2 DECISIVE
Armies Conversing
for Death Grapple
ALLIES MORE HOPEFUL
Situation Favorable tor Making
Strong Detense
NEWS IS RIGIDLY CENSORED
London, Sept. 2.—The left wing o
the French army has again fallen
back. According to the war office re
port this withdrawal from position
was made to avoid an unfavorable en
gagement which might have been de
cisive. The center and right, accord
ing to official reports, are holding out
firmly. There is severe fighting along
the line from Rheims to La Fere and
there have been a number of engage
ments along the Lorraine border and
•' in the Vosges.
The French minister of war issued
a-call for the reservists OL tiie Frem h
territorial army living in north and
northeastern France. The step is said
to be preliminary to calling out all
reservists in the country who have not
previously been summoned.
On three sides the allies' position
is surrounded by four German di
visions, comprising in all more than
a million men, according to the esti
mates here. Attacking at different
points they are converging on Laon.
General Von Buelow's column of Prus
sians in the lead has fought its way
past St. Quentin to within about
twenty miles of the Laon-La Fere
forts. On the left Von Kluk's army
is pressing down from Combles, in the
department of the Somme. A third
corps under General Von Hausen has
forced the allies back to Rethel, on
the Aishe river, and a fourth column
under the Duke of Wurtemberg ap
parently has pushed them back along
iho Rocroi-Meizieres line and is ad
vancing also upon the Laon battle
ground, which promises to be the de
cisive encounter of the kaiser's north
ern campaign.
The Paris correspondent of the
Evening News quotes the driver of
one of the automobiles of the British
general staff, who has returned to
Paris from the front, as saying that
the German advance has been well
checked to the north of Compeigne
and the Germans have asked for au
armistice to bury their dead.
Compeigne is at the junction of the
Oise and the Aisne rivers, twenty
eight miles southwest of La Fere,
where the British were reported last
week, and is only forty-live miles
northwest of Paris.
In the northeast of France the
French have checked the Germans in
the district of Rethel, twenty miles
southwest of Sedan, the scene of the
crushing of French hopes forty-four
years ago.
Dispatches from Paris announce that
the war office lias issued a communi
que announcing that the minister of
war has decided to call out all re
servists in France who have not al-
Teady joined tFie colors.
French military experts, according
to Paris dispatches, express the opin
ion that the allies are now in a better
position than they have yet occupied,
while the Germans, should they fail
in the present battles on the northern
line, would be left in a dangerous posi
tion and with exhausted troops.
The British army is believed to be
about to engage the German extreme
right unless it already lias done so.
The British troops were removed after
the severe lighting of last week and
their losses have been made good with
fresh troops. The statements that the
British, while losing heavily in the
fighting at Cambrai, St. Quentin and
the other towns in their retreat last
week —the official figures were 6,000
men —had inflicted far greater losses
on the enemy are borne out by a dis
patch from Midelkerke. Belgium,
quoting a Red Cross nurse as saying
that the Germans lost 25,000 men at
Cambrai alone.
Dispatches from Ostend say that a
German troop train has been blown up
in southern Belgium and that many of
the troops were killed.
The German defenses in east Prus
sia have been strengthened. Reports
from St. Petersburg say the Russian
advance has met with reverses. Re
ports from Berlin say the engagement
at Allenstein was one of the greatest
battles of the war, that 120.000 Rus
sians were killed and 70,000 taken
prisoners. The Russians claim that
their advance has not been checked
and that they are occupying defenses
around Koenigsberg.
St. Petersburg, by an imperial edict
issued by the czar, according to a
correspondent, has been renamed
Petrograd. The termination "burg"
has been dropped off, it is assumed
because of its German origin.
