-i4r S- EtfST"WV T aQtiSSr rrit&- war- W '$$ "" "-. Mjuamuwiwuw y I At iii 4 A f mm mm 4 GERMANS DRIVEN BACK BY VIOLENT ATTACK Continued from fuse One arihlei on lh right bank of tho JIouSc. In tho Woevt-o region tile Violent , nltncks which the enemy lifts ttt tomploil to the east of Apfltnoftl have been roimlsed, on the tight wing (Lcfpnfne and the Vosrcs) there 19 no ?liangt, tn Russia, on the front of finst 1'rtissla, tho nusslnnR' offensive1 .continues. There is sharp lighting on tho frontier west of Suwalkl, The statement that the compactness of tho clorman troop north of the Aisno appears to be diminishing indicates tlmt the Germans are withdrawing troops steadily from the centre for sarvleo on tho right wing. The state ment that the dernmns still hold St. Jtlhlel solves one of the questions that has served a a mystery to the military experts for some time. Tho French recently announced that they had driven the Germans cast of St. Mlhlel, but said nothing as to the town Itself. Today's announcement shows that the Hermans nre stltl In a strong position In the Verdun region. The nre.it battle of the Aisne finally has been extended to Belgian soil and furious fighting Is reported In prog ress between the nermann nnd tho Al lies around Menln. i'pres, t'oper inghe, Courtal, Wnereghem and Att denarde. Tho scene of this fighting, however. Is a consideruM- distance from Gen eral Alexander von Kluk's main line of communtcatli'iii. All now look to the extreme north eastern part of France and northwest ern Belgium for the next decisive de velopments. The cavalry advance guard of the French army of the north appears to hu reached tho eastern end of the (ie-tmun right flunk where It has encnuntt red Herman reserves. Instead of being extended farther east, tho new battle front reaches farther northward. The grand tot il of men now engaged In extern France and Belgium ap proximately is 4 '"i.nO'), and tho battle line Is about 2j0 miles long Beginning In the Woevre di-trict of Lorraine, It ptretches westward to the Somme Blver, from which point it swings to the northeast into Belgium There have be..-n 2-i days ef fighting lr. this titanic engagement and even yet the end is not in sight. STEADY PROGRESS ON RIGHT IS GERMAN STATEMENT BERLIN. Oct. S. , Repulse of the Antwerp garrison in fighting between the inner and outer j forts there and continued success In j the movement to flank the Allies in I France are announced in an official (statement issued at the War Office at midnight. The statement follows: Heavy rtghtmij between great forces of cavalry continues at the western end f the battle lino in France. Infantry figure in the con flict only o '"i-in.iily WV took Douai from the French and they have been -: i.ris to drive us out for several du -, without success. "We are maklntr steady proress. The capture of Fort Rrr'eehem, at Antwerp, was accomplished BRITISH FLEET AT OSTEND WATCHING GERMAN ADVANCE LONDON', Oct. 8. Belgium today was the centre of ac. tion in the European war. With the Germans n t 'oi.ioally attacking Ant werp, it w i -ic. ppted as a faot that the fort- c- must surrender. And new by f '"uteirf nwl Ii'jnkirk Indicated .' the to-calkd. battio of the Aitnt " nv i-har as "the ,.. i 'att Into Sout'-' r-i l"Ig The Otrin.u.-, ,ir moving 'r ""- f..tci hind tbeii i.aiiy plainly coi '.'uinrf ti the Britisi lines of way of the i.ivnr. i. r r,i ."i. iully . v - . t r.dt,d 1 -. be ' tr be- d r to eat j rn,. 'inr.d tuin It Is stated t' -it a Jtr'-' -i dron of British dreadi" ifgljts is now mussed nt Ostend and also along . ast watching the 1'rt-nch Larfeor , ues. Tbia fleet will W uif4 ta prevent the ' Germans tahtng the sea,oout cities, ' thus ettsbiishlng a hase for possible Zeppelin a,ttack an England. 