EVEffQ-G XEDOB PHILADELPHIA, MOX'DAtf BBPEJBMBBB 21, 19U,
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BATTLE OF TRENCHES RAGES WITH THUNDER OF ARTILLERY NIGHT AND DAB
lied forces holding the position being
driven oft with heavy slaughter. The
attacks made by the French In the
centre of the Vosgcs Mountains, In
the neighborhood of Donon, Sonone3
nnd Saales, were repulsed,"
GERMAN'S RIGHT RETREATS,
IS LONDON ANNOUNCEMENT
LONDON, Sept. 21.
The German right Is retiring.
Whether it Is dropping back to escape
being enveloped by the Franco-Uritlsh
troops or Is moving to affect a Junc
ture with the 100,000 reinforcements
said to have been sent to Cteneritl von
Kluk's aid from Maubeupe Is stilt un
certain, although military observers
are Inclined to believe the movement
Is a real rctre.it before superior inim
bers
The steady advance of the British
and French has exposed General von
Kluk's rtsht, and he has swung his
army still further around to the east
of N6yon. A dispatch to a news
agency hero yesterday from Solssons
declared that he and his army had
been surrounded, but this is spupo.ed
to have been merely a repetition of
the reports earlier in the week, which
were based on the success of the Al
lies in encircling his right.
A general retirement by the Germans
from the positions they have held for
the last eight and one-half days is be
lieved here from the furious renewal of
gflhtlng in the last three days. This
concerted offensive movement, of which
the bombardment of Rholms Is a part.
In three distinct points. Is believed to
be merely to cover a retreat which may
ctxnd to the German border and even
to the line of defensive works along
the Rhine
A military ottUrr. hi has Just re
turned to London from the front,
Btates that British aviators report a
large number of transport wagons, ap
parently motor vehicles, carrying mu
nitions of war, nnd canon have been
moving from tho German tear toward
their frontier.
Added welhgt Is given the theory bj
tho dispatches from Home jesterdav
to the effect that orders have been is
sued by the Berlin War oflbe for an
abandonment of French territory, with
200,000 troops to cover the retirement
tty a vigorous defense of the present
Intrenched lines.
The Germans are handicapped hy the
fact that they must protect Laon and
Ternluer at all costs, as those am the
only railroad corniest connecting their
forces at the front with Lorraine and
with southern Belgium. The Impor
tance of Uhclms from a strategical
point of view lies in the fact that it
controls eight Important railroad lines
Latest accounts say that the Allies'
lines are Intact but that all advances
are retarded by the rains, which h.-ne
lllled trenches and made roads so heavy
that only light artillery can be trans
ported except with the greatest dlffl. I
cult
Along the Allies' centre and right
both sides have won temporary suc
cesses bt these have always been coun
terbaliced by small defeats
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GUNS TRANSFORM
BEAUTIFUL VALLEY
INTO AN INFERNO
Aisnc River Losses Colossal,
Says Correspondent Who
Followed Armies From the
Marne.
JEWISH SOLDIERS HOLDING NEW YEAR'S SERVICES ON THE BATTLEFIELD
Nearly half a million Jewish soldiers, the largest number under arms since the children of Israel ceased to be a
nation, laid aside their weapons of war today to observe Rosh Hashana, or the New Year's Day. The above
picture shows Day of Atonement services held by the Jewish soldiers in the German army during the Franco
Prussian War, and presents a scene that is being enacted in the rival armies of Europe today.
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BATTLE IN TRENCHES MONTENEGRINS TARE
RAGES AS ARTILLERY STRONG POST IN RUSH
THUNDERS ON AlSNE . ON BOSNIAN CAPITAL
CHANCES OF "PORK" JEWS WORSHIPPING
BILL WEAKENED BY AMID DIN OF BATTLE
JAPAN'S "SANITARY
SOLDIERS" TAUGHT
WAR TAX PROJECT IN WAR-TORN EUROPE ARMIES NEW LESSON
Allies Fight Waist Deep in Rogbitza, Thirty Miles From
Water Night and Day Be-! Sarajevo, Seized and Vic-
fore Terrific Fire of Ger
mans' Heavy Guns.
PARIS, Sept. 21 Reports from the
front show that tho French-British
troo; are fighting waist deep in water,
' heavy rains having flooded the trenches.
The fury of battle has slackened on
that account
Tho Germans" intrenehtr.ents were con
tnictej ten days before the beginning
of the battle The French trenches were
made In ranse of a large number of the
enemj's pruns, which frequently and
simultaneously opened ftre on them with
tremendous erfect.
