South Bend News-Times, Volume 31, Number 282, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 2 October 1914 — Page 1

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Statement cf War Office Declares Situation Highly Favorable Although No Deceisive Battle Has Been Fought. REPULSE SORTIES AND AGAIN TAKE OFFENSIVE Only Unimportant Positions Are Evacuated and Attempts to Dislodge Germans From Craonne Heights. BERLIN, Oct. 2. (By wireless via Sayville, N. Y.) That two of the Belgian forts at Antverp have been silenced by German artillery and that the Germans are making steady progress in France after repulsing all attacks by the allies, is asserted in an official statement issued here today. It also declares that about 2,000 Russian officers including 18 generals, have been taken prisoners by the Germans. The statement follows: "German artillery has silenced two forts in the siege of Antwerp. Thirty aeroplanes sent from France to Belgium have been capuired bv the uermans. "The ripantic battle in France still undecided. The Germans is are lnmmennr the French rosiimrK with heavv artillerv. At nu merous points attempts by the allies to break through the German lines have been repulsed. They sutfered their heaviest losses near the Argonne forest. The Germans continue to make steady progress. "The fact that tho Ficgo of Antwerp, t ho big battlo In Franco and Gen. ou llindenbcrg's operations in tho east aro Reiner conducted s.multan- . oiislv is significant of indicating that tho Germans do not lack men. "In tho war theater in tho east the Uuian, offensive from the Niemcn against our troops in the government .f Suwalki has failed. (This contradiets, tho otlicial statement issued at Vttrograd.) "The Russian fortress of Ossowieez M being bombarded. Olllcial report show what up to Sept. 2 5 there has been in German war prison camps about 2.000 captured Russian oiliecrs, including IS generals." nv nti:i)i:uicic vi:uxkil BF.RRIN, via Amsterdam, Oct. 2. -Conditions in both the eastern and western theaters of war aro highly favorable to the German armies, aceordlng to a statement given out at tho war oihco today. "In general." ir. was Btated. "the situation may bo hummed up as highly favorable, though neither in France nor in Poland has any decisive battle been fought. "Our positions in France aro steadily Nun-; made Mroncer, despite tho rept ated attacks of tho enemy on the right and left wind's. Following the rapture of Fresnoy-Le-Grand ami Royo wo drove the enemy back with heavy losses west of the Olse. lie is showing- persistence in his attacks on the west but tho fury these at tacks is apparently dim 'hing. Indicating that the French troops aro ithdrawing to the south or attempt2:14 a Hanking movement. 1an Fnimportant I'o-dtion-. "I'Dsitions i.f no ,-trateKio importance to tho German troops have been evacuated 1 y them and occupied by tho enemy, but he has been unable to iri:ig to s;; et ss any efforts to threaten our main positions. "All attempts to dislodge us from tho heights of Craonne have been repulsed, on the b it end of our center our superior artillery has forced tho enemy to i;ive ground nt som ;oints where w o have advanced and .-trenKthent d our intrenchments. "At the east of the tattle front we have auala taken the offensive after repulsing sorties from the Mouse forts and have regained pround that the French took with heavy losses and ivo found themselves unable to hold. Th. oy navo saernatt i.ire lorees m s" locality. Tlw .situation in the Yo-ues is thi inc harmed, the nemy having failed renew his attacks. .dantnge in V.af. 'Ilio strategic movement in tho astern theater continues to our ad 1 1 vantage. Sorties from Antwerp have been repulsod ami the bombardment of the forts then- continues. KlTeciio work is being done by the imperial Hying corps at all centers of righting." The Taeblatt Mates today that th failure of the Germans to sweep France is due to the Rritish troop?. "The intluence of Rntish reinforcements is makiru itself more and more known." says the Tageblatt. "They are effective in opposing us, though the effects will r.ot bo lasting. "nerval I.it of Dead. "An dd military proverb nyp, 'many enemies, much honor'. Victory must lie ours all the same". The latest list cf casualties mado isre to