3be Germans are said to hv Ftronsly entrenched the Hue f b Scheldt River, while their outpour were reported today to ha vest of 1'prm 18 Butea north f and slightly v,'et ol J4W- It Is reported that ttoer has bep heavy aghting in the neigh bofho4 of UU and sth f t r -with so deciaiv resih. A, Bjatlsh exp4ttionry lore t ut rmswtloned strength luts be rushed Into Antwerp from wet of Ghent 1 expedition was detiared to consist chiefly of artillery and saviil de tachment with heavy guns. The au thorities positively refuse to admit ve that British troops are in action la Balgium at all. The Germans are reported redoubling their tft'trt-' to take Antwerp city. They aiu n. Xat sirunscr furce ths. Douftl and Tournal have been re oecupled by German troops. That the outflanking movement of ilia CJermfths did not aurer.-d was due entirely to the work of the Ornish air seouts. They reported the coming of strong Oepmnn forces from the north to Ornernt d'Amade, and the latter promptly raited for reinforcements, fie lay In their arrival enabled the Ger mans to move south from Lille, but when the French strength was assem bled the Germans again were driven back. They continue, however, on the offensive, and this results In severe fighting all along tho western line. At one point the German cavalry stireeeded in breaking through the Allied line, not far from Lille, but not in sufficient strength to make the feat of appreciable importance. The retirement of the Allies, at the point where their lines had been breached by the Germans, was order ed by tho General Staff and tt was ac complished according to orders. With 4 strengthened line the Allies again inoved forward against tho Germans nnd ousted them With heavy loss. The losses are Well Illustrated by this fact; one company of French Infantry started to war with 190 men and a full complement of officers. Since then It has received drafts, bringing its total up to 324. Today the company is com posed of 90 men. commanded by a ser- gennt. All the higher officers have been killed. Tt is learned that the nctlve German army fighting the Allies in France and Belgium Is composed of 23 army corps, of 40,000 men each: 18 corps of reserves, several divisions of the Landwehr and large detachments of the tatndsturm, a section of the army designed only for national defense. Under normal condi tions, counting tho cavalry and artil lery, this number of units would make a grand total of approximately 2,000,000 men, and the number of soldiers in the allied army Is fully as great, if not greater. Two German forces, operating from Cambral and Valenciennes, occupied Douai after hard fighting After occupying Tournal the Ger mans seized 30 of the must prominent citizens as hostages after heavy fighting. We captured there 52 Held guns, four heavy bat teries and many machine guns. The Belgians attacked our troops between the outer and inner forts after wo had effected a breach that allowed us to approach the city. They were repulsed. The Germans attacking Antwerp have crossed the River Nethe and are approaching the inner forts. The capture of the Belgian guns was effected In the open field. Many of the guns in the outer forts were wrecked completely. i According to the liokal Anjteigrr, the siece guns that raustd the fall of I Maubeuge have been taken to Ant werp. These Include Austrian artil- t lery. any one up to the prf s-nt has imagined. It is declared that there are not lesa than a nuarter of a million men en gaged about the, city and it is invested from the south, east and northeast, al though the most determined efforts are ticmg made on the south. While the residents of Antwerp are pamc-stru-ken and have iU4 the city wherever p"sble, tne RaigUut force? are still confident. Conflicting reports regarding King Albert are in circula- tl0n hftrft gma of tltt facials at the Belgian Legation say that he still is in Antwerp personally directing tha flight on a steamship that carried to Ostend fjr shipment to England many of the Antwerp art treasures. The War Oflfco t her refuse to discuss hla whereabout. While Antwerp naturally engrosses the attention of the gcr.eral public hero, the general attuattoa in Fran U d, elared by th War oce t ha ewelient. The Qsrman gresi offensive move, ment on the western end of the battle un is reported as wanln. it is b. iieved that even, the fresh troops hat hav hsen m freely poured into the line to aid Von riiu and Von Boehn now are beginning to d the tajk f Hyea. ing the Allied line beyond b power of hurnaa endurance. fionjt of the wfflciala hr bua that Oenaany Is malting tfc desperau ef. fort reported in progress at Antwerp in eida? to get a Una to which har troops can retreat and hlch cannot ho flanked ro the west because u wil rest close to Patsh territory. 