fr"Wn'lfWif.if EVENING LEBOEK- SiS r PHILADELPHIA, TOTgpAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1914. RUSSIAN MILLIONS MASS FORCES TO CRUSH LAST LINE OF THE AUSTRIAN RESISTANCE proper, where every day and every night sees some fresh destruction done. While the city Itself Is Immaterial from a standpoint of strategic Import ance, It Is the centre of a district that is Important German batteries are stationed north and northeast nf the city; French can non are stationed on hills south of the city There are believed to be about 100 000 Germans massed upon the pla teau of Craonne This Is ft position of exceptional strength. General Bluecher. who was defeated by Napo leon on the same ground, declared that 25 000 troops could hold It ngnlnst any odds. East of Verdun the Frejich lines seem to have been reinforced as there nre eight French army corps near the Lor raine border, where tho German left Is being attacked with vigor and vio lence The battle line, rouchly speaking, ex tends on the east from a point near St Die. through Lunevllle, Pont-a-Moua-sin. Ktaln. Consenvove. Montfaueon. Sntissun, to the " north of Hheims, Craonne. thenc6 alorig the Alsne val lev to a point between Lesslgny and St Quentln The line crosses three big rivers, the Olse, the Alsne and the Meuse, while It also lies across several smaller ones. French forces have worked to a point near Peronne. 17 miles north west of St. Quentln. where they are attacking the advanced position of the Germans. Tho main English army Is near Solssons. On the British left, In the vicinity of Noyon and I.esslgny, Is a strong French force, which Is evi dently trying to close In on La Fore. (La Fero Is 14 mlte3 northwest of Laon.) This French force I evidently the Sixth French Army, which was sent to help the British In Its turning move ment against General von Kluk's forces. The French and their English allies have had to fight hard to gain and to hold every foot of conquered territory As a fresh position Is gained, it is im mediately fortified This Is trving work and deadly work, for the Ger man artillery keeps up Its steady rain of shells and the sappers are com pelled to face this fire while stretch ing their earthworks Tho weather was reported to be slightly Improved 'today. But there can be little permanent Improvement expected at this season of the vpar The entire battle ground Is a quagmiro and this naturallv has hampered move ments of artillery But according to General Oallienl's headquarters thero Is not a single Important point along the entire battle front where the heaw French artillery Is not now In action SORTIE REPULSED, LORRAINE TOWN TAKEN, SAYS BERLIN BERLIN, Sept 22 (by way of Am sterdam). Official denial that the Allies have forced General von Kluk to retreat seven mile"! Is made by tho War Office. The statement adds that the right wing is standing firm at all points, al though the Allies have been heavily reinforced. Further announcement is made that attacks by the French and British forces on the German lines are dimin ishing in strength, and the German of fensive is growing stronger at all points. An official statement Issued at mid night announced the capture of the heights of Craonne and the town of Bethany (near Rhelms). The official War ufflce statement Is sued today reported an uninterrupted seri" of successes against the French It said: The attack of the German troops on the line of fortifications south of Verdun continues uninterrupt edly Cote, in Lorraine, which was de fended by the Eighth French Army Corps, has been occupied, the Ger mans now holding this point. A sortie of the French troops from the northeast front of Verdun was repulsed Fortresses like the heights of Craonne have been taken In battle. In the advance against Rhelms. which is now afire, the village of Betheny has, been taken. The- enemy shows signs of weak ening as a result of his continued attempts to capture our positions. On the contrary, our troops, fight ing from well fortified points, have had a rest and are taking a strong offensive. Their attacks are crow ing stronger at all points. Great alor has