LONDON.
tors Advance Within Ten
Miles of Stronghold.
CETTINJE. Sept. 21 The Montenegrin
arm- has occupied the town of Rogbitza,
Bosnia, in force and is now within ten i gPnator
milei of SaraJeo, the capital of the
Auitrian province. This was officially
President Wilson's Appeal Franco-Prussian War Scene ; Efficient Methods Reverse
for $100,000,000 Addi
tional Revenue a Stumbling
Block for Advocates of
Pending Measure.
KASHINGToN, D C , Pept 21 Demo
crats of the Senate who today renewed
their light fur the passage of the ltlvers
and Harbor nppropilatlon measure are
beginning to Unci President Wilson's ap
peal foi the pasKise of the emergency
revenue bill to provide 510(.W.O"0 addi
tional ,revenu for the .trreasury the
strongest argument against the so-called
"pork bariel measure. Some of the ma
jority leaders aie endeavoring to convince
Simmons. Chairman of the Fin
ance Committee, who Is the leading ad
vocate of the 1 livers and Harbois Hill,
Of the fftllv ff Lnenlnr- nn fh. Ilr-Hf ncnftiat
announced by the War Office today, and th compromise suggested by the Hepub
the capture of Sarajevo is now confidently ' llcans of appropunting a lump sum not
expected. I t0 "''ceed IM.fl-i'OO
Hosbitza is an Important town on the .J?01"'' 2!"?.n-J ?$" j"1"- f .
,.,.., ' . ... lowa, and Norrls, of Nebraska, refresh-
railroad leading to Sarajevo. It is 30 ed by a good rtst over Sundav. resumed
tnelr attack of the "pork bariel ' legisla-
miles east uf the capital. After occupying
the city the Montenegrin army then art
vancwd 20 miles along th railroad to
ward riaraJeo
correspondent .in
Sept 21 The Standard's
Paris, writing oC the
Aisnc battle. saa that though it has
now lasted for a week, with about 2,
000.000 fighting on a line HO miles long
It is still Impossible to sav that any de
cided result ha3 been achieved by either
Blue But the balance 'of gatna and
losses on Saturday, he sas, seemed to
be ilightu in favor of the Allies, whij
have advanced further on their left with
out giving any ground in the centre or
on the right
The Germans, says this correspondent,
have certainlv suffered more severely in
both men and captured moterlsl than th
Allies, and on the w hol- the immediate
outlook appeared to be satisfactory
from the Franco-British point of view
The Germans, he sav. have a numbr , I-(V.it,i,,,rti marks were offered
Prnhnnlv Rp-nnnrfnr ac I
Hebrews in Rival Armies
Observe Religious Holiday
An Incident of the Franco-Prussian War
that has become famous through copies
of a picture which adorns the walls of
hundreds of Jewish homes In this city Is
probably being re-enacted today on the
battlefields of Uuropo. This picture por
trays the Jewish soldiers of the German
ansy holding religious services before
Metz, in 170, whl'e tho Prussians were
advancing on Par;?. I
Almost a half million soldiers engaged I
In the gigantic European military strug
glo will lay aside their weapons of war
today to observe Itosh Hashana, or the
New Year's Day, the first of the great
autumn holidays. . ,.
The picture of the Day of Atonement
services in tho Franco-Prussian War lias
been to widely clrcuated that it is famil
iar to every Jew It shows the Jewish
soldiers gathered around a huge altar.
saying the pioers prescribed for the oc
World's Previous War
Mortality of 4
ease to 1 From Bullets
From Dis-
NCW YORK. Sept. 21.-Whlle laymen
have given their attention to casualties
from bullets, medical and sanitary ex
perts have been weighing the piobablo
losses from u still more destructive force,
dlseahe, because it is well established
that rarely has there been a conflict of
any duration In which at least four men
have lint icrlshed fiom disease to every
one from bulletb.
In modern times It was left foi Japan
to demonstrate that an army sanitation
system could be made efficient, and many
of her methods have been
the armies now battling.
LONDON, Sept. 21.
German troops are dying to the music of
their regimental bands In the valley of
death nlong the Alsno by day nnd by
iiIkIiI. Their losses arc colossal, says" an
Kngllsh correspondent, who sends his
I story from La Kcrte-Mllon,' south of
, Solssons. He says:
'From the battlefield of Marno 1 worked
my way north waid through Chnntllly nnd
Senlls to Crepy-en-Valols to this valley
of death. I came by night through lands
wasted by the feet of tens of thousands
of armed men and by Innumerable wheels
of the world's greatest armies.