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TOKIO, Oct. 2. Creeping close to Tsing-Tau, a flotilla of Japanese destroyers has destroyed the German barracks there and tire is reported to be raging within the fortifications. The Japanese fleet continues to bombard the fortress, which is also being shelled by British and Japanese battery from the land side. One of the small magazines was blown last night by a bomb dropped from a Japanese aeroplane. ROME, Oct. 2. According to a Bridisi dispatch to the Correrie Del Save the Anglo-French fleet in the Adriatic has opened an attack on Pola, Austria's late naval base. The dispatch says thr.t French guns mounted on Mount Lovtchen are bombarding the Cattaro forts and that there is no further needs of the allies' fleet oft Caltaro.

LONDON, Oct. 2. Anxiety over the situation at Antwerp was partially relieved today by the following announcement from the government press bureau: "News from Antwerp says that its position is excellent. The German dead near Vavre St. Catherine can be counted by thousands. Entire companies have been decimated."

VIENNA, Via Berlin and Amsterdam, Oct. 2. While every train to the north is carrying troops to strengthen the Galician front, every train returning is tilled with wounded Austrians, and Galician refugees fleeing from what they call the Russian horror. ROME, Oct. 2. The Giornale D'ltalia adopts n Tone distinctly belligerent today and declares that Italy must soon occupy Avalona, Albania and Saseno island, olT the Albanian coast, because otherwise Albania will become the prey of warring and looting factions. LONDON, Oct. 2. A news agency dispatch from Amsterdam

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have moved the general stall headquarters from Luxemberg to Mainz, which is on the east bank of the Rhine and is a strong fortress. PETROGRAD, Oct. 2. The outbreak of cholera in AustriaHnugary has become an epidemic, it is unofficially stated here, and energetic measures are to be taken to prevent its spreading to the Russian arm v.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. Details of the German retreat from the district of Sulwalki and the difnculties experienced by the kaiser's troops in the swamps of Russian Poland were related in a dispatch received at the Russian embassy here today. THE HAGUE, Oct. 2. Travelers arriving here conlirm reports that German strongholds along the Rhine arebeing prepared for anv attacks. They state that activity is especially noticeable at Cologne. LONDON, Oct. 2. A Central News dispatch from Copenhagen says: "The reported suicide of Gen. von Kluck has been denied." This is the first time that such a rumor has been received here. It was a British news agency that started the report that Gen. von. Emmich had committed suicide in Belgium.

LONDON, Oct. 2. The roval commission appeared when the war began to block efforts of the food holding to corner the market!

ana uoost prices tar above normal, submitted its report todav showing that it had accomplished its work in an effective manner. The commission itself cornered the sugar market buving about 900,000 tons at an average price of Sioo a ton and selling it to the refiners upon the condition that thev dispose of it to retailers at a lixed moderate price. Most of the sugar came from Cuba, Java, Demerara and Mauretius. THOUSANDS OF WOUNDED DIE FOR WANT OF CARE; RED CROSS IS SWAMPED

Straw Lined Freight Cars Bear Injured From Battle Front to Paris Where Hospitals Are Crowded to Limit. PAKIS, Oct. 2. The Bed Cross and ' allied institutions of mercy have been swamped with the vast number of wounded soldiers from the reat battle of the Aisne. Karly in the conflict Paris was overwhelmed by the constant stream of wounded men that flowed In from the north and cast. Hospitals were established in the suburbs, but these were filled immediately and now all of southern and western Franco is full of stations for the care of tho wounded. There is a constant call for volunteer doctors and nurses. Many wounded British soldiers have been sent to Enpland for treatment, but a lurtfo number of them were so severely hurt that they could not stand the journey. lUniato Allies' Ioss nt 100,000. Judins from the casualties of the first week of the Kipantic engagement it wiill be safe, to estimate the losses of the allies up to v!ate at more than 100, CCO. Of theso tho greater part were wounded, but many that wera originally classed as wounded have since died. The greater part of the wounded are brought southward by night. There is little place in a creat war like the present one f r tenderness, so most of the private soldiers that nxo brought from the front come in cattle cars, upon couches of blood soaked straw. In somo instances ordinary freight cars were used. The floor is covered with straw to the depth of two feet. Only lVv Surgeons. Th? wounded are then arranged in public here increases to more than 123,000 the total of dead, wounded and missing. The latest Hst is only of tho dead. As published in the Taceblatt It gives only the regiments and tho number of officers and men killed, but the list fills four columns. One regiment alone lost 400, nearly one-seventh of Its total enrollment.