50PE FOKBIDS WAa TALK ROUE Oct 8 Pope Eencdut XV has issue. I en admouitluo to rasmtxTs .jf re ligious ojdrt in belljKreut cuuiiru-s. in structii.a thm to rf:aw frvita bcllK.je uddrciucs. EVENING LEDGER PnTLADELPniA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER PHI 7T7 7 A -r E-STMArH! Ij a. "" " 'V .SIfeiNT DEliGHEM ! stew fjUwttw j) JSe The Germans arc attacking Antwerp from the southeast, and claim to have taken the forts at Wacthcm, Wavre-St. Catharine, Konigshoyckt, Lierre, Kessel and Broeclicm. which arc on the outer line of defenses, just ten miles from the city itself. The Belgians were reported as forming a new line of defense along the rivers Nethe and Rupel. Si DELIGHTS OF THE AS I After two weeks spent within the Oer- man line, a French company of infantry rweme, has made lis ay back to th" j French linei. It was accompanying a battery of artillery as a rnur uard, was cut off by a superior force of German and found Itself in the midst of the en- j einy. ir louna sneuer in a wrow, niiu two weeks later, aftor several fights, It has siiccedeci ln rejoining the t'reneh lines, some tlltnnce from the station of the regiment to which it belongs. One of the Kmdsh reulments now fight ing on the battle front has a trophy cap tured without resistance. It is a Herman fla found In an unoccupied trench undr a henp of eorpses, directly before the British front. One of the most interesting patients In the Moscow hospitals Is Kutnxa Krutch kof, who killed 11 fiormnns single-handed ami who as the first to recive the rib bon of the Order of St. (.iportte for biavery. He is a hnndsomp oung man, dark, slender nnd with brlll'ant ejes that Bazo out of a strolls', sun-tanned face. Here Is KrutchKof's oimi story: "I, with eveial c.unpnnions started out from 1'ilvary for Al"indroo nn roland near the (Jeiman frontier). As p were climbing a little hill a dtnch mpiit of soldl-rs from Hip Ninth Herman Lancers. 2T inn and two otUi-vis, made a dash at us. In evading thrlr attack we Kot separated from one another. There weic ek-ven Clermaus flhtlnit me. "A Oermnn slnphed at my tinners so J threw my itn down, drew my sword and sot to work In earnest. I sot several slU'ht wounds and fMt th blood run nine down my body, but they were not serious enough to weaken me. l-'or every wound I got I cave back a denilly Idow. An officer spransr at me. but 1 lepulsed his attack and chased him. When r caught up to lihn I ewunu my sword and brought it down upon his head with all my force, but it failed to co ihtoush his metal helmet. I Mashed out nsialn. and as I did so the Clot man turned his head so that the thrust struck him full In the neck. His head Was almost completely severed. My swotd arm had crown so weak fr'iii my exertions that I could hardly wield my weapon bo I picked up a lance that had belonged to a dend Her man so'.dter and with this dispatched all the other (irrmms. Meanwhile my com rades had managed to slay all the othets I had 18 wminda, but none of thorn was serious. Two weeks afterwards (ieneral Rennenkampf came to mo and taking hN Order of St. Seorjc on his coat, plnm d It upon my bteast. M burse is alive and well. Wtih'n a few daj I will he back in the tUhtiu.; nyaln." A younir ofTb f r. who 1 s een the whole ROYAL MAIL LINER SLIPS BY GERMAN CRUISER AT MIGHT British Ship's Voyage Un nding Round of Excite- 4, f-l..j; Tl,-,fi f tiicuit uiviuuiug i iicn vi , Papers of Diplomatic Value. NJJW yOJlK, Oct. , A blockade