been shown by the enemy's troop. They have charged repeatedly In an attempt to silence our artillery, but have been as repeatedly repulsed. The statement Issued at midnight said:. I The strong, hilly positions at ; Craonne have been captured. Ad- i vanring on Rheims, our troops oc cupied the village of Bethany. Wo are attacking the strong forts on the line south of Verdun and have crossed the east border in the direction of Lorraine, which Is defended by eight French army corps (320,000 men). A sortie from the northeast of Verdun has been repulsed. The French troops camping to the north of Toul (13 miles east of Nancy) have been surprised by our artillery. In tho rest of the French war theatre there have been no en gagements. In the Belgian and Eastern (East Prussia) battlefields the situation is unchanged. The statement that the French have eight army corps In the Lorraine region Indicates that the Allies" right wing Is trying to turn tho German left With the heights of Craonne held by the German centre. It will be possible to withdraw troops from there to strengthen both the right and left wings i" thfy are threatened. No details of the situation at Rhelms. beyond the fact that the town has been boibarded. have reached Berlin The belief Is growing hre that the war is going to extend Into the winter In fact, preparations for a winter cam paign are being made The news of the rapid advance of the Germans after they entered Belgium had caused j the people of Germany to expect a quick triumph, but he failure of this expectation to be fulfilled has caused no alarm. It is stated that the movement to take Rhelms. and with it the eight !m- t portant railroads, especially sought from a strategic point of view, pro ceeds uninterruptedly and with every prospect of success In this connec tion It is added that Verdun has been i isolated This strongly fortified position is now being bombarded from two ! sides by the Gorman heavy siege artll- ' lery and every effort Is being made j to take it. It is understood that the present niovemnt has for its objfict the sepa ration of the allied armies, and espe cially the piercing of their entre This movement ' slowly but surelj surf ft ding it is declared. (' '. . tr in i , i mi i I .,''' "Ig mBKSmmwj mm BwKBam Wjiip mm IBS I COLD STEEL CHARGE BROKE DP GERMANS' DETERMINED DASH Wounded Briton Tells How Inyaders Were Stabbed. in Back City Troops En dure Noise Better. . LONDON, Sept. 22. This grim story of a British bayonet I charge In which he Germans were routed I was related by la wounded soldier Just I back from northern France: "They can stand fire, can those Qer ! mans. We were picking them off like winking, and still they came on "Then, when they got within shouting distance, we received the word to charge. Our officer was a sprinter, but we were out of the trench and heeling after him, all of us shouting. "The Germans seemed Btruck. They Just stood and gaped ns we came chas ing down, their mouths wide open, as If they were wondering what the blazrn we were ud to. "When we were within 20 or 30 yard? of them thero was an alteration. Thev knew then what we wanted, and they Just threw down their rifles, turned about and set the pace. Some of them, as they went, chucked off their packs, and a few evpn tried to pull off their tunics. "But we had 'em! I never knew I could run before, nor the other chaps, and we pinked the 'blighters' In the back bv the score. "When we got winded we came back the same way, and It was so; they were lying on their faces, bayoneted In the back." A lance corporal of tho Connaught Rangers said: "The disconcerting thing In battles now adays Is that you may be fighting for hours on end and never as much as se an enemy to grapple with. "The way tho Germans sacrifice their men for the sake of making an impression Is appalling. One position on our left t from which we would have fallen back In any case, because It was dominated by a battery which wo couldn't locate, was advanced against by the German infantry under a heavy fire. They came on in one long never-ending stream, while our rifle and gun fire tore hideous