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the car and the door is locked. Thero is little air and no food nor water. Only a few trains aro accompanied by surgeons because their services are too badly needed at. the front. Komc times a smoky lantern, that pives off a stench of oil and but llttlo light, is hung: in tho car. More often, however, tho cars aro in total darkness. At times, owing to a change of position or a movement of artillery, the freight trains fllled with wounded men are shunted about upon side tracks for hours, each sudden jerk of the train sending pangs of torture through the fever racked bodies of the victims. In the close, stinking cars, the Mood-soaked straw soon gives a horrible stench which adds its mite to the misery of tho war victims. The rumble of tho trains covers tho groans and shrieks of agony, but when a train load of wounded comes (CONTINUED ON" PAGE TWELVE)

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SEA HEIST THE P NUN VESSELS UL Admiralty Announces New Plan of Action in North Sea to Retaliate for Losses of Many Ships. GERMANS BOMBARDING RHEIMS SIXTEENTH DAY Huge Shells Bursting All Over City Wreak More Havoc With Ruins of Cathedral of Notre Dame. LONDON', Oct. 2. In retaliation for losses inflicted on British ships by German mines, the Rritish government has decided to adopt similar methods. Ollicial announcement, was made by the admiralty today that mines would be laid in certain portions of tho North sea. ".Mines are being laid on a considerable scale." says a statement issued by tho admiralty. "This is being done in defined areas as .ounter measures to German submarines and mines." Numerous disasters not only to British merchant ships, war vessels ami fishing trawlers, but also to neutral vesseis, caused the admiralty to reach this decision. kiikims stiijj i;oMUAiini:i). II! I KIMS, Oct. 2. (liy courier to Paris) For 16 days this city haa been under a continuous German tire. As I write this dispatch huge shells weighing 24 pounds each, are whistling through the air and exploding with terrific crashes all over the city, wrecking buildings in every quarter. The lire is not now directed against the wrecked cathedral of Notre Dame, although during Monday nigh- four shells fell there and shattered tho roof and exploded harmlessly in tho ruined interior. They did not affect tho statues or walls; About 4 o'clock this morning its intensity increased. That is about the hour whic-h the French think is the most faorable to storm the German batteries and from what 1 have seen of tho French troops I am convinced that th?y can sweep all before them. I know the troops 1 have seen here could do it. Consul's Home Wrecked. The United States consul, William Pardel. left the city today fo Troy and after a month here which was tilled with hair-breadth escapes. His home was half wrecked by shells and his writing desk in his library is punctured with lead. The windows of the house aro smashed and the American flag flying from the balcony i ripped and gashed by the withering lire. The home of the American vice consul has been completely destroyed. When tho Germans first bombarded Rheims on Sept. 4 Consul Bardel appealed to them to spare tho city. Tells of lkHnbarilment. Dut he pleaded in vain. Here Is Mr. Bardel's own account of the bombardment: "The tlrst German army was at Rrimont when a second army from Epernay suddenly entered tho city. The commander of the second army was talking to the mayor and members of the municipal council upon the steps of the town hall arranging the terms of occupation, when the first German army opened lire with its artillery and poured 150 sheas into the city upon its own troops. The commander. suspecting a French trap, threatened to shoot the mayor and all the members of the council, but subsequently discovered that they were Germans. Then he dispatched a courier In an automobile to Ihe first army, ordering it to cease firing, which it did at once." run: ix m veil park norsi:. A fire at tho home of James Ceroid, 935 S. Sixth St.. River Park. Friday morning, gave No. r department a run. A blaze started in the roof, caused, it is thought, by a defective flue. The property is owned by William Hutchinson. The damage has not been estimated.