runner of the stirring Civil War days eouid net havs erod4 mt. excitement into a vojugc than did the Royal Mail liner Or4av!a, which arrived from linden today by way of the Aaores and th West Ind'.efc. The Orots,via had been forewarned of th presence o! the lierrqan cruisers Karlsruhe and Ditsden and steamed caution! , wearing only h-r mast lights at mebt. Frequently they picked up wlrles4 messages that had bn e cbamted betita the two airman ar hips, On th night of September t) the Ora tayla almost ran into una of thu German warships which was blocking the path the QeVmans though the British imr chantman weald travel. The captain put en foreed 4rw..t and the Bngliah sldp made a swift, wid detour to get out of range of th man-of'Wai's searchlight. There was w nwub, jcciument on board mot of the time that the crew and as seagcra g little ktp. These w.re only two passeogvra oa tae Ship when she reached tids prt. although she bad efried TO ahtn slie left lu-dan- Th-y wr Mr- and Mrs. Gorgt Austia Jloure. Mrs. Mooi wm furmtrly Miss CordeUa Hagers. of LuisvilW, Ky. Ther was a roisterfous passenger oa hoard known as Mr. Grant, whu was on bis way to wuuamstaa. on tae uuicn island uf Curacao, M.M dira aioore. -vi i last ue ascertained hi identity, and he 4kboledg-d that h was Cuptatu Gu Gaunt, naval attache to the Bnluh Ktn bessy at Wai.hir.gtoo He was on a ilan desttoe mixtion tu u...i-rtLn if the Lytch wer violating ihir nfcutralily. It had teen rjurted to tha British Admiralty that German warships ure securing war tujiplit-n at Williamsiu.U Captain Gaunt w.is It Nw York khortly after war bre i ut hr aid and cntj day. while he was a' i nt fr.i u h1 room. It wg.i I icken Into and J jtiblvi i.j.pn of diplomatic value I takn." WAR TOLD IN DISPATCHES tourse of campaign from tho landing of jim ttiitish troops, writes: ,.j , , ,, , t k u JV ' Pl0 ln England understand that they should bo most exceedliiBly thankful that t,y aro living on nn island and not In th0 midst of the dreadful th lies which are happening on tho continent. Do on force upon the public that ICngland must fisht this thing out, and must conquer even if it has to spend the blood of Its joung men llko watct. It will bo far bet ter that every family throughout Kns land should have to sorrow for one of Its members than that England should have to jro through similar ordeals to those which contiiK ntal countrl"S are suffering." A Russian officer reports that one of his soldiers went out and brought back on horsebnek under his enemy's fire a comrade who subsequently was discov ered to be a young woman. She was wounded and is now In a hospital at KiefT. A British war correspondent Is not afflicted with false mode-sty. "Like Henry V before th- battle of Aslncoiirt," he writes. "I found myself wishing," etc. A British "Jackie" offers his concep tion of a naval battle in tho followini; homely terms: "Just these few lines to let you know that I am quite sofa after our battle with the Germans. It seems an ordi rary day's occurrenca to have shot and shU dropping all around you. Wo have Just sunk several of the German de stioyers and cruisers. This bhlp sank two a destroyer and a cruiser. Tho de stroyer we sunk with a gunfire, but wc torpedoed the cruiser. "Just as we were finishing the en vawwient five of our battle cruisers came up and signaled to us to get out of their way. They put me In mind of five big policemen telling a crowd of boys to go away after giving n crowd of boys and men a good hiding." A Coldstream guardsman, writlns of the fighting near tho forest of L'omplegno, compares the sight of the Germans issu ing fmm the trees to a cup final crowd at the C'rs til Palace. "You couldn't miss them. Our bullets plowtd into them, but still they came for us. I was well entrenched and my rifle got so hot I could hnrdly hold It. I win wondering If I should havu enough bullets when a pal shouted, 'Up, Guards, and at 'em.' Tho next second he was roljed ovor with a nasty knock on the s-houlder He jumped up and hls'-ed. 