"I have seen on this road sights that
convince me that the retreat was not only
swift, but precipitate to a point of actual
panic. It- was Alsne or destruction. It Is
necessary to realize that Just as the allied
army, on Its way from Mons to Paris,
was In danger of tho German Hanking
movement which threatened to overwhelm
It, so was Gcnoral von Kluk's right
flnnk In Its retreat from Paris to Alsno
In extreme danger. To nvold annihilation,
he fld a position of tremendous strength
toward the west. It was absolutely
essential to his safety to gain tho position
of Alsne.
"One miifit not lose sight of the supreme
fact that of the present situation Just
as the junrtlon of the Ourcq and Mnrne
nt Menux made that town the key of
encounter last week, so the Junction of
the Olsc and the ATSne at Complegne has
endowed the latter with cardinal Import
ance. Once across the Alsne, the German
army had the rtlver Olse on Its right, nnd,
for the moment, the dnnger of being out
flanked was averted.
"This was the position on Sunday. Sep
tember 13. the first day of the great
frontnl battle.
"The valley of the river became an In
ferno. From height to height the great
guns belched forth their fire in terrific
fashion. Huge shells went shrieking
across the river and the river meadows
The army poured o withering fire upon
the allied troops and engineers that were
engaged In building pontoon bridges. The
pontoons are carried on wagons espe
cially constructed for their transportation.
It Is necessary to bring these pontoons
to the water's edge, launch them and then
lash them together.
ALLIES BriGIN ADVANCE.
"The whole operation of building tho
pontoon bridges was carried on while a
hell of fire rained down on the men, rifles,
mitrailleuses and the heavier guns con
tributing At one time the enemy's file
had grown so deadly and had worked
such destruction among the forces en
gaged in building the pontoon bridges that
the work had to be suspended tempor-
THREE GERMAN CORPS
IN ADVANCE AGAINST '
'POLISH STRONGHOLD!
Grodno Objective of Hin-
denburg's New Movement
to Clear Way to Warsaw. I
Defeated Russian Armies
Unite.
BERLIN, Sept. 2l.
Three German army corps (120,000 men) ?
are marching on the Russian strongh&ld l
of Grodno, after capturing the towns ot '
Augustowo, Szozuezyn and Grajovo, says 1
an official announcement Issued here to. J
day. 1
(Grodno Is an Important ralfway centra V
on the River Nlcman. It Is on the maln1
line between Petrograd and Warsaw. Tha'rf
flty Is strongly fortified and Is tho cap- j
llal of the Government of Grodno. The 4
three captured towns are along tho fron-3
tier of Russian Poland.) , . T
, The statement continues! 1
The campaign of the eastern armyVj
continues successfully. Part of the 'C
Grodno army defeated by General -j
Inndenburg has Joined the fragments -i
of tho Vllna army, and the two have n-
fallen back on Grodno. The cam-
palgn against Osowlec (o nthe Blebrs
River) bIbo continues successfully. i
General Ste'nmotz and Count Rantzau,''
whose names aro Included in the latest '
list of dead, nre. said to have been killed
In the eastern campaign.
L'nless concessions
toilaj ! battle
ot Florida, In
of Idaho,
Join in iht filibuster,
, nie made.
GERMAN WAR LOAN RESULTS uSV'SorM.
IN BILLION-DOLLAR FUND i!& , Z, :"Tu a aum., to
I the effect that the opponents of the bill
Home Subscription!! Preclude Need of I propu-ed to flsriit to the limit. Tn plans
... . , , for a "'oinrioml-p have been sUSKit-d bj
Aid From Foreign Financiers. j the or,pttn-my of the bin Should neither
BERLIN -pt 21 (b wireless by way j be a'ep-ed. senator Burton -aid, 'it is
of Satville L. I ). intended to discuss the bill tlioinugnl
tlon today with a display of coiiildnee.
They wtre reinforced by Senium Uorah. , caslon. Man) of them are wearing over
" UV .1U!.-'I1 iiuiu l!i' Nt'Sl, lO
een employed by I ar'U; ,, ,,, , , . , . .
