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EVENING kEtfGER-PHIT.ABELHIA', BATtTftflAJ-, SEPTEMBEB 10, 101&
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ENEMIES' POSITION
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? g Out to Draw Fire and
SioW Opponents Strength,
Wi fimnll Chance ot
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iscape.
nOTTEItDAM. Sept. 19.
,rnlne Ihc German Uhlatu. of
'" ... .... hnn hoard In the
I"Jn war. LuW Bawlnl. widely
jwn Itnllnn war -,...
'i-ihe Corrlere ' "
"'" . - .ti iin nn null Ihe
Vis we nenreu " - -
Is m lessened Its speed wo saw a small
yT. .. ,.vlry warding tho railroad
Salne-a Pa'r"1 of UhIans Thelr d"
(eiBor was cnim x.... ---
M .neroy'8 country, meir carcircc .
lt5. gave the Impression that they were
I twrtly In a maneuver camp.
I V. m. of cavalry which tho Ger-
inui nd out ahead of their advance aro
?M found everywhere on any highway,
path. " Is their business to aco as
.. .. mn.,lhte. Thoy show themselves
,h.re and they rldo until thoy nro
SSqo k.Plni thla up until they havo
llf."V' .t"' ni onllr. front of tho
Sr I. Mtablljhed by them ,nJ
i thm are kwcu uu
r mem . howover. ono
K ttm mananw to escape to brlns tho
Infortatlon himself (which otherwise Is
Jbffl by officers In their rear making
TOmonwith which tho Uhlans are ra-
celrrf Prm8 ot a tsir esllmn.t8 ,f tho
USth of tho enemy, for they know
tostwially all tho soldiers shoot as soon
Stt cavalry of tho enemy shows Itself.
.: - tTMnn In emnlovcd entire-
lv for reconnalosanco purposes and what
! taown as 'screen1 and contact work.
' 'wreen work' tho Uhlan Is used to
""-.,.., nr orininrv Advances, tak-
jtur a position on the finnk as soon as
iti. v.. fcen necnmnllshed.
SS "In 'contact work' tho Uhlan rideB in
Ml DOOleS UIU11 IIO IIIU union '" "
thi enemy, instead or. rctr4iiiis "
a, in nrHlnnrv reconnaissance
rk he endeavors to trace tho front of
t ' ' . HHinn- nnrallol to It usually
rtllfl CUCMIJ "" " MM.
I until the last man is snor. uown. wc
-lecnUct action has meanwhllo been close-
M "u """ . M .... yl.UM.nn fa-Ant n..!!
otjervea irom mo uaimui "n
r .j i nttn"1r nf thn Infnntrv
BOCs rovemed by the Information gained
lHat the expense of the Uhlan, for whom
'Ithere Is no hope as soon as ho Is de
1 ..i,- .. thin rintv. Imt who. from
xauea ut " "jw ; ....
all accounts, does not seem io mina xnis
part of his work."
RUSSIAN NEWS REPORTS
INCREDIBLE, SAYS DUMBA
Austrian Ambasador Denlos Truth of
Stories Trom Petrograd.
VT!W VOrtK. Sent. ID. Dr. Constantln
BirnDJ, tho Austro-Hunnarlan Ambnssa-
'r, exasperated by rcportB or extensive
ustlan victories In Gallcla and Itusalan
olanfl. has Klven out a' statement char-
ncterlilng the reports as absolutely falsa
and mlaleadlnff, and ueaignea 10 inim-
ence public sentiment nfjalnst Austria.
Ambassador Dumba's stntement reads:
'1 am compelled to protest most era
phitlcally agalnat tho fnlso reports sent
Cownhogen and St. Petersburg about the
Aiiiilan cnmpalun In Husslan Poland
anl Oallcla. To quote some of these re
ports 'purporting to come from official
tosrees:
CALLS STORY INCREDIBLE.