'Let ine Bet at them.' Hla language was bit stronger than that." ADMIRAL SKRIDL0FF HELD IN GERMAN PRISON-CAMP Russian Officer Failed to Escape lie fore Outbreak of War. I-KTHOOHAn, Oct. s. Admiral Skrldloff, of the Russian navy. f J3 bten arretted in Germany, along with a number of other ptomlnent itus duns, who were in that country when war broke out. Word was received here today that Ad miral Skridloff was placed In Jail, where In was confined for some time, after Mch Ich he was transferred to a military detention camp, eight hours' ride from Uerlin, where he in still held. The Russian Government la trying to obtain hi release. CANADIANS REACH ENGLAND Fresb 0?roops Will Be Seat to Srain. iaer Camp, UmoX. (M. i - it is announced that the Canadian military contingent has ar rived in Kngland These troops will be sent t" a camp pivUously selected to complete their training. Colonel Victor A. Williams, adjutant general of the Canadian militia, was in command ot the contingent until tt reached England. It has now been taken over by the War Department, Colonel A. J. C'reeliuan, of Montreal, 1 in command of the artillery. The thips carrying the contingent to England were headed by the liner Fran coni.i, which carried the staff officers. The second boat was the Lapland. DELAWARE CANAL PROJECT Senate Wants to Know What Fur cbase of Waterway Would &mt, WASHINGTON. Oct. S.-A resolution a adopted by the Senate today re questing the Secretary of War to ascer tain the prio for which tho Chetaiieake end Idawre Canal can be purchased and also to summarise, for the us of the Senate, alt previous reports mad uy the department upon this canal. Sen ator Saulabury, of Pslaware, offered tho resolution. Before the rivers and harbors till, re cently enacted into law, was cut to the bone in the Senate, it carried an Item of &,W,m for tha purchase of thbg canal by the Government. ADVANCE IN FRENCII RENTES IiORfiKAl X o t 8 Frtr i h 3 p-r cent rntB tifi.it. i.jlv.,, t-rt I.. 77 irimffi nnd 26 ienttrm-s, tho htghest pUnt since tho war bidaa. I TSING-TAO QUAVERS AS JAPANESE SEIZE OUTER DEFENSE LINE Garrison's Fire Lessens, Showing Shortage of Am munition Food Also Scarce Three H arbor Forts Taken. rfiictN', Oct. s. The Japanese continue their bombard incut of tho Klao-Chau formications and are reported hero lo ho In possession of the outer chain of Tslng-Tno foMlflca tlon.i. The licet continues to co-operate with the land forces and, according to a statement by the Japanese Legation, three of tho harbor forts have been de molished. It la expected that another formal de mand for the suricmler of Urn concession will bo made by the end of this week. It Is believed that the garrison must bo run ning short of both food and ammuni tion, but up to the present time all sug gestions of surrender hnvo beon sternly t ejected by the commandant, who Insists that he and bin men will perish at their posts, The Japanese legation announced today that several of tho Cicrman batteries nt Tslng-T.to had been silenced bj the Anglo-Japanese bombardment. The state ment said: The fall of Tslng-Tao Is only a mat ter of time. Tho garrison Is slioit of food nnd repoits that tho soldiers are on the Verge of mutiny nre per sistent. Tho Japanese Legation says that siege guns are now ready to attack Tslng-Tao. The German garrison will bo summoned to surrender and opportunity will bo given non-combatants to leave. A Japaneso force litis occupied the sta tions of the Shantung Itnllway at Tslnan, tho western terminus of the German owned road. They aro preparing to re open the line for trafllc. Immediately after receiving this Intel ligence tho Chinese Foreign Ministry de livered another protest to tho Japanese Legation, demanding that the Japanese troops withdraw and asking for n. reply. Despite tho ultlmatum-llko charnctor of the Chlneeo noto, It Is admitted Hint China docs not Intend to tight. At tho solicitation of tho Government, which feared further complications, the