.Reports from Vienna say that along
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the Russian, Prussian and Austrian
border 3,000,000 men are engaged and
that the battle line extends tor 4<'<J
miles. The Austrian .flanking move
ment- at Lublin is reported to have
been a failure, entailing considerable
loss and a withdrawal from Russian
Poland. Lemberg is invested by the
Russians, their lines half encircling
the city, Austria is recalling troop?
from France and is also bringing back
more of the soldiers who .were sent to
the Drina and Danube.
London, Sept. 2. -Four huge armies
comprising the kaiser's northern army
of invasion are fighting their way
steadily toward Laon. The allies, re
sisting fiercely but falling back in
good order, apparently were conceit
trating on litis strong position at tin
head of the Oise valley with the inten
tion of staging there the decisive bat
tle which they hope will send tin
kaiser's legions beaten and shattered,
back into Belgium and break the re
lentless German advance that threat
ens Paris itself.
Absolute mystery envelops the fifty
mile battle IVont from Peronne, in tie
department of the Somme, to Verviers
in Aisne, where the moves in this con
flict, so vital to the safety of Paris, ar.
being enacted. The French war orti-e
was mute and the government censors
pruned the news dispatches with a
severity unparalleled since the war be
gan. It was evident that the allies
will stake their last hope of checking
the German invasion from the nor hi
on tlie Laon battle, which even now
may be in progress.
The tone of the few dispatches
which were permitted to come through
was more encouraging for the allies
than for several days. Unofficial re
ports that the kaiser's advance ii . !
been checked were reported as bei;
current in Paris, and it was insisted
that although the allies had been
giving ground before the Germans fot
the last week, their troops were in
good order and in perfect shape fo*
the supreme battle which is to decide
the fate of the German army in west
ern Europe.
Another report hinted strongly at
an attack in the invaders' rear by a
British army which was supposed to
have landed in OsLend.
Paris, Sept. 2.—The war office is
sued the following communique:
"On our left the enveloping move
ment oi' the Germans lias been con
tinued and on this account, so as not
to be forced to accept a decisive en
gagement, which would have to oe
fought in bad conditions, our troops
have been withdrawn partly toward
the south and partly toward the south
west.
"The engagement in the Rethel dis
trict enabled our troops to check the
enemy.
"In the center and on the right (tlie
Wouevre, Lorraine and the Vosges)
the situation remains unchanged.
"A squadron of armored aeroplanes,
armed with mitrailleuses, has been
formed to give chase to the German
aeroplanes which are flying over Paris.
"The American committee, orgac.
ized by the ambassador of the United
States in Paris on the day of th<~
declaration of war. asked the minister
of war if he would be kind enough to
give them proofs that the bombs which
fell in Paris had been thrown from i
German aeroplane. M. Millerand, in
response to this request, placed before
the ambassador of the United States
and the two delegates of the commit
tee all the official documents.
"The ambassador, who, as well as
the members of the delegation, took
official note of tlie documents which
were submitted to them, has decided
to send by cable to his government
a report on these methods of warfare
which are not only acts against hu
manity but are also an absolute viola
tion of The Hague convention counter
signed by Germany herself.
"The committee, moreover, decided
to ask the American government
while remaining faithful to its declara
tion of neutrality, to make an ener
getie protest to the German govern
ment"
THE PATRIOT
GERMANS TARE
MANY PRISONERS
Claim to Have Captured 70,-
000 Russians In Battle
GREAT RTJOXIG IN GERL!;.
News Received on Anniversary 01
Victory st Sedan in 1870—Assert
Russians Were Defeated In Battle
Ir. East Prussia—Throe Army Corps
Annihilated and Ali Their Artillery
Captured, With 300 Officers.
Washington, Sept. 3. —At tlie Ger
man embassy this morning it war
stated that the G* rnians had defeatec
and annihilated three Russian arm\
corps, driving them into Ute swamp
killing 140,C00 Russians and captu.
ing 70,000 prisoners, including tv.
generals, 300 office .'s and all ti.e art .
lery belong.ng to the Russian arr.
engaged. This victory.is said to h>.
been gained at. Oriel, in eastern ion
sia.