LI," The Austrlnns lolst since the battles
Ltmberg 3a),000 men, dead and
Wounded and 100,000 prisoners.' I have
eia this Incredlblo lie at least twenty
.times In big headlines, repeated even In
e lame paper several times. But we
car that Immediately afterward 'tho
JStrlan Generals. Dankl and Auffen-
srr, who had to retreat from Russian
Poland, succeeded In uniting and rally-
ins lor a new Hag I do not think that
aniMay endowed with a little common
Muecan for nc moment liollevo that nn
armj- of 1,000,000 having Irtst 450,000 men
ehouldl be able Immediately to rally for
a mw fight,
"According to official (?) Petro
PW news, the Austrian.', whllo receding
anJ I hotly pursued to Lembcrg. hart nl
I'm lost about :00,(0 men. (There was
nMIj any one left to tell tho tale.)
TM Heel forts of 'the first cla"ss fortress
n uicnauowsk had been sllonced nnd
,.cu un incremuio nravery Dy tne
'iSJlanS.' In renllt t l,.hn llnn.ol, l n
imill Tlllaen U'lM, fHT l,ilint.ltnn(a -t.1.am
the Austrian troops hnd erected" provl-
""' "rll irencnes. The reports spoke
Ausinan lic-lil guns ami lwx) heavy
jruw captured, (Nobody knows the
wnertaoouts of then, m thlcnl IWrt heuvy
talti) Austan fortrets has been
Then npfiin. "ri. i t.t il.
1, .. " - ll.ll-IWMIie l)L lll
w .nrmy ,n "a'lda was utterly
c! .!er the fall of lmbom.' It
th.T ,no lnnKcr PxlMed, so that
ttt.2 , ita Coan',ks had their choice
Hfa fus,h to Budapest to Join hands
Z?.Ah! 6.e.rl" and the niinnunced on-
"' w "erlln via Breslau."
CMAS NUWS TANTASTIC.
t nrchtOld. tho Almtrlnn irn,.i
Sn.Kh5 . itc" by
l Russ,l.lS"!e. of ""' tho offl.
1 faM.,i "Boiicy punusliea
iruui
15 ot
Pul fantn,M
ffctorr afnTr n . " """ut nn m eged
F w?h ""?"" u. th. num.
Iabr oi eaninr.! ' S W'WU Rn1 ,no
I it i. .' Ptured guns as SOO.
M the oS"18 t0 ro"'l''-o with this
Kowtr. I l """"""Mo of the Bus-
F" one down r in ra n lno nllml,er8
R. Th oo l . Prisoners and ao
J,0M nrussno ' ' . a(lm"tcd that
5'ilUon .Ji""ow WRS 'n u very critical
uon aad .,. ... T. ,:'J crmcni
'8htlnB ' 3cfeat onl" aft"
"It Is
(witftS'",!",hn that Rus-
zyn of o, , "v fi,r.ce"t"B
wr spreading f,i "'uunu jm.
;uuu way i, L1,S6.?:?',orts; but the
' that 1, - "hJUl Jhls Is done best
Ht"Mh, V-.XJ.- sports
TIENNA POPULACE RIOTS,
"ihumnij WAR OFFICE
- vuo war,
IUqm . IlN'nnv o.i ..
."".Wttlwd.1! f.1?. that word ha,
ra.J5kS'lh.Z, Kr-11 y'e.n"tt that
me Aus-
laiMinU.Jr. tho bulldina- of
pirido,, "' ar, breaking oil of the
100,000 MEN LOST
IN BATTLE OF AISNE,
LONDON ESTIMATES
British Casualties Admitted
ly Are Greater Than at
Any Other Conflict 9f
War.
LONDON, Sept. 19.
According to officials nt tho war ofrtco
hero today the combined losses In the
world's greatest battle now raging along
tho River Alsne In Northern iFrnneo total
moro than 1(0,000. Tho British casualties
In this battle admittedly aro greater than
at nny other time during tho war. The
German losses aro terrific.
BERLIN (By way of Amsterdam),
Sept. 19.
Tho German losses In tho war as shown
by tho lists thUB far given out total 45,
t87 In kilted, wounded and missing. They
are listed thus! Killed, 7IS3; wounded,
23,531; missing, 9900.
A list published today, tho twenty
eighth that has bocn Issued, gives the
following: Killed, 1038; wounded, 4033)
missing, 102); total, 0101.
Tho German aviation corps suffered a
great loss In tho death of Lieutenant
Werner von Veaulleu. He was shot on
September 4 whllo scouting over tho en
emy's lines, but managed to guide his
acroplano back to safety. Tho observer
who accompanied htm on tho trip was
unhurt and secured valuable information.