, . , I "Finally the allied army, foot by foot,
, Simple methods i,., , ,i,.,. inn.9rH tho river hnnli.
of precaution with results that astonished Thanks to the presence of the small un
the nimtiiiy lopiu-eniuthes ot American , hroken bridge, the English troops were
nnd European nations sent to make ob- I j,e , effect a crossni- of the rver
sorvatlons of the Russo-.Iapanese "War. , romnarotivelv earlv. while the French.
,mong these inedico-mllltaty ejports I .hn....n rM, hraverv. began crossing
the river In single file by using the steel
girder. In the meantime, the engineers
renewed their ' fnsk of pontoon bridge
of their heavv howitzer guns placed In
advantageous, positions from whi-h fiey
can shell the a!. led lines, at a dis'ince of
from seven to eight mi'-i. No big guns
the Allies have can shoot effective at
such a ranse consequently It i3 impossl
ble to replv to this fire until the Grmana
approach within range of the British or
French artil'erv.
Those howitzers have inrtlcetd great
damage to th Al'tes, jut tn neld guns,
of the latter have proved, he savs. far
superior to thcic suns of th Germans
Much of the flehtine has taken place
at night the Germans making m.nv
fierce attacks under cover of darkress,
but thev hive not a'hleved any great
euccess In any of these attaka. and in
s&mfr of them the consei'jen'ea to taa
German troops inoied ha' r bee.- d'-a,-trous
Trie frontal attark made b1 tie
British and F-fnch in replv tin's bn
marked by srett roni-,e and jallant-v,
though undertaker under moat difficult
conditions.
EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA
AGAIN REPORTED DEAD
Jfews Said to Have Seen Suppressed
to Prevent Hevolutjoa.
LONDON, S.pt a. '
The report tnat Emperor Francis iitapb, '
of Austria is dad. was revived toJv in
a dispaich to the Cbrorucla from Geneva
The dispatch quotes 4 htga omcul r
turning to Lausanne from Vienna at .tat.
Ing that the Rmpror dl4 n weeH ao,
but the news 'M upprcsse) to avoid a '
revolution.
ROME. Sept SI A dUpatch trots
Vicnni savj that th Emperor Frapela
Joseph visited the hospital m tha An
guraten Pa'ace vasterla aad spoHe to
a hundred wounded officers thsra. t
Brilliant success has been met in the i
raifcing of a war loan by subscriptions
to IniDerlal bonds and treaur tertlfi- ,
catfs. i p to th6 present time .2Su,nKi.nif,
marks il.Wiiin,OfiOi has been raised.
With a number of reports still out. the
total .-uli'orlpiions to the imperial lonn
hae already reached 2 0lo,onrt,v marks.
Tre,Tiii certificates to the amount of
and this
2i,nw,oriu
oversubscribed by
h.is hen
marlis
The newspapers express, elation that
tMs re-lit should bo reached without for
eien bubs'-rlptlons or th" sending f
blanks to minv well-to-do Ueiman now
in tiir field on account of the niex
perted suf-ceks the final termsi of pay
ment have been postponed until December.
item by item, and if possible defeat the
measure as it now stands."
Simmon.--- isits pri:?im:nt.
si-mt:or Simmons called at the White
House tudav.
H raid later "1 feel that I am at
ll'oert to sov thi' The Pies.dent has
not given out any statement that he was
In favor of Settling this matter b a
lump sum appmprlrtton. a repoitid ut-ur-Iav,
ai.d ie haa not given out anv in-
t matlon he as "nfllenlv to ti
bill
their uniforms the tallth, a shawl used
in the sjnagosuo by all orthodox Jews.
In the background aie shown cannon,
Fending forth their missiles of destruc
tion into the mnks of the enemy. Over
the picture Is the Inscription, In German.
"Have wo not all one Father? Wero we
not all created by tho samo God?"
Today, arphl the roar and the rumble
of cannon, perhaps while shot and shell
nre whistling through the air, tho high
holiday, sacred to every one of the He
brew fnlth, will be observed. The posi
tion of tho armies, with their battle lines
stretched over many mllos, will make It
Impossible to hold one big lellgious cei
emony, hut doubtless there will ,e ?coien
of small services held nlong the fighting
lines.
It Is expected, In lew of the concilia
tory attitude taken by the Russian Gov
ernment toward the Jews since the out
break of the war, that pei mission will be
The confeiente of the Senator with thj ' granted the?" men to rest for a brief
President it is believed, wan not alto- J"" ""' '" "' """"i"" "' r .
cither harmonious worship Hod according to the dlrtates of
The President has gone on reeord as their religion The Russian mi.uaiy a..-
ulshlnir .h amount the measure . arri-s muriuua !" a1.i.i.-vioie .u u.e u.jai
cut to between $U.0&W and $H."OO,0i)i).