The dispatch from Berlin conveyii t
this news says:
"Official reports or" the victory at
Allfnstein great- r t: vn r#r< v! u.l.
cl?irrrd. Three Russian 'army cor*
were annihilated, 70,000 prisoner
taken, including two commanding go:,
eruls and more than JOO, other office *:•
and the complete artillery ol the Hus
sian army."
With this statement of the mos
steupendou's disaster to. an enemy"
force since the surrender of Metz i.
the Pru sians in IS7O, the German for
feign office couples tiie following nev.,
of the suc<essiui activities of the Gci
man forcers in Belgium and norther
France:
"in the west, General Kluk has re
pulsed tiie French flanking attempt
and advanced on Combles. Genera
Von Buelow completely defeated a su
perior French force near St. Quentiu
after having surrounded and cap
tured an English infantry battalio.)
at that point. General Von Hause.i
forced back the French force upon
the river at ltetehel. The Duke o.
Wurtemburg has crossed the Meu-a
river, advancing against Aisne. Tie
army of the Grown Prime Frederick
Wilhelm is now advancing beyond tit*
iVfeuse, alter having captured the en
tire French garrison at Montmedy,!
which had attempted a sortie in form.
The fortress of Montmedy was als<
captured. The army under the crown j
prince ol llavaria has been in con
tinuous action against the French in
Lorraine."
'TIS DIFFERENT NOW
Paris in 1914 Not Easy Prey It Was
In IC7O.
Paris, Sep.. 2. l ot- Matin, referrin.
to the differences of conditions it:
1870 and 1914, p..hits out that the fort*
surrounding Paris are now seven ami
eight miles front the outer walls, so
that no German shell ran reach tie
public monuments. The Germans in
1870 held the railroad between Stras
burg a. id Paris out in 1914 they ar>
conipt lied to provision their army
through Belgium if they invest Paris.
Tiie Con I e de Muti in a similar com
parison in the Echo de Paris says:
"In IS7O, after two battles fought
on the same day, one of our armies
was thrown, utterly routed, from the
frontier to Chalons. The other army
retreated to Metz and later Borny.
Rezonville and Saint Privat, shut itsc i
up and was useless henceforth. Sedan
foliowetLfourteon days later. The war
between the battle of Wisseabourg and
this calamity had lasted twenty-nine
days.
"We now, on the thirtieth day after
mobilization, have been checked, not
defeated. We have retired, we have
not been routed. Our armies are in
tact and their morale has not been
affected."
WILL AVOiD TROUBLE
Secretary McAdoo Reassures Commit
tee on Merchant Marine.
Washington, Sept. 2. —Assurances
that President Wilson will steer a
course during the European war that
will enable tbe United States to main
tain its neutral attitude without criti
cism from any one abroad were today
given to the committee on merchant
marine by Secretary McAdoo.
Mr. McAdoo was commenting on
suggestions that had been made that
if the United States attempted to oper
ate ships, as proposed in the pending
administration bill, it would be court
ing trouble with some of the Euro
pean belligerents. The secretary of
the treasury told the house that there
need be no concern on this score.
"There is no more puncitilious citi
zen of this country regarding its neu
trality than the president," observed
Mr. McAdoo. "i think you can safely
trust him and the proposed shipping
board not to take any steps in buying
ships that would be calculated to
violate the country's neutrality."
Asks $5,000 Heart Balm.
Somerset, Pa., Sept. 2. — Miss
• Crissey, a head waitress in a local
hotel, filed papers in a breach of
promise proceeding against Frank W.
Simpson, theatrical and business man
here. Miss Crissey alleges that Simp
son promised to marry her and she is
suing for $5,000.
Brother ot Kaiser, Who Holds
High Naval Rank
PRINCE HENRY.