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THOUSANDS MARCHING IN PARADE TO URGE NEED OF DISEASE PREVENTION

First Celebration of Holiday in South Bend Gives Promise of Bearing Fruit Displays Exploit Sanitation. Disease Prevention day in rfouth Rend gives promise of bearing fruit. Simultaneously with eery city in Indiana, houth Rend took up the work of advertising sanitation. In a hundred different ways modern methods of maintaining cleanliness were portrayed, and comparisons were made with the old superstitious ways used in tho past. .Lined on both sides with booths each setting forth by apt illustrations a tolling point in the campaign for the promotion of health, the exhibit room in the old Sailor Rros. store on S. Michigan St., must be conceded a place of first importance in tho features of Disease Prevention day. The exhibit opened Friday morning and was filled all day with interested visitors. The exhibit will be preserved intact throughout the coming week in order to give everyone an opportunity to see it. Displays in Windows. The two laryo show windows of the store have been turned over to the children's dispensary and to the home-making department of the publie school. The high school girls, assisted by Miss Ada llillier, head of the home-making department, and her assistant faculty, have arranged in the noith window the dining room in the home of a family of six. Huge posters on the walls explain in simple terms the different foods which contribute to the upbuilding of the body and set forth the point that tho least expensive foods are the moat nourishing. The table is set with the simple foods which should constitute the meal of the average family of six in order to get the most for the money. The dispensary exhibit consists of several dolls dressed to show the proper and improper way o:' clothing infants, dolls sleeping in approved cribs and dolls enjoying the luxury of the bath. The wall is covered with a seiies of posters illustrating causes of and remedies for infant mortality. Many Arrange Rootlis. Inside tho various booths have been arranged by tho Visiting Nurse association, the Florence Crittenton eirck, the -Antl-tuberculos'.s league, the Anti-saloon league and Christian Temperance tmions, the Associated Charities, physicians, opticians, dentists, grocers -and butchers. the National Consumers' league and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., as well as the Dispensarj asstxiation fnd the school department of household economics. Every booth strikes home to someone and some booths strike home to everyone, as for instance the home economics booths in which some 50 or f,0 common food stuffs are arranged to show their comparative value In the amount of money spent and the amount of nourishment gained. It Is shown that there is tvS much heat value in 1.01 ounces of beans as there is in one pound of spinach. There is as much heat value in live dates as there is in two grape fruits. The Illustrations go on "ad infinitum" and everyone is a revelation of value to any housewife. Another illustration of interest consists of two market baskets, rach containing one dollar's worth of food, but one Just twice as valuable as the other In point of food value. Clover Hotins Exhibit. The housing exhibit prepared by the Associated Charities consists of a sfries of cleverly conceived posters illustrating a parody on "The House That Jack Ruilt," showing the effect of poor tenement houses not only on the tenants but upon th? we;ilth which b iiit them. The Grim Reaper trarbed in black and carrying his threatening scytho commands attention to the statistics assembled against alcoholism by the Anti-tuberculosis league and the Temperance unions. The Visiting Nurse association has furnished two kitchens and two bed rooms in contrasting conditions, rooms on the one hand which breed disease through dirt and disorder and those on tho other hand nhlch promote health and happiness.! The Metropolitan exhibit is along similar lines. Tho Antl-tubereulosi ; league shows in its exhibit a model house with sleeping porch and window and veranda arrangements which will afford substitutes for out-of-door sleplnc. together with pictures and statistical data and practical inJV-rmation con TIMES ffl n CONTEST $q3)