It nribrlnrillv utfA-trd of i''ii(i'i
of New lork city, who Us sur- i bulldlnp, and columns of troops crossed
major of the Hist Regiment. I . ,. thp r,ver Bv nKhlf the crossing of
iglneers. In Porto Rico and Cuba, thp river h3tl bp1 pfffcted. and the
EXPLORERS AND AUTHORS
TO WRITE WAR ACCOUNTS
Kaiser Authorises Sven Hedin to
Make Observations at Front.
BERLIN. ,.t .1
i 'fficial arnjuncement was mad- today
trat ?veij Hedin. 'he Swedish explorer,
was a gut of tha Emperor at haiquar
ters und would be allowed to vsit the
eastern and witrn fronts to give a nor
I irii.-an account of tho situation
T.ie foUowinff announeemettts were also
made
Vienna, deni tho report that Hn
r k stt-nktewK. the acinar, is a pru
jnr ot war. He Is en toute to tha
T rol and i prapannp to write a book
concerning h.s war experiences.
Tha friwn Council at Bucharest, on
Saturday, dcidd to continue the
strictest neutrality
Tha N"' u Vrema ileadlna papr
of I'n.-oti.'adi reports that those who
dmi'MhPd the German Embassy at
Perojrad are arrealod, but were
riltased oeesuse the destruction was
prompted, by "noble, patriotic fed
ine '
Kndjf Nnsn, at Christiana, empha
eiz4. amid a ror of applause, that Nor
way must ' arrange the closest mllltaiy
unwn with Swedsn to eafegU'ird their
common independence "
FIFTEEN LOST ON AE-1
JieTHOPS UjrDBR 5QRUTINY
Comptroller Investigating Cora
Admiralty Abandons Hope of Locat. pwJnts of Needy Borrowers,
ing Australian Stibmarine.
MELBOURNE Sept Jl.
The Admlralt announced today that it
had abandoned all hope of locating the
submarine AE-1 because of the depth of
the water in whu.lt it tank
Ftfteen men were Jost.
John Bobinson, Circus Man, III
CINCINNATI. Sept 21 -John Robin.
sod. known m all parti of the cir"us
and th. Uri'-i! world, is seriously lit
'.ere. -vlth several physicians working
ksd to save his life.
WASHINGTON Sept J! -Various com.
plaints that oanks are not extending
loans to needs clients are oeing investi
gated bv th Comptroller of the Cur
rency Wlw iht rompldiiiu Itidicdte that the
banks demand aonormally nigh lates of
interest the Comptroller is telegraphing
the bank to furnish him with a list of Its
leans and the rates charged In each In
stance Where it Is indicated that a bank
refuses o iian because of insufficient
fundt the Comptroller has decided to In
teitlgate the reason of th. shortage and
win advise that the bank take out emer
gency currency.
but now has been pared to Si WAO""
Sena 'or Simmons is unditrstood to havo
told the President that the Senate might
sr its way cleur to, cutting two ane"
one-half millions more off tho presen
total, but further than that, he said, tho
Senate would not go.
It was the feollng In most quarters that
a compromise on a bill carrying from
J5O.i',000 to 35',O,O00 would be tho out
come. Som of the Southern Senators,
however, wunt no compromise, and would
like to jam the bill to passage, regard
less of consequences to the party or the
eountry
The engineer corps uf the army has
not escaped the long debate ithout some
criticism In some instances there hae
been intimations that political influence
has e-en reached to the engineers This
recently lod Senator Ransdell to defend
the enpineer services of the army.