GLIMPSES OF THE WAR
Copenhagen, Sept. 2. —A member ol
the Austrian general staff who was a
passenger in an aejroplaue, was killed
when the machine fell ou the Austrb
Russian frontier.
Buffalo, N. V., Sept. 2. —Captain E.
L. Jeunay, an officer of the French
aeronautical corps, has purchased torn
military hydroaeroplanes for use in
the French army.
Rome, Sept. 2. —Telegrams from
Bucharest, Itoumania, declare that the
Austrian defeat in Galicia was colos
sal. Trains are transporting tens ot
thousands of wounded. Numerous
Austrian regiments were destroyed.
Milan, Sept. 2. —The Corriere Delia
Serra prints a dispatch from Rome cc
the effect that Prince William ol
Wied, the mpret of Albania, in co
operation with the Austrian and Tur
kisli governments, is trying to start
an insurrection among the Albanian
Mohammedans against Servia.
Tokio, Sept. 2. —A Japanese expedi
tionary force has occupied the island
of Tsichiu in Kiauchau bay facing
the German forts of Tsingtau. A Jap
anese destroyer which had gone
aground on Lientau island was do
stroyed by the German gunboat
Jaguar.
Copenhagen, Sept. 2.—A dispatch,
received here from Berlin says:
"Great battles are raging in east Prus
sia. The Germans have surrounded
the Russians on three sides and have
forced them into the lakes and
: wamps of the Maur region.
"There is great jubilation here over
the glorious result which was due IO
the ability of our staff."
London, Sept. 2. —King George
wishes to have racing continued not
withstanding the war and will enter
his own horses.
The Daily Chronicle Milan cor
respondent reports the destruction of
Lou vain and Malines have caused in
tense indignation at the Vatican.
A dispatch received from Ostend
says Independence, a local newspaper,
declares that the German governor of
Brussels has ordered the expulsion of
the British residents within twenty
lour hours.
Rome, Sept. 2. —Dispatches received
here say the German garrison at
Thorn and Gradunze failed to check
tlte Russian advance. Despite the re
inforcements which they have re
ceived, the Austrians are retiring from
Gaiicia. They are unable to stand the
Russian bayonet charges. Numerous
prisoners, guns and flags have been
captured by the Russians.
Vienna, Sept. 2. —The Niehe Freie
Presse announces that an anti-war
revolution has broken out in London,
where taxieabs are placarded with the
inscription, "We do not want war."
Moscow, Sept. 2. —Jewish doctors
and medical students have been ad
mitted to the Red Cross service. Under
the law members of this race are not
admitted to the Red Cross under
ordinary circumstances.
Boy Drawn Into Threshing Machine.
Sharon, Pa., Sept. 2. —Maddis Me
gargee, aged filteen, son of Wilson
Megargee of Clarksville, Mercer coun
ty, was seriously injured when he was
drawn into a threshing machine.
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* WEATHER EVERYWHERE. *
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• Obsprvnt'ons at United States *
• weather bureau taken at Bp. m. *
• yesterday follow: *
• Temp. Weather. •
• Pittsburgh 88 Cloudy *
• New York 79 Cloudy *
• Boston 76 Clear *
• Buffalo 72 Cloudy *
• Chicago....... 80 Cloudy *
• St. Louis 86 Clear *
• New Orleans.. 82 Cloudy *
• Philadelphia... 78 Cloudy *
• Washington.... 80 Cloudy •
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* The Weather.
* Cloudy and cooler tonight; *
* Thursday, fair; west winds. •
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WORLD WATCHES
FOR SMOKE SIGN
Cardinals Voting T Mj on Suc
cessor to Late Pep 3
MAFFI LEADER IN THE VOTING
Burning of Ballots In Wet or Dry
Straw Sign by Which Anxious Thou
sands In St. Peter's Square Learn
Result of Balloting—Merry Del Vat
Receives Complimentary Vote In
Recognition of Services.