The lieutenant died two days later.
Captain Frcdorlch P. Lannschmldt, of
tho Fourth Foot Guards, was killed In
a battlo with the French near Chnlons
on September 15.
BORDEAUX, Sept, 19.
It was officially stated today that lot
tors found on dead and captured German
oillcers prove conclusively truth of tho
earlier reports of terrible mortality In
the German ranks, especially among tho
afllccrs.
In tho tenth and Imperial Guard corps
there Is said not to havo been a single
high ranking officer who was not cither
killed or wounded.
All of tho companies of the first bat
talion of tho Prussian guard nro now
commanded by volunteer officers of many
year's scrvlco who have taken the places
of those killed. Numerous companies of
German Infantry, which consisted of 250
men, havo been reduced to sixty or
seventy.
MAUBEUGE CAPTURED
BY GERMANS ON SEPT. 7
City Suffered Severely From Bom
bardment of Week.
LONDON, Sept. 19.
The Times correspondent at Boulogne
announces tho fall of Maubeuge In the
folowlng dispatch:
"Maubeuge fell on September 7. Tho
Investment began on August 25. On Au
gust 2C the first shell was fired. On Au
gust 27 the main attack was concentrated
on tho forts to the north and east of the
city.
"Forts do Bou8soIs, des Essnrts and do
Cerfontalne and the enrthworks of Bocq
were destroyed by heavy artillery,
"The town suffored severely from tho
bombardment, which continued with
great violence for 12 days. More than a
thousand shells fell" In one night near the
railway station and the Rue de France
wns partially destroyed. The loss of life,
however, was comparatively slight,
"At 11:50 a clock on tho morning of
September 7 a white flag was holstol on
tho church tower and trumpets sounded
'cense firing,' but tho firing only ceased
at 3 o'clock that tu'tcrnoon. In tho mcan
tlmo the greater part ot tho garrison suc
ceeded In leaving tho town. The German
forces marched In at 7 o'clock that evening."
SCULPTOR OF MARTIAL
HEROES KILLED IN WAR
Frledrich Pfnnnschmldt, One of Most
Fnmoua European Artists.
NEW YOP.K, Sept. 19. Tho death In
battle of Frledrich rfnnnschmldt, as an
nounced In today's dlbpatches from Ber
lin, removed from the body of Kuropenn
sculptors one of Its most famous mem
bers. I'fnnnschmldt, who wns a member of
the Smate of the German Itnyal Academy
of Arts, and president of the ABfeoclatlon
of German Sculptors, was born In Berlin
in 1K4, Among his famous works were
statues of Field Marshall Von Moltke,
General Von Der Tnnn Bathsamhautoen
and Taul Gerhard t. For his skill In these
works he was decorated with the Ludwlg
CrosVi of the First Class and made a
member of tho Bavnrian Michael Order
nnd the Order of Merit for Arts and
Sciences.
SHnflnn..
Th """' ail ot the
W '1lcatC ctTnca on Thursday, and
GERMANS SEEK NEW WEAPON
TO SHATTER BRITISH NAVY
French Wnr Office Beports Experi
ments With Aerial Torpedo,
BOnnKAUX, Sept. .
Word has rea-lied the War Office that
the Germans aro experimenting with a
now weapon with which they hope to shat
ter the British navy. This weapon takes
tho form of an aerial torpedo.
At Berne, Hwltzcrland, a telegram says
that every night a hugo Zeppelin hovers
nver I-ake Constance ot a height ot 1000
feet, carrying on experiments.
Wicker work torpedo cases aro lowered
Into the water attached to ropes. The
explosion which follows Is terrific.
Tho Germans evidently hope to lino the
North Sea coast ttlth these engines and
perhaps to shell the British fleet with
them.
BODIES POISON PARIS WATER
Corpses Heaped Along the Mavne
Contaminate Capital's Supply,
PAWS. Sept. 19.
Parisians havo been warned that be
cause of the battles on the banks of tho
Marne nhlch Is the largest tributary of
the Seine, the water of the river hero
must not bo used for drinking purposes
without being boiled.