gaps through their ranks "The Red Cross men say that In front of that position alone WO dead and wounded were picked up after the fight RUSSIAN HORDES BAFFLE GERMANS IN FIERCE ONRUSH Avalanches of Troops, With' Terrific Cossack Raids, Overwhelm East Prussia. Celerity Marks Moves. PETROGRAD, Sept. 22. Such success as has come to the Ru. slan armies against the Germans In nut Prussia has proved a welcome surprise to many of the veteran troops of the Czar who, at tho beginning of the great European war. still smarted from tha effects of their defeats by tho Japanese. There has been a change In the condl tlon of things on the Russo-Oerman frontier that might surprise even per. sons familiar with the Russian plan of campaign. One Russian ofllccr at 1pbi. who may bo regarded as u reliable au thority, has been much surprised by ths rapid progress of the Russian advance. Originally five Russian army corps were ordered to the Austrian frontier for the purpose of delaying tho Austrian advance If It should be directed against that line. However, the Russian Gen eral Staff was quite convinced that the main attack would aim at Warsaw through Poland, and to meet that at tack two new army corps were sent for ward, and at the same time the cavalry on the left flank (Chotln and Klclcc), was strengthened. The Austrian Invading army met only weak opposition In Poland, and the two Russian corps appeared to retire. Suddenly the Russian canlry In th South, that Is to say. on the left wing, based on Klelce, took the offensive At the same time the Russian army was ready to pour her enormous masses Into Prussia from the northeast frontier Tho great Russian mobilisation was ready several days before Germany had expected, and Just at the moment when Germany should have made her decisive blow at France and been able to spare her first lino troops for meeting the Frus. slan attack. This plan became a failure. Now, Russia has more thai two an4 one-half million troops In the north-east corner of Prussia alone, and tho Cossa k was over. Our los3 was not more than ' cavalary number 130,000, In seven battle.' 20 of all ranks. I divisions. The German defence agalnsj "What we are all wondering Is how this avalanche consists of second line long the Germans can keep up this sort reservists, not more than "0,000 strong, of thing. I have seen our cavalry thrown i PINCH HITTERS! British and the French Algerian tioops have terrorized the enemy b$ the force of these attacks. They carry a bao net blade longer than that of , the Ger mans, and they have shown an eager ness to resort to cold steel that s.mply has terrified the German outposts. SAY GERMAN DEFENSE IS AT HIGH TIDE BORDEAUX. Sept. 22. Despite all efforts on the part of the Germans to diminish the pressure on their right wing, the allied turning movement continues, General Joffre declares in a report from the front te celvod by Minister of War Millerand. Not only Is the army of General von Kluk retiring, he said, but there are Indications that the German centre has reached the high tido of Its resistance, AUSTRIAN MASSED : SERBS OVERWHELM ALONG CRACOW LINE AUSTRIAN INVADERS; FOR FINAL STAND , SARAJEVO OCCUPIED . j Main Russian Army, En- One Army Wins Four Days' ,,1 .' D 1 I n ,.i r. a .i vtiupiuy t ueniy5i ana j oauie on L-rina; Another, Jaroslaw and Cutting Com munications, Presses Westward. PKTROGRAD. Sept. 22 That th-a main Ilurolan army has pressed on uftr enveloping the Przemysl Jaroslaw line along the San, and Is mov ing against the chief Austrian positions was the substance of today's War Ofllce With Montenegrins, Cap tures Bosnian Capital. X1SH, Sept. 22 Complete defeat of tho Austrian army that Invaded Servla was olllclally an nounced here today. The official statement describing tho rout of the Austrian forces s.Id: into confusion merely because the horses shied at the heaps of dead bodleB they had to tread over when attempts were made to clear our front of the advancing Germans." Sergeant Major MacDermott writes in a letter: "Wn're w-onderfui'v cheerful, and happv as bare-legged urchins scamper ing over the fields. Not that there's