' PORK" NEEDED IN DISTRICTS
Criticism of the measure throughout tho
country is said to have inspired the Pres
ident to seek the sharp reduction he pro
posed It was held that the heavy sums
carried in the "pork barrel" measute
ere inexcusable at a time when htay
war taxation was contemplated as a
means to make up deficits In receipts
This is the view the President i3 said to
entertain, but man Congressmen are
up for re-election, and. in the language
of the street, 'they need the money" in
their districts
'Continuous sessions will bo forced on
the Senate unless some agreement can
bo reached with tboso leading the fili
buster on the bill, ' Senator Simmons
ald The senator declared he had con
ferred with Senator Burton leader of the
filibuster, but without result
"If Senator Burton wishes to avert con
tinuous sessions, he will have to come to
me. this time." he added grimly
The spectacle of a Senator speaking in
a buth robe and slippyis mi) be wit
nessed, if Burton is brouaht from the sofa
in nis omee tontgnt on tuu snort nonce
support of the Jews, and for the drat time
In tho history of Russia, Jeug havo been
granted commlfSlons as otllcers. Fol
lowing the battles at Lemberg many He
brews were commended for their gnl
lantrv nnd several hundred were appoint
ed otllcers. These men, now engaged In
the campaigns against Austria and Ger
many, will no doubt be the leading
spirits In tho holding of the religions cer
emonies. i In the armies of Austria, France and
England there are many thousands of
Jews The English soldiers at home
, havo been granted a furlough to spend
Rosh Hashana and Vom Kippur (the
Day of Atonement) with their families
Special provisions have been made for
the soldiers In tho field to obsere these
holidays
The French are likewise said to be ap
preciative of the services rendered by the
.lews Hundreds have lost their lives
and a recent report from Pans stated
that the Chief Rabbi of Lyons, M A
i Bloch, a volunteer helper, was killed by
the enemy near Saint Die Major Al
fred Dreytus is among the French He
brews now fighting foi their country
The Chief Rabbi of England has Issued
an appeal to Jews of the Kingdom to re
spond to the call to arms "Once moro
we will prove that the old Macoabean
spirit Is stil! alive In us," he says. "We
will offer our Hve3 to defend Great
1 Britain's Ideals of Justice and humanity
In een larger number will we continue
to Join the army of our King Be strong
and of good courage The God of right
eousness Is with us He will guard our
going out and our coming In "
The Day of Atonement follows ten
days after the beginning of tne New i the bloodiest battles of history. I
who were at the front with the Japanese
tioups, and for a while with the Rus
sian, wus Dr. Louis Livingston Sea
man
geon ma,
V. Engl
and who subsequently seived In the I'hll
Ippinvs and made observations at the I
front during the Botr tipilslng Doctor
Fcamin personally received fiom Surgeon-General
Mori, of the Japanese aimy,
the final statistics of the Russo-Japjn-ese
War. After a citieful study of them,
he says:
"The astonishing fact revealed by these
figures is that out of 77.238 dead. 15,377
met death from battle casualties, leaving
2l..V,9 who died from all other causes to
cetlier. Tho ratio of those who died
fiom disease and those who died from
battle casualties, therefore. Is as 1 to
3 5.
JAPAN'S WONDERFUL RECORD.
"Compare this wonderful achievement
of the Japanese with Longmoro's tables,
based on tho records of battles for the '
last two hundred years, which arc ac
cepted as the moht lellable statistics of
war, and which s-liow that rniely has
there been a cunillct of any great dura
tion in which at least four men hae not
peilshed irom illseuhe to eury one fiom
bullets. Vet the Japanesu lost nearly
four men from battle casualties for every I
one from disease.
' In the Russo-Turkish War tO.000 men
died from disease und 20,000 from wounds. '
It is asserted by eminent authority that
in six months of the Crimean campaign
the allied forces lost 60,000 from disease
and only 2000 from bullets.
"In our war with Mexico the propor
tion of losses, was about three from dis
ease to one from bullets, and in our
Kieat CUIl War nearly the same propor
tion obtained. In round numbers of the
hundreds of thousands of fatalities in
that conrllct nearly three-rjuaiteit, of
them resulted from disease Almost as
many men perished from fevers and In
testinal diseases as were slaughtered In
the terrible battles that ended our great i
conflict. ;
"No lessons seem to have been learned
from these frightful experiences for
later statistics show no Improvement
In the French campaign in Madagascar
in 1591, 11,000 men were sent to the front
of whom ?i were killed in action, and
7f perished from preventable disease
In the Boer War in South Africa the
English losses from disease were simply '
frightful, greater even than In our Civil I
War '
"But the crowning piece of Imbecility
was reserved for our war with Spain, '
when. In 1S9S, more than 13 men were '
needlessly sacrificed for ever one who I
died from battle casualties, and that,
too in a war the chief campaign of !
which lasted only six weeks I
Without for a moment minimizing the
splendor of her victories on land ami sea,
Mukden. Port Arthur, Liao-yang and the
Korean strait!, oi wnicn two aro among
enemy was forced to retire
"Monday the Germans opened a heavy
bombardment along the heights eastward
toward SoKsons. On Tuesday afternoon
a ery severe nttack was made by the
enemv, who evidently had been rein
forced and who seemed determined to
break through the nllled lines between
VIc-sur-AI'ne and Poisson1! Thi3 nt
tack was heralded by a tremendous out
hin t of the heaw German artillery, fol
low ed by a systematic advance of the
Infantry. The lnfantrv of the Allies,
aided bv machine guns, stood their
ground, honeer. in a most splendid fash
ion pouring a deadlv lire Into the at
tacking Germans. At certnin points the
Allies repulsed the Germans at tho point
of bayonets.