Germans hnvo not dynamited bridges as they threatoned to do unless China com pelled tho Japanese to withdraw from tho railway. According to a German news ngoncy dispatch, Japanese forces have occupied the Island of Yap, the most Important Island ln tho Carollno group, or New Philippines, in tho Pacific Ocean. Tho Ctirollno Islands nre east of tho Philippines. Tho group Is very extended and eomprUeH about fi-M) small Islands. Yap Is about 1000 miles from the Island of Mindanao, one of the Philippine giuup The Carollno Islnnds wero sold by Spain to Germaay ln 1S03. TOKIO, Oct. 8. The Wnr Office declares that the gen oral situation at Klao-Chau, whore tho combined British-Japanese uxpendltlon is operating against the German concession, Fhows material Improvement. The Ger man artillery fire has appreciably les sened, indicating that ammunition is get ting short. Tho Germans have also lost two of their aeroplanes, which have hecn shot down by the Japanese while recon noiterlng over the land forces. In ad dition, the enptive balloon from which the Germans directed their the was put out of business when a shell cut tho rope holding It to the ground. It is not believed hero that tho Ger mans can hope to hold out more than another week or toil days. They are reporUd short of supplies of ail sorts, and their losses ln hilled and wounded aro said to bo very large. Because of this belief the Japanese and British commanders-in-chief have refused to attempt any frontal opvratluns, nlthough It Is believed it would not be a difficult Unk to tnke tho foits by storm But tl.e Japanese General Staff it. desirous of rupturing the riinciiston with tho least possible lobs and so U enntlr.uing slefe operations. BRITISH DREADNOUGHTS MAY DEFEND ANTWERP Belgian Embassy Informed of Capitol Move to Ostend. WASHINGTON. Oct. S.-Thu Belgian legation received a brluf cablegram from its Fort'sn office today, unnounung that tho Belgian Governtnpnt had been re moved from Antwerp to Usttnd. At the British embassy tho impression prevails that In cane of a German attach on ostund the Belgian Government might be tranfcft-rrtd across the Channel to Eng. bind, or that a British naval forte mlaht i.ndirtake to prutfet the town against a Herman force on land. .Since the Oriman hY-et is honied up at Kiel und Heligoland, it is cons!dt-rid possible that British war ships mar rw be Matioued off o.-tend in sufficient urength to discourage a Ger man raid against the town. GERMAN WRITES FROM FIELD i mm Former Philadelphia!! Drafted Two Days After trailing in Hamburg. Alfr. d Ginbburg, formerly of HIS North Brmd street, hu readied his home in Hambuig two days before war was de clared, and was promptly drafted for the army, has written Mrs. Mary Needles. 115 North Broad street, sending regards frwn the field and enclosing his photo graj.h. Ginibmg, who lived in Philadelphia seven years, decided In July to return home to Germany. He reached Hamburg on July 30. and two days later inobllliu tlon was begun. He was drafted imme diately. The photograph, made In Cux haubtn. shows him standing In uniform With corporals of the 19th corps. The ior pora,ls carry placards with the worda: "World War, 19H." Beside the picture Qinsburg has written: "All the corporals send regards from the field." CROSS EOR CZAR'S GENERAL HOME. Oct 8.-A dispatch from I'etro srad says that tho Czar has c,fnri the Grand Cross of St Octree on tho Grand Duke Nicno'as ana ixxma Generals I iamouchltovltch ard Danow, .' s.mi i " , -s- - - jj--"- " i " in i r m, ' 8, 1914. CONVENT NEAR BRUSSELS WRECKED, DECLARES NUN Sisters Remained to Protect Property Until Shells Hit Buildings. LONDON, Oct. S. Sister Mary McLaughlin, an Augustin Inn nun whoso homo Is nt Sknncnteles, N. T., arrived in London with several hun dred other refugees from tho district nbout Antwerp, llepresonliillvcs of tho Women's Hellef Commlllro mot her on her at rival ami ore making arrangements for her to sail for America on Saturday. sister Atari, with SO oilier