cerning the causes and spread of th ds.'iease. Care of the Teeth. The effect of poorly cared-for teeth upon the whole system, causes of and means of preventing blindness and the causes and spread of insanity are tho subjects of several cf the smaller booths. Now a modern grocery which takes into account the health as well as the satisfaction of its customers should be ntted up, how fo.ul stuffs should bo protected from contamination is the contribution f the Grocers' association. A collection of la ?e collars, ribbon effects, false hair, and other articles v.hl.-h are farmed out by manufacturers to workers in filthy tenements and from there spread disease into the homes of purchasers lias been sent by the National Consumers" league to encourage the buying of labeled goods. Kvery booth is worth serious study and the entire exhibit is one of tinniest remarkable ever shown in the city both in point of purpose and in point of finality of material collects I and manner of exhibit. As had been promised, outh Rend stores were thrown open to tho public in gala attire and displays of merchandise especially suggestive of disease prevention were thrown conspicuously before the people. Windows of the large down town stores were used to advertise articles of sanitation and every possible stunt n;ts employed to Impress the value of disease prevention on the minds of the passersby. Largo banners were strung across the streets and were draped from the department stores, hotels and business buildings of the down town districts. American Hags were suspended wherever possible. Featuring the day was the parade In which more than 7,000 school children marched, as well as a long list of floats, and representatives of the various city organizations, fraternal, social, civic and commercial. The parade was managed by W. J. Wright, Charles Powers and Harry 1. Verrick. Prizes will be given to the best floats entered by tho schools. Dr. J. B. Berteling. Mr??. Lafayette Ii Van and S. G. Chard acting as judges. The balcony over the Oliver hotel Main st. entrance was used as a Judge's stand. Doctors and nurses were stationed at various corners past which the procession marched, to render any necessary aid. The first division headed by Mr. Wright, led the parade. The following organizations formed the division: Chief Millard Kerr and platoon of (CONTINFKD ON PAG 10 TWO)

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Czar's Troops Put Germans Into Full Retreat West of River Niemen and Siege of Ossowiecz is Lifted. IIY l-'ItANClS LAYKILi: MURRAY. PETROGRAD. Oct. 2. Tho second day battle between the Germans and Russians west of the river Niemen in Poland has ended in victory for the czar's troops, according to an oiFicial announcement issued here today. Tho Germans aro in full retreat and tho siege of Ossowiecz has been lifted. The official statement follows: 'The Germans are retreating from the borders of Suwalki and the government ol" Lomze under pressure. Violent hlitimc has taken place at Slmno. The Germans who attacked t Ossowiecz are hurriedly retreating north into Eastern Prussia. German forces of considerable size nae concentrated on the Kielec-Pieotrokow line, but Russian cavalry have stopped their advance.' Rears Out Theory. News of the German concentration of the Kielec line which is southwestern Poland, bears out the theory that tho invasion of Suwalki .and Lomza by (U-n. von HindenLerg was merely a movement to cover the strengthening of th" positions where the Germans will make their actual defense against tho main Russian attack. These positions extend over a line between Thorn, Eastern Prussia and Cracow, Galicia. In this connection it is reported that tho German and Austrian forces assembled at Cracow and along the Thorn-Cracow lino number 2,500,0'iy men. Part of the German troops there were formerly resisting the French and Hritish in tho western theater, but were replaced there by reserves. Command of tho allied German and Austrian armies raid to be held by a German general and the rumor was revived today that Emperor William, accompanied by Field Marshal von Moltk, had leen in Ureslau for some time. Criticizes Operation-. The German operations were severely criticized by Col. Shurnsky, military expert of the Rours Razctte, today "The Germans,"' he said, "are hastening to concentrate a mass of troop between Breslau and Cracow In order to advance on the ri:ht bank of the Vistula, and thus compel the Russians either to evacuate Galicia or to accept a decisive battle. "The Germans are displaying an inordinate appetite. Not content with undertaking a decisive engagement in Silesia they are trying a sb-g at Ossowiecz. at tho other end of the strategic front. at Novem

