! i mi "nmmmvfmfm - in pwmiiu41ui 1 1 . mmmmmommmmmmm ) M- ?JB h: m HI i.- I h m ' 4- tf&J ; .T fl s. ! 3i' K: 3 ,"rr GERMAN RESERVES CHARGE AS ALLIES FIGHT WAY TO S E A tontlnnrd from rge One irinofflcial reports, the Germans have secured a foothold on the const, at Blankenberghe, about 12 miles cast of fOstend. German cavalry In utrong numbers Is reported from that district. The 3tth day of this record shatter- Jn engagement finds the battle front nearly 300 miles long and still the main lines of-both armies remain Intact. The Germans are pushing -1th fever !sh energy every advantage gained nt ''Antwerp. They are throwing Into the field 'every element of force at the com 'mand of tho German General Staff. The Invaders are reported to be rush ing 90,000 Landwehr resorvlsts to tho -.Western front, but these citizen sol- 'dlers, who have been hastily equipped, .'lack the fighting qualities of the first UHLANS IN SIGHT AS LAST : SHIP SAILS FROM OSTEND LONDON, Oct. 16. While there Is no official Information regarding the situation In Belgium. It Is generally accepted that the Germans lhave occupied Ostend. When the last rboat left there yesterday the advance guard of the Uhlans was already In r sight. Communication has been Inter rupted, which would Indicate that tho Germans arc In the coast city. " Sleanwhlle It is reported here that Jheavy rain Is again falling over the entire Belgian-French theatre of war. This of itself naturally will slow up 'operations of the Allies, who avoided the German circling movement, Inas much as the roads have become diffi cult for travel In their terribly torn-up condition and the trenches filled with water. The Gefmans now are attempting a .new general advance. Advices from .the front confirm the earlier reports rthat- heavy reinforcements are being sent through Alx-la-Chapelle. It is accepted here that these troops com prise the first line of the new army, as .it was reported about ready to take ;jthe field. ' It is believed that the reinforcements will be required to hold the German positions. All of the Information ob tainable Indicates that there have been material changes In the general battle line as the result of gains by the Allies during the last few days. , Germany plans to mount her new est and" greatest guns alone the Bel RETREATS FOR STRATEGIC REASONS, STATES BERLIN BERLIN, Oct. 16, They are expected to compile a list of In an official statement Issued by the stores taken nnd also to make pub- the German General Staff today, the lie the contents of certain documents entire situation, both in the eastern , captured which throw great light on i and -western theatres of war. Is de- i scribed as excellent. So far as the situation In France Is concerned, It Is stated that at no point have the French succeeded in making any Im portant advances. Where the French have gained ground. It is stated to be at points where for strategical reasons the Ger mans have withdrawn. This was es pecially the case where trenches were abandoned for sanitary reasons and because they could not be drained. Doctor von Bethmann-Holweg, the Imperial Chancellor of the Cabinet, with a, number of the members of the Cabinet, are now In Antwerp arranging details for the government of the city. GERMANS HURLED i BACK FROM OUTER WORKS AT WARSAW Within Seven Miles of the City Fresh Russian Offen sive Drives Invaders to Their Bases at Lodz and 1 Kielce. PETROGRAD. Oct. I. The Germans have been checked In their advance on Warsaw and In Russian Po land, It was ofllciaJly announced today. It was also stated that the campaign against the Austrlans In Galicia, and the efforts to take the Austrian stronghold at Pnemysl are meeting wnn continued auocess, "After having advanced te within etven miles of Warsaw," says the statement. "the Germans were repulsed and driven back. They are now 30 miles from the city and heavy fighting Is going on with the advantage In our favor. "The fighting was most severe for two day. The Germans were cut In two, and retired to a line from Lodi to Pet trokow to Kielce. "The Russian troops are advancing steadily and all along tht battle line 'our troops have again taken the offens ive with every advantage In our favor. 'The German loss was heavy, many being killed and wounded, and we htsjnp taken 10,000 prisoners." (This report of Russian victory directly contradicts statements Isaued In Berlin that the German advance Into Russian Poland Is meeting with steady success and that the Russians were, falling back .before, the German advance. suffering cvvro iveaca iu iuc rcircavi V line soldiers, and their chief use prob ably will be the guarding of railway lines and prisoners. The chief evidence of the Allies' suc cess In the last four days has been the Increased number of prisoners from the North. The British and French are said to have tnken nearly 50,000 captives this week, most of whom are In very bad condition. Uoth General Joffre and Field Mar shal Sir John French report that the losses of the Allies