Philip Jlader, an American volunteer
aviator, who has just returned from the
valley of the Meuse, says that corpses
He heaped up on the banks of the river.
rnnnnsn
. ' I
A VICTORY AT HOME
WAR DRAMA'S SHIFTING SCENES
FROM GREAT THEATRE OF STRIFE
The namo of Mmo. Adrlenno Buhot,
head of the Dames du Sacro Coeur, ap
pears In a long list of names of those
killed an a battlefield.
She was struck by a bullet from a
German machlno gun ns sho was rais
ing the head of a wounded soldier.
A ragged group of eight arrived at
London on a ship from Boulogne, plainly
showing thoy had endured hardships In
tho battles In France. They woro the
garb of French peasants. Ono had a
corduroy Jacket, trousers much too short
for him and bathing shoes. Unwashed,
nnd with two or three days' growth of
beard, they walked out of tho Harbour
Station.
As they passed talking I caught a
broad Irish brogue and a response In an
equally pronounced Scotch dialect.
"Who nro you?" I Inquired.
"British soldiers, guv'nor!" wns tho
reply. "Lost our regiments, borrowed
these 'ero togs, camo through the Ger
mnn lines, leached Boulogne at last nnd
now we nre going to Shorncllffo to re
port. Then wo nre going back again."
How two British soldiers, a captain
and a corporal of tho Dragoon Guards,
escaped from a convent hospital, where
they woro held prisoners by tho Germans
after being seriously wounded, was told
by ono of them when they arrived at
Folkstone from Ostend.
They had crossed 50 miles of country
occupied by the enemy and got safely
by their outposts. The corporal told the
story quite cnsunlly, ns If It wero an
ordlnnry adventure.
"With the rest of the wounded I was
taken to n convent Inside the German
lines. I found my own captain there. A
shrapnel shell had exploded In front ot
him and the fumes had sent him off,
nnd he had a slight wound on tho fore
head. "They left tho convent unguarded, be
ing confident. I suppose, that wo could
not escape through their lines. We had
been thero n day or two when wo saw
thorn bending up a guard.
" 'This 13 tho time to escape, nnd wh
nro going to, said the captain.
"Wo got nut without difficulty, and
lay for ten hours In ambush behind n
hedge. Then we set out to get through
tho lines, Tho captain had a map of
tho country nnd a damaged pair of com
passes, which wo iiatrhcrt up with dough.
The map enabled him to know exuetly
whero we were,
"We lay low all day and traveled by
night, covering 27 miles of ground each
night by crawling almost flat and run
ning bent almost double when wo found
cover. Wo had no sleep for 4S hours,
"Onco wo attempted to snlm, but found
out clothes too heavy to carry, so wo
made for a bridge. It was guarded by
25 Germans. Wo came nearer and looked
up very carefully. Tho sentry on our
side of the bridge was asleep. We crept
past him and over the bridge. The whole
guard was asleep. The secoi.d time wo
crossed the canal was by a pontoon which
they had left unguarded.
"Onco wo got clear of their lines we
had no further difficulty. The Belgians
assisted us all they could to get to
Ostend."
Former Senator Chauncey M Dcpew's
side whiskers, long a familiar adorn
ment, served as his passport on his rail
way trip from the Swiss border to
Parl3. Frenchmen thought nono but a
Briton could wear whiskers like Mr.
Dcpew's nnd passengers cried "Vive
Knteute Cordlale'" when they noticed
tho American. Mr. Depew arrived In
New York yesterday op the White Star
liner Baltic and said he heard the .'falser
had boasted he would hang bis hat on
tho Eiffel Tower on tho anniversary of
Sedan. "He rtr3"nrs f iavv b'en mis
taken In tho date," added the former
Senator.
Last week a proposal was publicly
made In London by Mrs. Edward Lyt
tlcton that there should be a general
token of mourning for those who In tho
glorious exploits of British arms In
France and Belgium have died for their
King and country. This proposal was
to tho effect that those families who
loso loved ones In tho war should .wear
a purplo armlet bearing in gilt letters
some general phrase, such as "For King
and Country."
Tho Duchess of Devonshire, Lady
Lansdowna and other ladles have an
nounced that for thoso of their relatives
who die nt tho front they "will not show
their sorrow ns for thoBe who come to a
less glorious end." Their outward slgni
of mourning will bo restricted to the
wearing of a plain white band on tho
sleeve.
The suggestion of this unpretentious
mark of mourning, whether the band be
white or purple, Is generally approved.