much play for us. It's all work, fight ing and fighting and working again, though you mustn't think I'm grum bling, for I'm not. "I am writing to you with the enemy's rhells bursting and screaming overhead. Though their artillery has been making a fiendish row all along our front. "It's th? quantity not the quality of the German shells that are having ef fect on us. and It's not so much tho actual damage to life as the nerve racking noise that counts for so much. Townsmen who are used to the noise of the streets can stand It a lot betted than the countrymen, and I think you will find that by far the fittest men are those of regiments recruited In the big cities. "A London lad near me says It's no worse than the roar of motor omnibuses in the city on a buy day." DUTCH TANKER HARDENED TO HOLD-UPS ON HIGH SEAS The American Stopped Six Times in Two Voyages. NKW YORK. Sept. 22 The Dutch tank steamship American arrlvpd In port today from Rotterdam, putting an end to a round trip vonge In a four-day battle near Krupanl , ;' 7 ,.!''""" "' D""B (near the Drlna Rlvor) the Austrlans were tlonfi then. were of has not ' and that It also will soon be forced to i postlon (hat hB, GERMAN COMMUNICATIONS ON RIGHT THREATENED LOMHi.V sp'. J 2. The renewed pressure of thf lin'.h and French alone a ten-mile fron1 be tween Cambrai and Ltratelet has forrert the German extreme neht back to a point where funhtr retirement will enable the Allies to cut the Kaisers railway communication from r&mbrai through Maubeuge to Namur, and to threaten the railway Une from Bt Quenttn to both Maubeuge Meziere. .v,.ir,n ", th German border, on the he.rfh's nf I'ommier-, thpy have on tni' ie,j rmmb-jiro'if shelters with sub t rranan passages, affording commu nication to th rear. From these heights their guns are bombarding tha French line. The failure of the German rein forcemems sent to aid General on Kluk to break down tha Brltish- nd j French opposition emphasized, the os I perm say. the fact that the Germans One of the developments of the day's news is the report received by 4 new agency hece to the effect that General von Kluk has been transferred to Mens, in Belgium. If the report In,, tends to coney the meaning that the entire staff of the German right has bevn sent back across the Belgian bor der, it foreshadows a further and im mediate retreat of the German line. Another meaning read into ths report, however, is that General von Kluk ha been relieved as commander of Ws army on the German right, which has been forced baek before the attaeHs of the British and French forces. The army under the German Crowa Print e is said to have prepared 8 sec. pnd line of defensive works to the rear pf its present position and to be ready to drop back to them The whole Ger man lire pas rorstrurted a series of e" t"r e 4iTrtnrhrn?nts and smill f-rts. which virtually reach from were at the "end of their string." To lay this hij iu confirmed by the an nouncement that the Gorman right wing is bi-ine pushed hack at a rate of nearlv four miles a day. Thia spesd Is expected to be accelerated now that the Germans haxe been driven from their strongest tranches. Much attention is being paid to a re port that the Germans have prohibited retire to a new line. The army of tho frown Prince is reported to have estab lished a new line of defen&es across the Meuse River, indicating that It will hardly hold Its present positions much j serves have longer. All along the line, the reports received b the General Staff indicate the Allies are succeeding. tt is stated that the complete retiring movement may tako borne days to de velop But that it hits set In, Is the official declaration made by Minister of War Millerand himsalf. He declared that the extreme left of tho French llns has been the scene of the fiercest fighting In the present war. the bayonet being resorted to time after time In clearing tho Germans from their rifle pits He renamed the battle of the Alsne the "battle of two rivers," because of the fact that it Is now raging along the Oise as well SB the Aisno. Ho be lieves that the result will not bo defi nitely known