In prisoners Is small. A mystery has developed regarding the llelglan army. No one In authority seems to know just where It Is. At Inst reports It was cither In Ostend or wns making Its way westward from Ostend toward the sheltering wing of General d'Amnde's forces. gian scacoast. "WMth them the Kalpcr hopes to force tho British fleet to stay far off shore. These guns already aro mounted on trains that wait Inside the Belgian border. They are ready on signal to be rushed to Ostend and other seacoast cities where, If past perform ances are any guide, the concrete bases on which they are to be set are con structed. But at the Admiralty It is declared that If the Germans take Ostend or any of the other Channel ports they will find It Impossible to hold tho cities or to mount their guns. Already tho Brit ish warships are established at ren dezvous where they can strike at n couple of hours' notlco. The British airmen have kept the General Staff posted on every new development by tho Germans. They have given timely warning of every movement of German troops to reinforce their line, and It was due to their excellent work that the British-Belgian forces were able to escape from Antwerp. They will be depended on to locate these guns and to furnish tho range, so that It will be Impossible for the Germans to mount them. Meanwhile there Is less apprehension here today over an Invasion of Eng land by the Germans than was In evi dence earlier In the week. The various newspapers bitterly rebuke the Times' military expert for his suggestions, and afllrm their belief that tho fleet will continue to furnish adequate protec tion to the English coast. Belgium s attitude In the war. The War Ofllce statement in dis cussing the operations on the eastern frontier, declares that at every point where the Russians essayed the In vasion of East Prussia they were re pulsed with enormous losses. The claim of the Russian General Staff that the Russians have captured German artillery is described ns a "lu dicrous falsehood." At no point, It Is stated, has Russia been able to main tain the offensive, but Is forced to rely on the defensive. Heavy reinforcements are being sent to the front. One report estimates the number of troops between 300,000 nnd 400,000. U S. TO PAY LEE'S WIDOW Comptroller Decides That Former Disloyalty Does Not Invalidate Claim. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16-Mrs. Ellen Bernard I.ee, widow of Brigadier General Fltzhugh Lee, will receive the H2S.58 lon gevity pay clue her husband, despite the , answer was given out by the War Office fact that he fought In tho Civil War as an ,odu. . officer In the army of the Confederate I . . , . . States, according to a decision by Comp- "n ,he afternoon of October 3 the troller of the Treasury Downey today. commander of the fortress at Przomysl Dfbplte the contention that Mrs, I.ee ' received through a messenger bearing a was not entitled to draw money due a I white flag a request to surrender at once former rebel, the Comptroller decided i "to prevent useless slaughter.' The de that the Revised Statutes permit her to i mand was signed by General Dimltrleff, draw the money, because General Le j the Bulgarian general, who Is leading served In the Spanish War volunteer the Russian army that moved Against army In 18SS. Przemysl. The decision also holds that the point "The commandant of the fortress re that Mrs. Lee was herself disloyal to the fused to dignify the demand with lh Union is unsound, because dlslojalty lengthy reply. He rejected It with a cannot legally be imputed to a minor. I short message." She was not of age during the struggle. The Austrian Ueneral Staff announces The Silk Stockings must match the fancy top of boot or shoe. This calls for in finite variety in tones of tan, biscuit, mode, pearl, gray as well as the more decided hues. Our hosiery stock is notably excellent in this service. Steideri0a Vf5? 1420 Chestnut St. "Whernly the but I good enough." EVENING- LEDGERPHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, OGTOBER BELGIANS DESTROYING THEIR HOMES NEAR ANTWERP SO AS NOT TO IMPEDE USE CZAR'S GUNS POUND AT PRZEMYSL FORTS; CITY IS IN DANGER Annihilation of 3000 Aus trians in Attempts to Es cape From Beleaguered Fortress. PETROGRAD, Oct. 16. Thp War Office has Issued the following statement concerning operations In Galicia: "Russian troops aro subjecting the Aus trian stronghold at Przomysl to a cease less bombardment. The Incessant Are of our troops Is having a demoralizing effect on the Austrian garrisons. Many of tho Austrlons are deserting and arriving daily at the Russian camp. "On Wednesday 3000 Auatrlans at tempted a sortie from the city. One of the Russian regiments, perceiving the movement, allowed the enemy to ap proach within easy range, and then opened (Ire on the Austrlans with mitrailleuses. The Austrlans were com pletely annihilated. "The reduction of the fortress Is only a question of days." (The Austrian olllclnl statement Issued nt Vienna claimed that tho Russian slog of nrzemyel had heen lifted; that th Russians had been driven back and thut tin- city was no longer In danger fiom bombardment.