, the conductor reached her and she was forced to produce the necessary money. ' "And just to think, a second more fcnd I would have been around the end tif the car," she said sadly, leading her train toward bom ' V; " X v-r

ALLIES BATTLE WITH GERMANS OVER BELGIUM Gigantic Struggle in Two Days Bitter Fight for Possession of Disputed Field Near France.

BY LEASED WIRE. LONDON, Aug. 23. Hard fighting is going on between the Germans and the Allies in Central Belgium, according to advices reaching here. A ParIs dispatch to The Daily Mail says that the big engagement which has1 been expected so long, opened on Saturday morning. M. Matvi, French Minister of Interior, admitted to a journalist that a fight, believed to be the biggest and most important so far in the war is going on. A Daily Mail dispatch from Ostend says that severe fighting has been in progress around Charleroi for two days. Official announcement was made today in Paris that the French forces in south-western Belgium are pushing forward at Charleroi to halt the German advance toward Dinant. The French are probably attempting to compel an abandonment of the German maneuvers at Lille in the North of France. It is stated that the French have met with success. From all accounts the battle at Charleroi Is the biggest of the war and some writers refer to it as "a conflict in which the engagement at Waterloo disappears, in insignificance." j Germans Move South. A forward movement has been commenced by that section of the German army lying south of Brussels, according to dispatches from Brussels today. The correspondent of the Daily Mail telegraphs from Ostend that the Germans are moving in a southwesterly direction to strike the French frontier near Valenciennes. The German force is divided. in two columns,. one .proceeding, by way X JMinove, And another by way of Monsu. -i; BATTLE THREE DAYS. ' LONDON, Aug. 23. A three-days battle has been going on around the French defensive works around Muelhausen. .News of the engagement came today in a special dispatch to the Mail. The Germans have been concentrating their attack with a view to forcing the French, from their intrenchmerrttt. German artillery has been pounding away at the French -works without intermission. It was a brilliant spectacle last night, the flashes from the batteries being plainly seen from Basel, Switzerland. High above the battlefield the huge air-ships wheeled and circled, their powerful search-lights playing upon the enemy. DECREASES TAX RATE ONE CENT FOR NEXT LEVY 1 City Also Provides for Motor Ladder Truck and Crematory in Forming Budget for 1915 Work. The important features of the 1915 budget, to be submitted to the city council Monday night for its approval, are as follows: $700 for a new crematory. $1,600 for the maintenance of playgrounds. $300 for a municipal laboratory under the supervision of the health department. $1,000 for the improvement of the dump on the west bank of the river. $10,000 for Mttor ladder truck. $21,000 fcT Water used by the city and reniof fire hydrants. $8,000 for crushed " stone for the improvement of macadam streets. $15,000 for public improvements, of which $6,000 will be used as the city's share of the cost of the Morton park sewer system, now under construction. Reduce Tax Rate. Under the plans formulated a total reduction of one cent in the tax rate for this city will be possible. The tax rate of the school city is to be reduced from 91 to 90 cents while the civil city tax rate will remain the same, $1.10. The contemplated increase of the civil city tax rate to $1.11 to provide $1,600 for playgrounds maintenance, has been abandoned because it is the opinion of the city officials that this item of expense can be cared for without a special one Sent levyBy including the $10,000 appropriation for a ladder track the total amount of the various Appropriations provided in the tentativeW915 budget exceeds by $12,000 the mdst conservative estimate of the city's "revenue for next year, but the city officials have reasons to believe that the municipal revenue will be somewhat larger than the low estimate they have made cf It and they are confident that by practicing the same economical pklicy which has been followed out this Tear it will be possible to purchase the iruck after the first six months of next year1. If their estimates are wrong! then the purchase of the truck will ne postponed until 1919. J

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With Road Open to Coast, German Foreign Office Says Zeppelin Craft Will Soon Begin Dropping Bombs Over the Belgian Border and English Channel Kaiser Claims 8,000 Russian Prisoners After Victories.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. Claims by the German foreign office that 8,000 Rusians have ben taken prisoners by German troops on the Eastern border of Prussia, and that victories by German troops have been won by both of the principal German armies directed toward Paris were made in a statement given out by Charge D'Affaires Von Heimhausen of the German Embassy here today. The German government announced also that Zeppelin dirigibles will soon be harrassing the allies off the Belgian coast and in the English channel. Two telegrams from the Berlin foreign office were received at the wireless station at Sayville, L. I., and transmitted to the Embassy here today confirming htis news. The first read:

Capture 8,000 Russians. "Strong Russian forces have been advancing against Gumbinnen. The nrst German army corps turned against them on the twentieth, Sfcurins 8,000 prisoners and eight "guns. Garman cavalry took 800 prisoners after fighting two Russian cavalry divisions. "The first attempt to invade upper Alsace was frustrated by defenders. In Lorraine the French are retiring from the frontier. The German people gnd a big French move amusing and just as false as some reports published in 1870. ITALY ON EDGE TO ENTER Reports Say Troops Will Mobilize for Actual War August 27. PARIS, Aug. 23. The newspaper Eclair says: Aug. 27 Is the date fixed by the Italian government for general mobilization of its troops. The Italian war establishment is being placed upon a war footing. SITUATION ACUTE. ROME, Aug. 23. Italy is rapidly mobilizing on a large scale. The situation has reached an acute stage, and many persons believe that the coming week will see the Italian government lined up with the allies. MARCH ON BORDER. BY LEASED WIRE. PARIS, Aug. 23. The war office officially announced today that the Germans are continuing their march west of Ghent in an endeavor to reach the French frontier. The statement added that the German offensive operations in Lorraine have been arrested by the French army, no attacks having been made by the Kaiser's forces against the French advanced position.

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CV-JK ' "No answer whatever will be made to Japan's Ultimatum." The second telegram read: "At the north the army under the Crown Prince advancing both s'des of Longwy, defeated nd forced back the French army. The. other army under the. Bavarian Crown Prince which has already reported a victory in Lorraine, and pursuing beaten army reached the line to Luneville-Blamont and continues today. German guns since yesNamur. "Very soon some new Zeppelin airships will be ready for work over Belgian coast and English channel." RAPTURE PIGEON PITH WAR RlAP Germans Foil French Plan to Learn Location of Hostile Troops. f 'V COPENHAGEN, Aug. 23. The sixth list of German casualties, contain'"'? the names of 823 killed and wounded, was issued today in Berlin, i ne uc . y losses of the German army in the field is attested by the fact that of 1,000 soldiers from Rosterk, who took part in the fighting around Liege only one hundred escaped unscathed. The commander-in-chief of the German forces at Stuttgart says that a carrier-pigeon; which had been Sent out by the French, has been shot hear Andernack. The paper which it bore, contained an exact account of the German troops movements in Baden,' and Wurtemburg. The government has appealed to' the public to cooperate In preventing military- news from leaking out in this -.way. , ' REPORT SHIPS SUNK. BY; LEASED WIRE. " ROME, Aug. 23. Another naval engagement has been fought on the Adriatic - in which r some Austrian ' ships were sunk, according to the newspaper Avanti. -,.. :"S'';- . ' : ..' ... :y The same paper says that .Greece has sent troops to aid Serrla. r

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Dairymen Consider Raise in Price to Take Effect Sept. 1 With Operation of New Ordinance. Dealers Assert Bottling Measure Eliminates All Profits at Old Figure of Eight Cents. Milk ten cents a quart. If the plan now seriously considered by the dairymen who furnish Richmond with its milk supply is adopted at the meeting, dairymen are to hold next week this price for milk will become effective Sept. 1. the same day as the recently amended milk ordinance becomes operative. For about three years the price of milk in Richmond has been 8 cents a quart and the dairymen assert that even without being required to bottle all milk sold in quantities of a gallon or less the margin of profit in their business has been exceedingly small. Their small profits are due, they assert, to the steadily increasing prices of feed for dairy herds, the strict regulations of the state health department pertaining to the maintenance of barns and milk houses, and the action of the city in requiring all dairymen to take out licenses. Now that the city milk ordinance has been amended to require the delivery in bottles of all milk in quantities of a gallon or less they assert their operating expenses will be increased from ten to fifteen per cent, thereby eliminating all profits if the price of milk is maintained at 8 cents a quart. Therefore, they assert, it is necessary for them if they are to continue in business to increase the price of milk at least two cents per quart. WAR BULLETINS

BY LEASED WrREJ PARIE In order to remedy the deficiency of change, the mint is actively engaged in converting silver into coins. During the past ten days such coins to the amount of $900,000 have been turned out. It is thought that the figures will reach 2,200,000. RELIEVE SUFFERERS. - LONDON Several more funds for war sufferers' were opened today. The newspaper Gleaner started one fund with $12,000: . Jamaica will probably make a present of a big quantity of Sugar to England. MAKE WAR LOAN. PARIS The Havre News " Agency learns that France and England have agreed to advance $100,000,000 to Belgium for war purposes. REPORT WAR EDICT. LONDON The Government Press Bureau this afternoon made official announcement tthat Japan has declared war against Germany. England, France Russia, Japan, Servla and Montenegro are now lined up against either Germany -or Austria, . - T - - v "

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Army and Navy Move on German Garrison' at Tsing Tau When Kaiser Ignores Ultimatum From Orient.

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. Ambassador Chinda, of Japan,' shortly after 2 o'clock today conferred with acting secretary of j state Lansing. He delivered to Mr. Lansing a copy of the text; of Japan's Declaration of War on Germany. On leaving the Statei Department Ambassador Chinda said: "Japan has made no request for the transmission of this dec

laration to the German government, through the state department,' but I presume that the American ambassador at Berlin will be informed of the text of the declaration and will furnish information to the German foreign office." j Counsellor Lansing stated that no request had been made that the United States communicate any message to the German government. He added that a proclamation of neutrality on the part of the United States as to war between Germany and Japan will be issued probably tomorrow.