for several days, but hus no doubt that the decision in thia great death grapple wtll go to the Allies. It is probable that the great battle of two rivers, which is heing fought with unparalleled fury, will cotuinu for several days," he said, "although the Allies are making constant prog- statement. It announced that the opera- (overwhelmingly defeated and fled in dls 1 order. In our pursuit we took TOCO prls- I oner and 12 guns. I "The Austiians are attempting to rally their forces across the Drlna. but our pursuing troops are mntrhlng on Svornlk a fortltled ustrlan ton., on the Drlna and continue their success. "At Shabiitt .inoilier io.ee of Austrlans necessity Mow, but that been encounered anv on- any change in tho original plan of campaign. It !e considered ceitaln that the real lesistrtnce on a latge scal will be en countered along the lines of tho Cracow fortifications. There the been ma used and heavily On the outward vovage It was held un four times by English men-of-war: on the return voynce It was stopped twice. The first British cruiser to Intercept the tanker was the Suffolk, which was lvlng off Pandv Hook watchlnc for Gprmnn merchantmen Off Nantucket the crulspr Plana, which was maintaining a blockade there, stopped the American the .second time. The third Interruption was off Sa hle Island, where the cruiser Gloria was already retiring to the row of forts along the Vistula between Konlgsocrg, Jlarlen burg, and Torn. However, this line will be difficult to force by nn Invading army, It will ba more dinicult for the reservist army, which has only 540 guns and about 600 Maxim guns, to defend. The effect of this heavy Russian at tack is noticeable everywhere In the east of Prussia, and over Berlin Is a cloud of stern pressure. People are leaving their homes in fright of the Cossack hord, who are spreading with an enormous celerity There are still bout 20,000 Russians In Germany In a distressful plight More than 10,000 of the German-Russians have left during the last two weeks to return home bv way of Sweden All of them were lacking the ordinary necessaries of life, but the Swedish people everywhere have tried to lessen their sufferings, ana at tho main ratlwav Junctions. whtM the special trains stopped, Swedish ladle IT have distributed food and rugs, tie"! ; among the miserable people They all k tell the most appalling stories of iha,J rough treatment they have met with lit several places In Germany, but at tha same time they tell many Stories of Ger man courtesv and chivalrous behavior toward the female fugitives. ' BRESLAU BESIEGED BY CZAR'S FORCES, FEARED IN BERLIN ivrn lipfrAtf'il with henvv lns ThBO .. Austrian re- ' Victoria will piovont any interruption In , cnBnB ,n English chnnnnl n crulsor me e.impaicn .iBainst f-araievo" ........ .....- . ...... . ,,.,,,-, ,Um .-. After routing nt Kunlnnvn. lust nr,.. crew because they were German 1 If 1 .tpitlio ill wit- i.iiik 21111) pniq ne reinforced by the German landwehr corj, which have bfm especially detailed for service In Austria. The Ifisslaii forces aie moving slowly 1 Wrtnwaid through Gnllcla. awaiting the ai rival of nt least n portion or the army of f-oo.wo that Is proceeding through Poland to the front. FIVB PORTS DEFTROVKD Five of tho 23 forts at Jaroslaw have bpen shattered by the Russian gunx. but eighteen still hold out, it was stated at the War Olttce. Tho bombardment of Przemysl continues, but no breaches have et boon made In the walls of the torts At the request of the Austrlar com mander at Przemysl, General Von Col. 1 ad. an armistice of five hours was de claied lato yesterday to prmlt of tha aoparwre u mo iiuii-iuiiiuaiuHig wno Brothers, wholesale coal dealers, by Com wished to leave- Many decided tu re- mon Pleas Court No 2 The npplUation ,, I for the rtcelvershlp wis nride by Martha ma,n" . ' W. Irish. Ned Irish and Charles V. The forts at Przcmisl are among the Rreckons. executors under the will nf 1 acrrmf) tho hnrdpr into Rl.lvnnla tl.n A.. ..!.. ni my of IVUM. which wax thre.if ning ould have been sorely disappointed if Servla from the north, the Servi nt re" , h' hn'' "nt