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. In a battle which Is still raging to the south of Pnsemysl, a column of Russians defeated the Austrlans and made 5(0 pris oners. Including sown officer, and cap tured somo machine guns. This informa tion was received today by Colonel Golo jeuakl, military attache tn the Russian Kmbasay. The dispatch follows: "In Knstern Prussia, on the Vistula, and on the San, the situation remains un changed. To the south of Pjzemysl the battle continues. One of our columns In flicted a defeat on the Austrlans, taking seven officers and EO0 men prisoners. Ma chine guns also were captured." PRZEMYSL COMMANDANT SCORNS DEMAND TO YIELD Sends Back Bearer of White Flag With Curt Befusal. VIENNA. Oct. 11. A Russian demand for the surrender of the Austrian fortress at Przemysl has been rejected. The following account of the Russian general's demand nnd Its w whim Iff rmrS that the fortified heights of Starasol, In Gnllcla, have been occupied. Austrian attacks against Styr and Sambor have also been successful. Austrian forces have also occupied tho heights southeast of Przemysl, north of tho River Strwlnz. Austrian forces arc slowly hut surely forcing tho Russians back through tho Carpathlnns, It Is announced, FRENCH APPROACH METZ; SIEGE EXPECTED SOON Strongest Fortresses in Germany Protect City. LONDON, Oct. 16. A nev3 agency dispatch from Paris says that the French are pressing toward Jletz from two directions and that they hope to lay siege to the city within a week. Metz Is surrounded by a circle of the strongest fortresses In the German Um pire. The advance guard of the French forces Is only about 12 miles from tho outer camps of Metz. It Is believed that the French have not guns of sufficient calibre .at the eastern front to attempt to reduce the Metz forts. MEXICAN WOMAN SHOT Had Taken Itefuge on American Soil During Fight nt Naco. NACO, Oct. It! A Mexican woman who had taken refuge on the United States side of the border was shot and seriously wounded early today during fighting be tween the Villa forcps under General Maytorona and Carranza adherents under General Benjamin Hill, ncor Naco, Sonora, Just over the line. Two shells fell upon American soil near United States troops, but failed to ex plode. EVERY AID TO COTTON FUND Washington Officials Working for Success of Undertaking. WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. "The report that the Federal Reserve Board has ex ptessed doubt of Its power to administer the proposed JlSO.OOO.OflO cotton fund if it should be raised Is entirely Incorrect," declared Secretary of the Treasury Me Adoo In a statement today. "The Federal Reserve Board and the Secretary of the Treasury are doing everything possible to help raise this fund and will lend every possible assistance In Its administration If the effort to se cure it Is successful. It cannot bo stated loo emphatically that the disposition of everybody here Is to do everything within the limits of human power to help the cotton situation." MURDERER DECLARED INSANE LONDON. Oct. 16. Found guilty of murdering his wife. Charles Henry Wes ton, formerly of Salem, MasB., was to day declared Insane and ordered com mitted to an asylum. Wefcton's wife was found In her home on September 22 with her throat cut. She lived long enough to say the wound was Inflicted by her husband. DaileyBams (arfi BIDDLE CO. . Sterling Silver The standard of mis House isperfection-in both design and workmanship. Magnitude of collection most Important "with consistent moderate prices. Chestnut Street SWISS VILLAGE SUFFERS FROM COMBATANTS' SHELLS French nnd Germans Again Waging Artillery Duels in Alsace. GENEVA. Oct. 16. During an artillery duel between Ger mans nnd French, near Pfetterhausen, In southern Alsace, ten shells fell upon Swiss soil, doing considerable damage In tho village of Largln, near Bonfel, ac cording to Information received here to day. In the fighting which occurred ycB terday tho Germans arc reported to hnvc lost between 600 and MO men. The casualties of the French are not known. JAPANESE SHIPS BATTER FORTRESSES AT TSING-TA0 British Aid in Bombardment One Seaman Killed. TOKIO, Oct. 16. It Is officially announced that both British and Japanese warships are bom barding the German forts at litis and Hul-Chan In the German leasehold of Klao-Chau. Bombs from aeroplanes havo destroyed part of the battorles at the forts. At tho tlmo official announcement was made one British seaman had been killed by tho German flra and two others wounded. PEKIN. Oct. 16. News has been received from Che-Foo, on the Shan Tung Peninsula, to the ef fect that all non-combatants, Including the United States Consul, aro leaving Tslng-Tao, the port of the German lease hold of Klao-Chau, which is under at tack by Japanese and British. Delegates representing the