Some distinctive token of the kind. If
made uniform for high and low alike.
Is worthy of adoption. Its simplicity
will be ever so much moro expresslvo
of tho nation's grief and fortitude In
adversity than the wearlns of sombro
black mourning attire.
One brave French mother has learned
that her thrpe sons were war victims, one
dead, Another inlsMug and the third
wounded. She guessed from the demennnr
ot the priest who called that one had
been killed, nnd repeated Mme. Castel
nan's famous question, "Which?" The
mother's name was Mme. Paint, nnd her
three sons had left school to light along
the frontier.
A London soldier, who wni In the
general engagement nround Mons, says
the Germans screened the advance by
holding French women nnd ohlldren In
front of them. The Gormnns did not
drive tho defenceless non-combatants be
fore the column, but cnrrled them. "Ot
course," the English sohllrr added, "our
gunners could do nothing. It was worse
than any savage warfnro I ever had
Imagined." Another man, hack from
Fr.uice, recounted nn Incident of the Ger
man occupation of a village. He says
the victors threw a French soldier, whom
they hnd captured, on some embers and
burned him alive.
Describing the recent Visit of Emperor
William with Prlnco Oscar near Iongwy.
tho Hottrrdam correspondent of tho Lon
don Dally Telegraph says tho Kaiser In
spected the machine guns there and then
said to a gunner:
"You havo fired many rounds. How
many hit?"
"About 100 per cent.," the gunner
replied.
It Is reported that slnco tho beginning
of the war tho Holland-American steam
ship line has had scarcely enough ships
to convey to the United States all the
Amerlrnns stranded In Holland. There
aro now mountains of luggage on the
Wllhelmlna wharves awaiting transporta
tion to Amf rlc. In order to cope with
tho gigantic demand the company has
chartered several ships from other coun
tries. German newspapers have received this
telegram today from Crown Prince Fred
erick William:
"Please collect and forward as early
as possible woolen underwear and socks
for my soldiers. Greetings.
"WILHELM, Crown Prince."
The Crown Prlnco n few d:ia ago tele
graphed to a Berlin newspaper ii similar
request ui relic t tbhacvo and tlgara for
t! - "Mara os M-, uriKj ,
ALSACE SUFFERS
REIGN OF TERROR,
IS BASEL REPORT
Prussia's Iron Hand Felt by
Natives, Though Proved
Innocent of Wrongdoing,
Correspondent Charges.
By JOHN CAMERON
BASEL, Switzerland. Sept. 19.
News from Alsace filters slowly
through, whatever tho turn of events.
Tho impression here la that this stricken
provlnre, the population of which has
suffered In full the miseries of war, there
has been no fighting of moment, although
the sound of artillery duels near Mul
hnusen for tho last week has been easily
heard In Basel.
It appears now clear that nfter a
brilliant action on Scptembor 3 tho
French did not enter tho town of Muel
bauscn, but contented themselves by oc
cupying strategical positions In the
vicinity.
Tho retirement of tho French after
their Initial occupation of Muelhausen at
the opening of the war was followed
by a reign of terror which constitutes
ono of the blackest chapters of tho war. I
Always suspicious of the nttltudo of tho
people of thn conquered provinces, tho '
Germans needed only Hit excuse to wreaU
rngnnce and terrorize the population.
Scores of the wealthiest citizens of
Upper Alsace have either been put In
prison or have suffered grave punishment.
Harboring of French soldiers Is consider
ed sufllclent Justification for bloody re
prisals, the strnngo theory of tho Ger
mans being apparently that the man
whoso houso ll Invnded by troops, who
lire from tho window i-, Is ii-.spuullili- for
their acts. It may he true that some ,
wero consenting parties, but many wero
helpless, I
An Inquiry Instituted nt Burzweller, I
near .Muelhausen. whero tho village was
burned, showed that tv Inhabitants were .
executed on a charge of hnrborlng
Franctlreurs, although that there were i
nono of them with the French nrmy has
bean proved Tho Inquiry failed utterly
t establish the charges nnd proved em
phatically the Innocence of tho victims.
All tVln .vntt.lil J l.l,V. ll'lilll, tl.n !n....n
.... 1.1.1 ,..!, .,,,7 ...It, ...! 1..U 11,11(111, .
soldiers afterwards were Inflicted from tho I
houses wero certified by tho doctors to
havo hen caused by projectiles used only
by the uerman army.