Rome, Sept. 2. —Though several bal
lots in the papal election have been
taken, no result has yet been an
nounced. Today, as yesterday, St.
Peter's square is crowded with thou
sands whose eyes are lixed on the
chimney of the Sistine chapel lookin ;
for the signal that announces an ele -
tion. Dark smoke has issued from th<>
chimney after each ballot, but the
thin, light-colored smoke signal tin
indicates an election has not yet been
seen.
Although all the proceedings of tin
sacred college are supposed to be hid
den from the world until the iinal re
sult is it was reporter
after tiie second ballot that Cardinal
Maffi was leading in the voting.
Cardinal Merry de 4 \'al, papal secr<
tary of state of Pope Pius, is said to
have received a number of votes ;n
the first builot, chieliv, it is said, in
recognition ol his services to the late
pontiff.
The significance of the little smok
wreaths wukli convey intelligence ot
the number of ballots and their issu \
lies in the fact that after an unsuc
cessful vote is taken the ballots are
mixed with wet straw, which emits a
dark smoke, and burned. When a
pope is elected the ballots are mixed
with dry straw and the resulting-thin
smoke is hailed by those in the street
as the sign that the election is over.
The serious political situation re
sulting front the war has so impressed
the foreign < ordinals, that, it is said,
they have agreed to vote for an
Italian.
ARMIES NEED SHOES
War Causes Boom In Many Lines ot
Business.
New York, Sept, 2. --Reports from
American manufacturers show a boom
In various lines of industry as a result
of the European war. Several tluu
sand shoe workers in Sr. Louis have
returned to their machines in the
factories which were closed two we .s
ago, following the declaration of war
by Germany. Three new shoe factories
will be built at Salem, Mass.
Experts in the shoe trade say that
the armies in Europe will require 1
000,OUU pairs of shoes a month. An
advance in the price of shoes is in
evitable, it is said. Factories manu
facturing glazed kid for shoe uppers
are behind in their orders and are run
ning at full capacity.
Paper and pulp mills are working
on lull time and wail paper mills re
port big business. Despite the ad
vance in the price of raw silk the si.'a
mills are placing heavy orders.
The outlook in the woolen industry
is very bright. Mills in parts of New
England are working nights because
of big orders and a new mill is bmng
built at Washington, it. i., to meet in
creased business.
Work has been resumed in the
carpet mills in Amsterdam, N. T.,
alter a live weeks' shutdown.
TURKEY SEEKING TROUBLE
fl
Believed to Be Aoout to Declare War
on the Allies.
Washington, Sept. 2.—Great Britain
has asked the United States to take
care of her diplomatic interests in
Turkey in case of a declaration ol war
on the allies by the porte, which is
momentarily expected.
The British embassy lias been in
formed by a cable from London that
German officers bad gone to Con
stantinople to lake charge of the Tur
kish army and that a declaration of
war from Turkey was expected.
A Rome cablegram received here
says:
"A telegram received from Berlin
announces the mobilization of the
Turkish army.
"Following the advice of Field Mar
shal Baron von Der Goltz, it is stated,
the Turkish government will form an
army of the first line composed of
200,000 men, all Mohammedans.
"Seventy-two superior German of
ficers forming the German military
mission at Constantinople have been
incorporated in the Turkish army and
will participate in the war.
"The presence of German officers
in the army is interpreted to mean that
Turkey will fight on the side of Ger
many.'*
Mrs. Longstreet Bankrupt.
Trenton, N- J., Sept. 2. —Mrs. Helen
D. Longstreet, widow of General Long
gtreet of the Confederate army, filed
a petition in bankruptcy in the United
States court here. She gives her as
sets as $16,200 and her liabilities as
$22,236.
Canada's Wheat Crop.
Winnipeg. Man., Sept. 2. —The of
ficial estimate of the western Canada
, wheal crop ia 135,000,000 bush els.