slstcis of Ibe order, were compelled lo leavo the Flllo do Alarlo Convent nt Wlllebtock, r.fl miles north of Antwerp, by the bombard ment of tho fort there mi September 29. Sho said: "Wo stayed at the convent as long as possible to protect the property, but tho school was near tho fort, and shells struck our chapel and other buildings, shattering windows nnd wrecking tho roofs, nrlven out wo made our way north to Boom, two miles away." BATTLEFIELD MASS SUNG AS WAR GUNS SHRIEKRESPONSES Altar Is Surgeon's Tabic, Vases of Exploded Shells, With Artillery Roar as Accompaniment. FAMS. Oct. S. With a surgeon's tablo as an altar, a sheet from the hospital ns nn altar cloth nnd llowcrs In vases" which wore bases of exploded German shells, a military chaplain recently celebrated mass on tho battlefield. A priest, serving as a cor poral, assisted tho chaplain in meeting tho request of many wounded soldiers. The mass was said to grim music. Sholls slukked above tho worshipcis and ex ploded with terrific detonations. All about was tl'e clamor of battle. Priests and congregations were near to death every moment, but the service continued until Its eloo calmly and lininteriuptcdly. CRUISERS HAD TO FIGHT TO ENTER DARDANELLES Now Yorker Describes Battered Goeben and Breslnu. NT.W YORK. Oct. "'.That tho German cruisers Goeben and Breslau were en gaged by wnr.shlps of the Allies before they escaped Into ibe Dardanelles Is In dicated by news brought here today by A llllani J. Sauter, of Schenectady, X. V. Mr. Pauter said that while ho was In Turkev be saw the two cruisers In the S,-a ot Marmora and that both wero bad ly damaged. Their crews havo been made Turkish cltizi-ns he asserted. This was a defiance of the Allls' demand that the German sailors bo deported. BAVARIAN COMMANDER KILLED LEADING TROOPS Major General Zellmnn Killed Pub lisher and Physician Honored. m:m,ix, Oct. a. In the Ht of casualties posted today appears the name of Ala lor General Au gustus Zel'.man. eonjm.inder ot the Sec ond Bavarian Tiold Artillery, who was killed In nit Ion leading his troops more than n week ago. ltudnlph I'lldtelii, the publisher, who Is serving with a volunteer auto corps, nnd Ir. Adnlph von Flo.-ckner have beun created Knights of the Iron Cioss for conhplcumis service. Both are known in the I'r.lted States. HOUR OF VICTORY AT HAND. PRESIDENT PQINCARE THINKS Allies' Position Satisfactory, He Says on Return From Front. PARIS. Oct. 8 President Polnenre, upon bis arrival here fiom the front, visited the head quarters of General G.iUieui, miUtuiy governor of Paris. "I nm highly pleased with mv visit to the front," s.ild the French President. "It has shown me that mir pimitions are entirely satisfactory. Vntnrv l now only a matter of time. Both General Joffr'e and Gnrral French nro , lat.-d at the pnspect Wo all be)j, ve tiic hour of victory is at hand " LEGION OF HONOR GIVEN VICTOR IN AIR DUEL Trench Aviator's Bleclmn'clan Also Decorated, for Bravery, PARIS, Oct. s. The ribbon of th legion of Honor has been conferred upmi Sejeant IVunta, who, with his mechanician. M, guenalt, won a thrilling air battle, from the Ger mans in plain view of the Al'bd armv. The French and British soldiers wn, m excited at the air duel that they jumped from their trenches and stood .posed m tho Geiman shells until the German 'plane was brought to earth. Qui nalt was given a roJol equivalent to the Vlc tlria, Cross. GOLD BEARER ARRESTED German Caught Trying to Pass Aus trinn Frontier, ROMi:. Oct S-A u.rman hns bten ar rested in attempting tu pos the Austrian ir.'titui-, bearing half a million francs in gold Miii h i-o'-ieey Is being maintained re tarding tut arreat, 1 BLANKS I fgm 1 rtV hff I ifSStl I IPS 1 nliniaF I Luncheons 50c ill from 11 tu .': In our nilun e'l-n- It fll lenfunt fur ihuppsrs TU maim is n-aauiiatlo ai.d ibe, ei,n.o j.ruiuiil ! i n eiud atie-mlte m I 1024-26 Chestnut Street 1 1 lor Ues I ream lets, t ukf A I 1'ustrj M i r" t. , ,t cjs B I. win le.i i - - - rEjg'-jj'aigEUjraiO' 