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WESTOFTHE OISE Fighting Extends Toward North Indicating Enveloping Movement Against von Kluck Continues to Succeed. GERMAN BRIDGE OVER MEUSE IS DESTROYED Engineers5 Attempt to Furnish Passage for Troops Fails When Allies Blow up Span Over River at Night. BY FRANKLIN P. MERRICK. PARIS, Oct. 2.A cnuc Kittle is in progress Ivtwivn te - llies :mJ tht ("if rnruiv ?i tb, -.Vln ity of Rove, west d" the Oise, where the Germans have concentrated heavy forces, according to an olllcial annoiinmvn i,u'here at 3 o'clock this afternoon. It is stated that the battle seems to he extending more, and more , toward the north. This indicates ithat the French left win is maintaming its success in the enveloping movement against Gen. v.m Kluck. The liejitine; has even readied the districts south of Arras. German troops operating against the French right wing have attempted to construct a bridge over the Meuse, to allow the passage of German troops, hut it has" been d est roved. The complete oriicial statement v.-as as follows: 4"1. On our left wing the bartie continues with great" violence, notably in the region of Rove, where the Germans appear t have concentrated large forces. The action is extending more and more toward the north. The battle front has actually been extended even into the region south of Arras. "2. On the Meue the Geimans tried to build near St. Mihiel a bridge which had been destroyed by night. In the Woevre region our ohensive continues and it advances step by step, notably in the region between Apremont and St. Mihiel. "3. On, all the ret of the tront only partial operations have been attempted on either side." With reinforcements whbh were shifted to his army from the end ef th battl line, Gn. von Kluck. command r of the Ct rniiin ritrht wimr, h.been m:ikin iob-nt efforts for thr past is hours t pbrc' th left win of the allies and out off the French troops north of the So:nm- from th? balance of tho army. Tho heaviest lighting h:.. e-nt'-re i around Roye- and along a front -- ! tending frm Reruns to Combb-s, l.-.a unol!;clal reports from th" nrth stab; that the Germans have , n unsuecewsjai. Th' Kreneh ar' said to h.-i advanced and to ha'.e oucuph 1 important positions. Fighting in General. Fighting is general all along tl lon battle line whieh m-v.- extc:.'. from lr.n to i;o miles owir.sr to tli sweep of Or;. Il'Al'i I'i'-i lore s to. ward th northeast. As a .'esult of their '. i-iTo is s'forts north f Xt. Quent.n the J'p nrh wer able to cut one of I-n. von Kl'J' k'.line of communications ;u-t Mondiov areordir.ir to adIes from the frorr. The Germans have been riqhtinwlth th' desperation of despair hi. I In the course of one nit;ht S'nrn !olent chart's wen IitU 4 ag .ir.st th. r. - French b ft, Ml of which v. fro pulsed. Throughout the day'the German aitillery has be ri kept, in actb::, th heavy fruns hurling shells over th trenches of the French an I the.r Fritish allies. Off en l Clioketl. An intercepted wirejes.-, me--. from Gen. von Kluck cout.iirs tio pes-slrnistlc information th.it G--r;. vo.-i Kluck's offensive movement h.oj ) oheked. It stated that the Crmans had encountered black U"o.j that may have l-een th Indians h landed at Marseilles find were rushe.! to the firing line. If that v. ere th.ease th Hindoos have evidently b- -i 5tationed to the wm of th British forces under Field Marshal Sir Joh.i French. In spite of the terrif.c etf,,r;.-, . f both ride:; and the furious attaeks a:. I counter-attacks int-reeptel with nonadlnj" the great battle n the Ai-r. which besran on Sept. 12 is still without decisive result. The r,tr.c:al irformation from the French 'ar '"- lice still makes no mention of tl-: German retreat although unofficial reports from the north have stated th..t from time to time darir.ir the pat 7(COXT1NFKD UN PAGF TWKLVKi

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