PUBLIC NOTICE OF APPLICA
TION FOR CHARTER
In the Court of Common Pleas for
the County of Indiana.
No. 214 September Term, 1014
Notice is hereby given that ait
application will be made to the
said Court oil Monday, September
21, 1014. at 1:30 o'clock l\ M. un
der ' An Act to provide for the
incorporation and regulation of
certain Corporations" approved
April 29, 1874, and its supple
ments, by D. L. Trunzo. James A
Bianco, Gas per o Cardamone, A
R. Formica, Salvatore Pizzafer
rata, William F. Gatti, Abraham
Fallow. Louis Peeora, Donato Sta
bile. Joe Riggi, Pietro lannuzzi
and Domenieo Marrone for the
Charter of an intended Corpora
tion to be called 'WiIRISTO
PIIER COLUMBUS MUTUAL.
AID SOCIETY OF ITALIANS
OF 110MER CITY, PA." (Delia
Societa ltaliana Christoforo Co
lombo di Mtituo Soecorso di Ho
mer City, Pa.), the character and
object of which is to furnish aid,
help and assistance to the mem
bers of the society in case of sick
ness, death or distress, to elevate
their civil, moral and social stand
ing and to disseminate general
knowledge among them, and for
these purposes to hate, possess
and enjoy all the rights, benefits
and privileges conferred bv the
said Act and its supplements
thereof.
The proposed Charter is on tile
at the Prothonotary's Office.
PEELOR & FETT,
Solicitors.
RESOLUTIONS.
Do you want to make some new
resolutions? Consider these: Re
solved to live with all my might
while I do live; resolved never
to lose one moment of time, but
improve it in the most profitable
way I possibly can; resolved never
to do anything which I should de
spise or think meanly of in another;
resolved never to do anything out
of revenge; resolved never to do
anything which I should be afraid
to do if it were the last hour of my
life. —Jonathan Edwards.
Insects and Flowers.
Experiments on showy flowers like
the poppy tend to show that inserts
are not always attracted to flowers by
the brightly colored petals, but rather
by the perception—doubtless by means
of smell—that there is honey or pollen.
In these experiments the unopened
flower bud is iuelosed in a gauze net
so as to protect it from insects, and
when it expands the petals are care
fully removed without touching the re
maining parts with tlie fingers (fo
bees avoid a flower if the smell of hu
man fingers is left on it>, and the petal
less flowers receive practically us
many insect visits as untouched flow
ers do.
Proof Positive.
"Is Professor Doderswell really so
nearsighted?"
"Fearfully. Why, 1 saw him at the
zoo the other day looking at the ele
phant through a magnifying glass."—
New York Post.
Hannah More's Strictness.
For real Sabbatarianism we must go
back a little There was Hannah
More, for instance, who refused to
dine out on the Sabbath and retired to
her own room on the very hint of
music on that day. And more. Ex
pressions like "christening" a ship, the
"salvation" of a country or the "ascen
sion" of a balloon were quite against
her idea of the fitness of the use of
words which had been exalted by their
religious associations. — London Chron
icle.
Champagne.
Champagne Is a product of France.
It was invented or discovered there
250 years ago.
Thi Was In Denmark.
An Englishman having business in a
certain Danish town arrived at the
railway station. _ He inquired of a
group of men standing near the way
to the house be wanted, whereupon
one of them offered to go with him
and show him. With recollections of
what such a service meant in Eng
land he said. "I don't want a guide."
"But surely you asked us to show you
the way," said one of them. "Y'es, but
I don't want a guide." "My dear sir,
I am not a guide; I am the bishop."
Genial Greeting.
He—Yon were getting ready to go
out, and I'm afraid my call is inop
portune! She— Iteally and truly, I
would much rather stay here and talk
with you than keep my engagement
this afternoon! He—l am delighted!
But can the engagement be broken
without Inconvenience? She — Oh, y€!
The dentist won't mind!
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