It Is now understood that the alarm and
the subsequent fusillade by which Gor
man soldiers were kilted by German fire
was caused by Uhlans shooting n
wounded charger behind a brick kiln on
the outsklits of tho town.
Tho priest of a vlllago not far from
tho Ithlne told me the following Instance:
A shot was heard one night In his vil
lage. It was fired from the Inn. Troops
surrounded the building and riddled It
with bullets. Finally, they took It by as
sault, when Its garrison was found to
consist of two Haailan soIdlTs who,
punlc-strlckcn nt the sound of a shot
tired In tho night, fired their rifles. Imag
ining themselves besieged by the French. I
They were dragged from the room In I
which they wero hiding nnd even their
own circumstantial story failed to sat- ,
Isfy the officers, who proceeded to 6hoot
nil mate Inmates of the Inn. The cause '
of the panic wns discovered In a soldier
sleeping In n neighboring loft, who had
accidentally tired his rllle.
These are a few Instances of incidents
of dally occurrence which have caused a
deep Impression on tho people of tho i
city of Basel If, In 13 years of pea e. '
the Hermans have fulled to win the af
fection of tho Alsatians, the last fen
weeks nvust hae had the ctTeit of ie-ii-
ivlix; f-utlier Mian -v-i tlw i .-sibilitui
t i.tr lining so, '
SACK OF LOUVAIN
LIKE TRIP IN HELL,
EYEWITNESS SAYS
Citizens Shot Dead Like
Rabbits and the Torch of
the Firebug Invader in
Every Direction, Is Story.
KOTTEIIDAM, Sept. 19.
Stories of the sacking of Louvaln, which
nre almost unbcllovnblo In their horror,
reached here from the frontier.
One of the most vivid Is that of nn an-'
slstant In a bicycle shop, who, though a
Dutchman, wns given special facilities for
escape owing to his being mistaken for a
German. "At midday Inst Tuesday," he
begins, "a fearful uproar broke out In
the streets whllo we wero nt dinner, nnd
the crackle of musketry wns soon follow
ed by the roar of nrtlllery near at hand.
"Hearing shrieks from the Inhabitants
of our streets, I rushed to the window nnd
saw that sovcral houses were already In
flames. Soldiers were smashing tho shop
windows and looting In nil directions. As
tho people rushed Into tho streets from
tho burning houses thoy were shot down
like rabbits. With my governor, his wife
nnd little boy, we fled to tho cellar,
where I and the boy hid under a pllo of
tires, whllo tho manager hid under n
cheat nnd his wlfo got Into a drain, where
sho stood with water up to her waist for
many hours.
NIGHT MADE HIDEOUS.
"Night fell and tho sound of shooting
In the streets became brisker. I crept
out of my hiding-place to get some water,
and peeping out of my window saw to
my horror that almost tho whole street
was In ruins. Then we found that our
own house was alight, and It was neces
sary to choose between bolting and being
burned to death where we wero, I decided
to make n dash for It, but the moment I
wns outside the door three Germans held
me up with revolvers nnd naked me where
I wns going. My reply was that I was
a Germnn, that my mnstcr and his wlfo
were Germans who had been trapped In
the burning house.
"Apparently my German wns good
enough to mnke them believe my state
ment, for they promised to glvo us safe
conduct out of tho town. Our walk
through tho streets to the railway sta
tion I shall always remember ns a v;alk
through hell. The beautiful town, with
Its noble buildings, was a sea of flame.
Dead bodies lay thick In the streets.
Dreadful cries camo from mnny of the
houses.
"It wns 6:30 on Wednesday morning
when we reached the railway station.
Soldiers were oven thpn still going about
the streets with lighted brandi and ex
plosives In their hnnds setting n light to
nny buildings that still remained Intact.
In the parks they had already begun to
bury the dead, but In many cases so shal
low wore the graves that a large part ot
each body was still visible.
A HARROWING SPECTACLE.
"At the railway station wo witnessed
a truly harrowing spectacle. Fifty citi
zens, both men nnd women, had been
brought from the houses from which tho
soldiers swore that shots had been fired.