tP0? Piyd bv warships on crossed the Save and one bodv Is hasten- ,n' v0'a,je back to .New ork Inn westwaid to Join the Montenegrin I force opciatlng In Bosnia. MRS. RRinRPT HARFY SPARF ueiu nmriv Servia now has In tho 2.V'w men Jlosl or them were 1,1 the force which attempted an In Vision to the nnithwest from Belgrade and Semlm and met the Austrian force of four army cot JIS. RECEIVERS ARE NAMEDF0R IRISH BROS., COAL DEALERS Executors Take Steps to Protect As sets of Creditors. Alta F Johns. Samuel I, Clarke and Thomas D Flnletter weie today ap pointed receivers for the firm of Irish I r, 1 stiongeat In the world. It Is understood , nurd Irish The application was mule 1 Henkel's house ACQUITTED OF THEFT CHARGE Accused Seven Years Ago of Poison ing: Her Two Children. Without leaving the box a Jury befor' Judge Honnlwell in the Municipal Court tod-iy acquitted Mrs Rrldset Carey Spare of a larceny charge Peven vears ago she was found not guilty of having poisoned her two children The woman, through aid given her, lived quietly until her arrest several months ago on the larceny charge This her attornev declared was trumped up by her husband so he could obtain a divorce Sirs Spare was charged with steal ing 6.27 from Mrs. I, W. Henkel of North l"th Mroet. and with the larceny or a gold locket from a boarder In Mrs Communications With Capi tal Suddenly Cease Indi cating That Russians Have Penetrated Silesia on Way to Berlin. ress A new step In ur advance on Patch shipping traversing the Rhine i ,be W lcU win " i61' by Heretofore, Dutch steamship have I Ue arrival al ESS"'' len ml,es we8t vi,.n THln mm'nmpnl fq nf PK- h.,, ih, nirrimn has suDnlies Kiitiici.n ! In order that the assets and business ma . 1,., .,. vjn ' be Protected against demands by secured to last two sears. creditors, who. slnco the death of one o While part of ho Russian forces, are the partners. J nurd Irish, last April, investing Przemysl and Jaroslaw the ' have been making Insistent demands that main part of the First and Second armies ' their loans to the flnn be reduced or that continue their operations, west of the additional fecurin be given River San and south of the Vistula The Owing to the present abnormal tfe Aufctrltns defeated at Uobtecka have 1 preion in business, the slriiinenci of fallen back in disorder to Jaslo. on the ! ,nc mntiej market and the linposslbllty, Wtstok river, and the Russians nave 1 "t Ihls time, to realize an adequate price occupied Itzeszow. 1 for the sale of anv of its propertv. the Tne ttlzuro 01 nzeszuw fevers railroad ' oriu. nuiioupn sniveni. nus rcen uname communication betwten the Austrlans in I Jaroslaw and Przemysl and those In I j ..n... T, l ..., . . rarnow aim -,rtvw n s iiu'jerigiooq that German reinforcement, are Joining the Austrlans at Jaslo. and the net gieat oattle may be fought between tne eieamship have been permitted to come un the Rhine I o !M into Cerman territory The British "eme Importance. Tlwt why tho -.-.,.., , ..,.. 1 .,. ..- 1 S,l military ererts declare this action . I craonne region na Bm in ne " 1 .. the Carpathians " -" " . ... . . .. -1 ' w. j .,. -- .. naturally dm to the faet that the Qer- i vt'"6 conmcu ano twyonei cnarges j Tne rominw wv.,,,ao .... Auinari to comply, and as. tome creditors have threatened to bring suits, obtain Judg ments and issue executions thereunder, it "a deeded o te best for the inter ests of the firm and its creditors that the court be nfited 10 aproinl receivers roan are strongly fortifying their "The Germans are nwwnK oesperate Rhine defense preparatory for a final efforts to diminish the pressure on - -SI --MCT I Stand there, and that, of aseasslty. San and Wtstok Itivers Jn the foothills 1 to protect the business anil tho at.set The assets arc .iiven dv tne applicants for tin receivership as ll"O000 and the indebtedness as JTMXttO. of which J515.W0 of they are beeping all eurious eycg frorn beholding their work. It is declared by all of the military experts re that the most credit to the Allies can be attributed to the et-ht of their bayonet charges. The then... as It would ce possible fur the " secured oy ine pieuge 01 upward Feeond Busilan Armv to flank them by SW of the assets or the nrm .. M.Jd.n mnpment alonz tha tin. v 1 h hUEinfrSS of the firm It U Said. their extreme right wing, but have. ,enaln4 trom Itanlzow to Haranow " is a paying one and Its assets. If nevertheless, been forced to give way fnloss the Austro-Oerman troops giv i properly conserved, ore ample. It Is neverineie. w- , w he BuMiang about iilo u , tal(li to pay fxUtin claims The In- "By completing our lines from Al- i wouia be impossible to prevent their -.orao ttom stocks and bonds and other ,,. tn th. irnmni. forest tt e hivt escape to Cracow, as they have a r.um- "- Including those held as collateral sace to the Argonne forest, we have escape raHroa(U at the(j, sVICe1 nljn' . for loaxit and excluding the earnings of deprtvel the German centre between I on account of the man swamps in the nrm tTom the ale ' coal- 'or the .- . j c- , ,.. . ,. r ! riilicii west of the San It is exDtctea i lr ending April 1. 19H. exceeded the Rhelms and Soualn of Its scope of wth,.?,Mf. 0f the Russian ?rooP. ' ium of I15.M0. and Is sufficient to pay movement It is agatnst a steel wall." B1n necessarily be much slor now. the Interest on all obligations. Special oncers testified Xlrs. Snare ad mitted stealing the mone and had told them where she had secreted the locket. Thev stated she offered to pay back th money The woman s counsel showed that the policeman did not make a search for the trinket Mrs Spare acknowledged that she sought to make settlement in the amount of the rash alleged to have been stolen, but explained that she had experienced so much notorlelv in her trial on the charge of murdering her two children that she offered to pay the small amount to escape further publicity She also testified to the enmltv of her husband She denied emphatically that she had taken the mon or Jewelry from Mrs. Henktl's house where she had been em r!n ed BRITISH STEAMSHIP SUNK Russian Vessel Rescues Passengers and Crew Off Treblzond. TREniZOXD. Turkey in Asia. Sept 22 The British steamship Belgian King, which left this port esterday for Con stantinople with a cargo of livestock on board, has been sunk off Cape Kurell The 120 passengers and crew on board were rescued by the Russian steamship Princess Eugenie. HEfiLIN, by way of Rome, Sep' 22. All telegraphic and telephonic inminu tilcHtlon with HreMnu suddenly ceasrd to dn. It Is fcuKd that the Russian centra may have pushed forwaid and be attaik il.g the city. It seems almost incicdible that His RusKi'ins could have penetrated In fores to lireMau so that they tould have cut off communication with Rirlin Breslau is one of the links of the chain in tne Oder lino of fortifications. After Berlin It Is the second largnst city In Piussla. nnd Is the capital if Silesia. It occupies an Impottap' strategical posi tion on the Oder and ls,a city of ttcat historical Interest. It has been piepared for a possible raid by the Russians, and the last reports available from trera stated that there was a vei strong i"! r man force between It and the eastern frontier. GERMAN ENVOY INDIGNANT AT VANDALISM CHARGES "Preposterous," to Call Destruction of Cathedral Intentional. XEW YORK. Sept 21-Count von Hftnstorff. German .mbassador to the United States, does not believe that the German army Intentionally destroied the cathedral at Rhelms. "It Is preposterous to state that ths destruction of that magnificent bulldi 3 was Intentional," he said today "Personally." he added, "mv sympa thies are more aroused by the killing and wounding of the men who fought than by the damage to the buildins James Spever, the banker, asieed wltl Count von Bcrnstorff that whatever haun was done to the Rhelms cathedial by German shells was unintentional ..i, la n niv inn maKiiiucriit ....---- ii t.-j- --- was damaged," he said replaced. ' It can never be MEAT l?1.00 A POUND aJ 'it In nearlv II a pounJ f lin Two hundred ake-es ai bread with potatoes and barle, F r- HIK'l 4lirilbfcJ4dMifc-4MaMLitti Stl. iM ll in i Mninmr i -mmtmtmlait ... .. ...JL... Jl
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