JAPAN HANDS AMBASSADOR PASSPORTS. TOKIO, Aug. 23. The Japanese government handed the Ger-.

man Ambassador his passports this afternoon. He will leave the country at once. Japan declared against Germany today. This formal declaration followed Germany's refusal to reply to an ultimatum demanding the evacuation of Kiao-Chau territory which Germany holds; under lease from China on the Yellow Sea. Japan also demands that Germany withdraw entirely from the Far East. It is accept-i ed as a foregone conclusion that Japan will' soon be able to occupy, Kiao-Chau on account of German inability to send reinforcements J Copies of Japan's declaration of war, and the reasons for it! were telegraphed to the foreign governments. j At noon, when the time limit of the ultimatum expired, the government ordered the beginning of hostilities between land and) sea. News of the commencement of bombardment of the German forts at Kaio-Chau is expected hourly.

DELIVERS TO U. S. WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 The Declaration of War, by Japan against Gerbany, issued at Tokio, at 6 o'clock this afternoon, Washington time, was delivered today to Counsellor Lansing of the State Department by . Baron Chinda, Japanese Ambassador to the United States. An excerpt from it. follows: "We, by the Grace of Heaven, Emperor of Japan, seated on the throne occupied by the same Dynasty from a time immemorial, do hereby make the following proclamation to all .our loyal and brave subjects. "We hereby declare war against Germany, and we command our army, and navy to carry on hostilities to that Empire with all their strength, and we also command all our competent authorities to make every effort in pursuance of their respective duties, to attain the national aim by all means within the limits of the law of nations. "Since the outbreak of the present war in Europe the calamitous effects of which we view with grave concern, we, on our part have entertained the hope of preserving the peace of the Far East by the maintenance of strict neutrality, but the action of Germany has at length compelled Great Britain, our ally, to open hostilities against that country, and Germany is at KiaoChau, its leased territory In China, buzzed with war-like preparations, as its armed vessels cruising the seas of Eastern Asia are threatening our commerce, and that of our ally. Peace of the Far East is thus is Jeopardy. "It Is with profound regret that we, in spite of our ardent devotion to the cause of peace, are thus compelled to declare war, especially at this early period of our reign, and while we are still in mourning for our . Imperial Mother. "It is our earnest wish that by the loyalty and valor of our subjects, peace may soon be restored and the glory of the Empire be enhanced." Japan's deciartitieh' of war 'was not officially transmitted to the' German government, since It took the form merely of a proclamation of the people of Japan when Ambassador Chinda delivered a 9007 of the ' declaration to the state department today, he did so only la order to ihtdnri ' the 'United States government' 6t 'the reasons given by the Emperor ot Japan to his subject tor calling upon them to fight the Germans. No request was made that the Tjnlte4'$tates. should forward the nrociasiatlon to the German gov. eminent. - Japanese envoy throughout the world today Informed the governments to which they are accredited of u the contents ox the war declaration.

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WITH KING GEORGE! Call on U. S, Consuls. Charge D'Affaires Von Heimhausen of the German embassy here today an4 nounced that German diplomatic affairs in Japan will be left in charge of American Ambassador Guthrie, and that German interests throughout the Nipponese Dominions will be cared for' during the war by American consuls. Japanese interests in Germany ares In the hands of American ambassadors and other diplomats and consular rep. resentatives of the United tsates ii that country. HUNTER'S SHOTS BRING DEATH TO TAYLOR IN TREE' G. W. Garwood Shoots Com-; panion When Leaves Move,' Near Hole Where Squirrel" Ran in Trunk. One more name was added to the list of hunting fatalities In Waynecounty this summer when Henry Taylor. 81 John street, died at the Retdt hospital shortly after midnight today as a result of wounds received when his companion, G. W. Garwood. 81. John street, fired at him with a shot gun, mistaking him for a squirreL Th shooting occurred near Centerville yesterday afternoon. I The other hunting victim was Cart ? Bowmaster, aged 11. of East Germantown, who was also mistaken for a squirrel and shot by Perry Barber of that place. This accident occurred on July 4 . the boy dying at Reid hospital several, days later. Taylor, who came to Richmond from New York only a few weeks ago and' has been employed 'as a laborer, went out hunting yesterday morning with -Garwood, at whose home he had been, ' living recently. They got off a traction? car at Centerville and then walked to . the John Shadle farm southeast ofs town. ' t- r Taylor Climbs Tree. After swimming in a small stream they located a. squirrel which darted; up a tree and took refuge in a hole about ten feet above the base. Taylor told Garwood to step down a hillside 1 I (Continued on Page Seven.) ;