"With unabated furv this lnttle con
tinued nil night and throughout Wcdnes
da and Thursday, The Germans were
hurled at the allied troops In close for
mation, with extreme lecklessness as to
human life. Summed up In a wold, It
seemed as If the German strategy was
'weight.'
GERMANS FALL BACK.
"Tho first sign of weakening on the
COUNCILS TO RUSH LOAN '
OVER BLANKENBURG'S VETQ '
Special Meeting to Pass Municipal
Court Ordinance,
Select and Common Councils will meet .
In special sessions tomorrow. Instead of
Thursday, as orlglnnlly planned.
The change has beetr hastily made to
prevent any chance of the ordinance to
condemn property at 21st and Race
streets, for the use of the Municipal
Court, falling to become a law.
Mayor Blankenburk returned that ordl- "
nance to Common Council with his veto
last Thursday. He said the proper place
for Municipal Court buildings should be.
In the Interests of economy, adjacent to
the House of Detention The Mayor de- -nounced
the plans of the Municipal Court '
as extravagant.
Common Council passed tho ordinance;
over the Mayor's veto, barely obtalnlnl
the necessary three-fifth vote. Even Pres
ident McCurdy voiced his dissent of ths
costly project.
In order to pass the ordinance both
branches of Council must take actloa
five days after the veto Is submitted.
Select Council did not meet last week,
nnd It has now been discovered thot
the notion of the common branch In
passing the ordinance over the veto
would be ullifled if the select chamber
failed to concur before Thursday.
Both branchs will meet and the ordi
nance providing for the submitting of
the $11,300 000 loan for civic Improve
ment to the voters In November will
doubtless be passed.
As a result of Mayor Blankenburg's ,
denunciation of the $400,000 Item for ""
Municipal Court buildings, as extrava
gance, there may bo opposition to that
Item In the loan from Independent i
members
The lineup of Select Councllmen on "
the ordinance which the organization' t
has slated to bo passed over tha '
Mnyor's veto will bo watched with In-""
terest by the Independent forces. ''
CANARIES, CLOCKS AMONG
GERMANS' CURIOUS BOOTY
Chateau of "Chocolate King" looted
of Wine and Antiques.
PARIS, Sept 21
Tho magnificent chateau of M Menler,
the "chocolate king." has been looted.
All the food, wine, sllverwnte and cloth
ing on the place was carried away by
the Germans, who promised to pav at
the end of the war The famous; collection
of antique clocks was carried off as well
as a number of canaries What tho
Germans could want with these birds,
unless they desired them for pets, Is
bevnnd comprehension.
Although the Germans have done mu"h
damage In manv places, they have acted
with tho greatest consideration elsewhere.
Describing the occupation of Epernav tha
centre of the champagne-mnklng district,
one correspondent savs:
"The Germans have orders not to loot
the champagne country. It was Intended,
they said, to annex It to Germanv Tha
General Staff requisitioned 300 bottles of .
wine and paid for it In notes redeemable "
after the war They exacted various
contributions from the town. Including a
fine of $l5,0rt. As the troops retired, tha
general Bent for the Mayor ,a,nd returned
the money In consideration of the care
that had been show the German wounded
by the Epernny hospitals The Germans
took no.OOO In cash when they left
Rhelms."
Year It is customary for Jews to fast
on this day. and the majority of th
soldiers In the European armies will do
without food for 31 hours, despite the
physical strain that they are now being
forced to undergo
SERVIAN PRINCE WOUNDED
,"o Sreer Bunu" hTVq HU While Leading Cavalry Charge tltXtrZ
today a ocutlfnl dressing gown and eay Against Austrian. S. "soldiers.' uT absolutely 'Vn
still
assert ynnesiiatingiy mat the greatest
conquests of Japan hae been in the hu
manities of war, In the stopping of need
less sacrifice of life by the prevention
of disease.