Japancso commander nnd the Gorman Governor General of Kalo-Cliau have arranged for the departure of German women and chil dren, who are already on their way to places of safety. AN ARMY UNDER GROUND German Trenches Subterranean Towns Where Thousands Live. LONDON, Oct. 16. Describing the German trenches O. Ward Price, writing In the Dally Mall, says they are very elaborate there trenches In which, for weeks at a time, the great host of tho German army bus been living like a gigantlo long-drawn-out warren of green-gray rabbits. "They are floored, many of them with cement," he says; "they are roofed over with boards covered with eods that serve both to keep out the rain and to hldo them from French or British aeroplanes; they are divided Into chambers, com municating by doors. There are of course, several lines of them. These rearward trenches are connected with the foremost line by rarallel passage ways, and there are other parallels In which machine guns are poeted to Are over the heads of the men that line the oarapet. "A whole semi-subterranean town, In fact, with main thoroughfares and side streets, and telephone wires running all along, where hundreds of thousands of men eat and live and sleep, and yet so well concealed that from e little way down the hill In front you see nothing to tell you of Its existence unless It were a hardly noticeable little bank of earth raised slightly abovo the surface of the ground." October Wedding Gifts 16, 1914. OF BIG DEFENSE GUNS BRITISH LOYALISTS ROUT BOER REBELS IN FIRST SKIRMISH Leaders of South African Revolution Arrested and Reports Say Disturbance Is Being Quelled. CAPE TOWN, Oct. II. The first encounter between the rebel lious Boers and the Loyalists has resulted In victory for the latter. A force of South African native troops, under tho command of Colonel Brltls, sent against the rebels, defeated a band of them and took 80 prisoners. Secret arrests of Boers nnd otliors sus pected of having nntl-Britlsh sympathies continue. Premier Botha reports that nil vestiges of rebellion nro being stamped out and that the nrmy Is loyal. A correspondent with Brigadier Ocncrnl I.uklns, lender of tho British forces sent against German Southwest Africa, sends the following report of operations: "Tho Germans have withdrawn Into tho Interior, lonvlng a belt about GO miles wide of sheer desert between our enmp and theirs. They hove polluted water holes. The week of October 10 waa marked by numerous sharp encounters between their patrols and ours. About half a dozen Germans were captured. "Vhe prisoners stated that a number of their wounded wero lying In tho hills dying of thurst. They feared to surrender because they had been warned that the British would execute them summarily. The British expeditionary force numbered 200 men, with two pieces of light artillery Olid two Maxims. The Gorman force consists of between 1500 and 30 men, with ten pieces and six Maxima. It In Impossible to give the enemy's Inw.ios, but the Impression Is that they have had about 25 killed." NUBSES ARRIVE AT VIENNA VIENNA. Oct. 16. Two detnehments of the American lied Cross have Just ar rived In Vienna. Onn proceeded to Hun gary, where fighting is In progress, and the other will remain here. iyrararKZg The biggest department stores in the country are using the L. B. (Automatic Index" method of filing. Ye, and many of the smaller stores In small cities are using it, too. They have installed the L. B, "Automatic Index" because it provides an automatic check against errors in filing. Then, too, it is wonderfully quick quick in! quick out I Some of these stores bought entirely new filing equipment cabinets, guide cards and folders. Others bought guide cards and folders only, using their old cabinets. Department stores particularly the credit departments need to be in a position to put their fingers on credit data, letters, etc., at a moment's notice. 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Against these forces more than 1,000,00 Russians aro under arms. "Tho battle Is expected to last forsev. oral weeks, but furious fighting Is al ready under way. The Germans hava suffered one reverse. On Tuesday th Russians encountered three or four Ger many nrmy corps between Warsaw and Ivangorod. The Germans were put to Might nnd left a number of guns and a quantity of munitions behind. The re treat was hindered by swampy ground, and tho Russians wero able to Inflict severe losses." Ludovlc Nnudcau, war correspondent of the Paris Journal, with tho left wing of the Russian army, telegraphs as follows; "Tho fighting In Galicia Is now of secondary Importance. All eyes ar turned to the great battle on tho Vistula. As I write a huge procession of prli oners nnd wounded is passing to tha rear. I am told that an engagement has boon fought near Ivangorod, a great Polish fortress, 70 tmllcs southeast of Warsaw. This may be considered the beginning of a battle which may last for many days. 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