111 1 leHIISjgrlll I rmf'9i s r "-bot i"i4 0wiirnTirviBikBtiaHiii FRENCH NIGHT DASH AIDS LILLE DEFENSE IN REPULSE OF FOES Garrison Succored by Night Dash and German sCavalry Loses 2000 in Three Days' Storming, OSTKXIl, Ott. S fierce fighting hns been In Pf0gree3 for three days nround Lille. Iteports received here state Hint the German cavalry have lost 3)00 men In an attempt to tako Lille, but havo thus far been unsuccessful. Tho French succeeded in gelling a largo force Into that town by a night dash, and have held It against every attack. Tho Germans have occupied the region nbout Turcoltig nnd Iloubalx (north of Lille). They have brought up large forces of Infantry, which nro moving behind a screen of cavalry numbering at least :o,ftio. Thrso cavalry forcca ostend ns far as Yprc. tleports received hero state that large reinforcements hnVc arrived nt Antwerp ntid are aiding the Belgians. The belief Is expressed bv Belgian officials that thli will enable Antwerp to maintain Its teslstance. GERMAN TRENCH DYNAMITED BY BRITISH, SAYS REPORT Deep Tunnels Were Dug Under Re doubt, Paris Hears. PARIS, Oct. R. Another severe reverse for the Ger mans Is reported from Solssons, where the British me eald to have undermined a Gei man trench. Pynamlto mines were exploded and the trench was destroyed with the loss of from 100 to D0O German soldiers. Tho report, which has reached Pails, gives tho following detnllB: "Tho Germans weio so strongly In trenched lb.it the French and British had been unable to dislodge them. Attack nftcr attack was made, but the rifles and machine gun fire of the Invaders mowed down the soldiers of the coalition forces. Finally French nnd Kngllsh soldiers dug Intreiichments several- hundred yards distant from the German lines. Fnder the direction of British engineeie, soldiers sot to work and dug deep tunnels under neath tho German earthworks. The tun nels were filled with dynamite with elec tric contacts so that It could bo ex ploded bv pressing a button. Tho French nnd HrltMi then retired nnd the charges were het off. Kvcry German In the trench was killed." ENGLISH BITTERNESS FOR GERMANS SHOWN IN LETTER Manchester Woman Tells of Hard ships Suffered Because of War. Indictments against the Germans, more serious that any which so far hava reached this country, aro contained in a letter fiom tin IJngllsh woman living nt Cheetham Hill, Manchester, to Miss Maude Wood, 1101 Powelton avenue, this city, received today. The writer not only gives a clear idea of the bitternes ex isting In all Kngllsh hearts against the Germans, but describes concisely the hardships homo by her and her towns people as a result of tho war. The letter In part leads: "Wo aro teiy badly hit by the war, as most of our business was done with Aus tria and Germany, but we all are doing what wo con to help thoso poor souls who are suffeilng through no fault of their own. but through the workings of a devil Incarnate that German fiend! Forgive me, but you little Know what awful things can happen. "You remember Florence Jackson? Well, a friends of hers had two daughteis at school In Belgium and she itho mother) has onlv just now been ablo to get them here and they both havo been outraged' Such awful things never would hnvo hap pened If the German soldiers did not receive their orders from their 'highly cultured' nfllcc rsi "We are expecting to bo commanded to take two or three territorials or con valescents, f don't know which. I will do mv bet for them. "I trust God will help the Allies to conquer the viper nnd put him wheie he nn never harm any one again." HEAVY ARTILLERY AIDS IN DEFENSE OF ANTWERP Reinforcements Join Belgians to Savo Besieged City. bO.NlKI.V, Oct. 8. Heavy reinforcements of men und nrtll Jery have leached the bctdi-grd gurrison of Antwerp eeiecv as to the identity of these tioops Is being maintained at the War utllce. The nflli lul refused this Ufti I liiiou tei ilitciihs the tnattfi. 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