"Long before the opening of hostilities
thorough preparations had been made in
the hospital service, as in ever) other
department of Japan's army. In her
i niil-bridhlng camiMMi her mllltaiy
slippers so that during quorum calls to
n.lyht he mav be able to snath brief naps
without being encumbered 1' hi tuht
clothing Should 0 quorum howevei It
obtained speedily Burton woald -ii rath.r
be embarrassed b his sartor il tffect
than to lose the door by not appearing
promptly
LONDON Sect. 21
A Router's dispatch from Nlsh says
It Is officially announced there that
Prince George of Servla was slightly
wuunicd while heading a charge of cav
alry attacking the Austrian forces on
the Save River He will shortly be
able to reioin his command,
known factor in our army These 'sanl
tar soldiers' were subservient to the
medical otllcers. to carry out sanitary
regulations serve as hosplta' stewards,
litter carriers or in, any other capacity
to which they might be detailed,
Throughout thf war they proved a moat
powerful factor."
part of tho Germans was noticed Thurs
day afternoon after their tierce attacks
tin that day had been repulsed with huge
looses
"As night fell on Thursday the Allies
began to drive back the Germans along
the extieme west of the position
fiom the river bank that is, Noyon The
work was slow and laborious and the
Germans contested eery Inch of the
way. but the attack of the Allies was I "MOVIES ' SHOW PICTURES
relentless, mm iuui vy luuc me uer
mans backed awav. At last the Allies
gained six miles and took the heights
above the river.
"The Allies took 600 prisoners and a
number of fine machine guns. They
then made several charges on tho
heights facing the terrible fire of the
enemy's artillery from the district of '
Novon, Laon and Fontenoy. The charges '
fairly staggered the 'enemy because of
their fierceness and suddenness, and they i
accomplished their object I
"A German prisoner told me that the
courage nnd the recklessness of the
French and Rrltlsh during those charges '
amazed the Germans
"At Solssons was the only place that
only a slight ndvance was made by the
Allies. This was duo to the fact that
the Germans had artillery placed in the
quarries, which form a strong natural I
position, and hs virtue of their big guns
and their position were able to hold the
allied troops partlv in check
"As I wilte the Impression exists that
the enenn's resistance is weakening
Men in the trencres state that the ftre
of the Germans has died down some,
what.
"Solssons has suffered terribly. It was
subjected to dillv bombardment bv the
great German guns Almost irreparable
damage has been done to the famous
Cathedral and to the Church of St. Jem
drs Vlgnes. It Is expected that If' thf i
bombardment continued the town will be I
reduced to ruins, but the havoc wrought
In Solssons. so far as the battle of the
Al"ne Is conci'rned. matters not at all
"Once t ie eniom is dislodged Mon. the
stone quaiiitsi thp whole German line
must fall back, just as the right wing
fell back at t'oinpleane It Is a nm-silun
of heavy artillery, and. Just now. the
Germans seem to haxe the advantage In I ISAAC AKROTT
this respect However. I have reen some Death came esterdo to Isaac ArroU
of the gieat French guns being moved at his home 3320 North Park aenue W
up and placed Into position, and the hour ' his 75th year Arrott had been en,-a?cJ
?ii. G,ai advantage in heaiy ar- at the Cramp shipyards for 3 ?aT 'I4
tuir will pas, as soon as those gun i was pensioned for the last to " ,
get Into action." - Two ,on, 8Urvive.
WITHOUT CENSOR'S SEAL
The State Board Tells of Some of Its
Troubles.
Moving picture houses, at least ft
doren of them In this city, are using tha
State Board of Censors' seal on pictures
that never even saw the Inside of tha
State's projection rooms This is tha
information given this afternoon by J.
Louis Breltlnger, chief censor
Maify of the owners of "movie" houses
about town, who receive films from tha
exchanges and who are afraid of beln?
fined for using pictures they know
should bear the State seal, simply use a
seal of their own This Is one of tho
new troubles that confront the Board of
Censors.
I'p to the present there have been but
few arrests of those who have violated
the rule covering the act .of 1911. which
prohibits the use of any film that has
not passed the State Board of Censors
Four or five who have been arrested
have been fined $50
Tho uile. which went into effect on tha
first of September, has not been strictly
kept by owner3 of "movie shows and
the State Board has been Inclined to ro
easy with them for the present B tha
first of December the law will be strictly
enforced.
JOHN MARTIN
John Martin. P5 ear3 old dud vaster
diy in the Howard Hospital. Bioad aw
Catharine streets, to w hi n I" "iii
InoiiKht tun weeks ago aftei f.illms "lW
a pit while ut work.
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