They were lined up In the street, pro
testing with tears In their eyes that
they wero Innocent. Then came a firing
squad. Volley followed volley, and the
0 fell dend where they stood."
This story Is corroborated by an Inde
pendent dispatch from a Dutch Journalist
who happened to be at Louvaln on his
way to Brussels.
He said he was standing on Tuesday
evening near the rallwnv stntin,, n t,.
valn. talking to o. German officer, whenl
no was strongly advised to leave the
spot owing to the great danger.
A group of some 500 men and women,
described as hostages, were ranked In
tho open spaco by the station, nnd they
were Informed that for every soldier
fired on In tho town ten nt iir.,n -,,i.i
bo shot. The wretched people sobbed
...... .. mi,,, men 11,111113 ano ion on their
knees, but they might ns well have ap
pealed to men of stono. Ten by ton, ns
tho night woro on. they were brought
from tho ranks and slaughtered before
the eyes of those who remained.
POINCARE DECORATES GENERAL
BORDEAUX, Sept. 19. President
Polncaro raised General do Castelnau to
day to tho rank of grand otllcer of tho
Legion of Honor. The honor wns be
stowed on the recommendation of Gen
eral Joffre, commander-in-chief of the
French armies In tho field.
CLEMENCEAD RAILS
AT HOSPITAL CARE
OF GERMAN WOUNDED
Bitter in Criticism of What
He Calls "Quixotic" Atti
tude of Attendants, While
French Soldiers' Bleed on
Battlefields.
BORDEAUX, Sept 19.-Oeorge3 Clemen
ceau's patriotism finds vent In an Iron
ical criticism in his paper L'Hommo
Libre ot the alleged quixotic attitude of
the hospital authorities toward the Ger
man wounded In large numbers, espe
cially toward their hospital assistants
who nre allowed to accompany them. M.
Clcmenccau says!
"When I hear the question discussed
as to whether or not beds should be re
served for tho Germnn nurses, while
our own are half dead from fatigue and
llo on matting In corridors, I confess
that I refrain from Interfering with great
dlfllculty. The whole thing beats my
comprehension.
"Tho Germnn wounded nppear to bo
free of any great suffering Judging from
their appearance In front of bowls of
steaming soup, stuffing their fill, Under
tho survclllarce of a bespectacled mnjor,
talking and joking In their hoarso gut
turals, which make our men squirm as
they He silently under blankets, and at
this moment I say to myself:
" 'How many of their comrades nr
finishing our wounded on bnttlonclds?'
Thero should bo a limit to such stu
pidity. "In the hospital under notice I saw yes
terday a smiling young miss offer cigars
and chocolate to wounded Germans. By
all mr-ans let us respect and attend to an
enemy who has been wounded by our men
whfn they wero endeavoring to encom
pass our ruin. This Is well and good. But
when one of our men seeing these dainties
paps him asks sadly: Then, Is nil for
these gentlemen? Is there nothing for
us?" It does not seem right. The French
soldier added: 'It Is a little hard to glvo
one's life on the battlefield and then so
those rewarded who tried to take it.'
"I Invite the Government to reflect on
these words of a French soldier.
"To crown all. I learn that tho be
ppectacled major heretofore mentioned Is
nl'owed to leave the city In civil cos
tume. Comment on this Is needless."
BRUSSELS FEARS FATE
SUFFERED BY LOUVAIN
Schoolhouses Filled With Stratr
to Awlt Torch, Belgians Say.
LONDON, Sept. 13.
A courier who arrived from Brussels
with dispatches rays th,c Belgians expect
to see Brussels treated n3 Louvaln wa
before the Germans ovacunte the city.
He says all the Important public build
ings, Including the Paints de Justice and
the largest and most Imposing private
residences, already have been mined by
tho Germans as though to blow them up,
while schoolhouses nnd many other build
ings are tilled with straw ready for th
torch.
The courier also declares that the Ger
mans have mined nil roads leading Into
Brussels, hut that the Belgians think
they Intend to make their principal stand
on tho Namur-Llege line, as the forts nnd
other defenses nre helng reconstructed
and the work Is going on night and iHy.
The Germans also have been preparing
for a strong defense on the Valenciennes
line. According to the courier tho Ger
mans now seem to be using Luxemburg1
for their principal line of communication
for their armies In France.
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