10 COUNI BERIiISTORFF UPBRAIDS ENGLAND Brought in "Yellow Peril" to Tighten Hold on Pacific, He Says New York, Aug. 25.—A sturdy right flst cracked into an equally sturdy left palm like the rattle of a rapid fire gun as Count Johann von Bernstorff, Ger man Ambassador to the United States, expounded his views yesterday after noon on the European war. "The Germans want only peace," he said, "but, mind you, peace will only come If they are victorious. If the Americans hope for a speedy termina tion of the war they should hope that Germany should win quickly, for in this way only can the hostilities cease. "The Germans won't yield. They are fighting for their very existance, and every man, woman and child would prefer to die than yield. The issue is Pan-Slavism, and Germany under stands that they might as well be kill ed fighting for their own as to be crushed." And the ambassador left no doubt in his hearers' minds that he believes there is no possibility of the Germans losing the tremendous tight. Fighting For Very Lives "There are two great nations, Aus tria and Germany, of undivided be lief in the right of their cause, fighting for their very lives. You can see how strongly they will defend themselves. "Against them are three great coun tries. Russia won't put 1,000,000 men on the German-Russian frontier, Fin land and Poland are on the verge of revolt, and the Czar cannot remove his troops from those countries. And un less the Germans conquer France very coon I will be surprised. "We ask the American people to wait until they get the full news of the war before they deliver judgment. I know that all the news printed in the American newspapers comes from French and English sources, and of course the papers have to print what they can get. "The cables to America, were cut by the British. What reason could they have had for this except to hope that the American people would be in fluenced by the dearth of news from Germany? Military operations would not be conducted from America, and a cable from Germany to a neutral country could not hurt England. The only possible reason for cutting that cable was to influence the American public. "A good deal of information that has been spread broadcast here is false. Many Americans believe that Germany started the war. That is absolutely false. The war was caused by Pan-Slavism. Couldn't Permit Mobilization "The Czar began to mobilize his army while matters between Austria and Servia were being adjusted, and Germany could not permit that with out getting ready to protect herself. "We knew that England would sup port France, which in turn would sup port Russia. France would not have declared war so soon if England had not promised to support her. The French fleet was in the Mediterranean and at the time France declared war the north coast of France was exposed to the German fleet. France would have waited had the English fleet not been ready to defend the French northern coast. "We didn't foresee, however, that England would invite the yellow peril to participate in the war and tighten its hold on the Pacific ocean." The Count referred to the Japanese several times and consistently spoke of them as the "yellow peril." • ©®<b TOA? DS | 1 \ I V?o£°-Z*ZJ?n i ~ (w£LM / Jf/r^ /yyp\ I -J r , t-n *" fy THtyoo/v'r Qgj | & ( 7-hat ~ I |- — /// ! H/ * a '^ £ —s. /"" t l*/OA*O£.R **HY ( lEnRY-CO-ftOUfi/D.'j // j wcE maj* /> /o atT 1 \ ". ''' pi ————^mmm——^mm^m— -Wl— . ' B *• r • , ■ t,on ■ , C*rt«o«l C«. ft. Y. TUESDAY EVENING. Heavy Cannon Dragged Across Bridge of Dead By Associated Press London, Aug. 25, 4.10 A. M. —The correspondent of the Daily Mall de scribes a visit among the French who wore wounded in the battles of the Vosgee and have been brought to Vichy, whose palatial hotels have been transformed Into hospitals. "I talked with many of these wounded." he said. "Three men who fought side by said said: 'lt is prob ably our own fault that we are here. Our major fell at the first volley and then all the other officers at succeed ing volleys. When we found our selves without officers we, not bother ing about what was going on at the front, rear or iiank, fixed bayonets at 1,200 yards and went at them, singing all the way. We were just fifty yards from the enemy when we were downed.' "On an adjoining cot was a sturdy peasant who, told me this story: " 'At Cirey a shell fell on my knap sack, sending me scrawling face down ward. I didn't stir, expecting every moment to be blown to atoms. After what seemed a half hour, seeing that the shell had not exploded. I hunched up my shoulder and the shell gently rolled off. It is a pity it was so big, as otherwise I should have brought It back as a trinket for my sweetheart.' "A wounded artilleryman contri buted the following experience: "'I witnessed one horrible scene. The Germans were shooting from the deep trenches among which our ar tillery was doing terrible work. But as fast as a German dropped a fresh man took his place until bodies of the Germans were on a level with the earthworks. At this moment a Ger man battery was ordered to advance. The heavy wheels sank in the trench, but the drivers furiously lashed their horses, and finally dragged the guns across the human bridge'." Embassies in Tokio Fly Japanese Flags By Associated Press Tokio, Aug. 25, 10 A. M. —The Brit ish, Russian and French embassies are flying the Japanese flag as sym bolic of the alliance. Vice-Admiral Tomosaburo Kato has been appointed commander-in-chief of the first squadron; Vice-Admiral Sada kichi, commander of the second squad ron, find Rear Admiral Tsuchiya, com mander of the third squadron. Contradictory reports are in circu lation of a battle between British and German warships, but there has been no confirmation. The German ambassador. Count von Rex, and his staff are completing ar rangements for sailing on the steamer Minnesota for Seattle. The emperor has ordered the sus pension of national mourning on Au gust 29. Emperor Orders Capital Pat in State of Defense By Associated Press Paris. Aug. 25, 5.05 A. M.—A dispatch from Rome says that a message from Vienna states that Emperor Francis Joseph has signed a decree ordering the capital to be put in a state of de fense. Travelers from Trieste state that the Austrians are concentrating for the de fense of the Adriatic at Rola and Sev enleco. The population of the latter have been sent inland. All the Aus trian fleet has been assembled in the Fasenda canal at Pola. BOY'S FOOT C'RIFSHKD The right foot of Robert Moyer. aged eight years, 1213 Green street, was crushed yesterday when a road roller passed over it while he was standing along the curb at JForster and Green streets. He was taken to the Harris burg Hospital, where several toes were amputated. WALL WORK RESUMES i IS HER RECEDES; Contractors Complain That River, Bank It Used as Public j Dumping Grounds With the river fast receding to the low water line it !? expected that the | Stucker Brothers Construction Company > will resume work on the Improvements! with renewed vigor. There has been! a good deal of halting on tile stretch, between Walnut street and the pump ing station, but beyond that point con-; siderable headway has been made this summer. Owing to the suspension of operations since the rains last week It Is likely thai large forces of men will , be immediately engaged so that the fill ing in behind the wall and the puddling of the same shall go forward and there ; may be no delay In the construction of the granolithic sidewalk. The contractors complain with rea son of the absolute indifference of the property owners and others to the fre quent protests against the use of the river hank as a public dumping ground for tree lops and all kinds of refuse.) Even the park employes themselves have been guilty of this sort of thing and In the old section south of the pumping station may he found many j dead tree branches among the shrub bery of the slope. It Is intimated that arrests will follow unless this practice ceases. Cardinals in Rome Are Preparing For Election of Pope By Associated Press Rome, Aug. 25.—1n preparation for \ the approaching conclave to elect a successor to Pope Plus X, the print-: ing bureau of the Vatican is getting' out maps which are to be distributed I to the cardinals, showing each one! where his apartments are to he lo cated. Owing to their feebleness, several of i the cardinals will be permitted to) occupy rooms in the rear of the Sis-1 tine Chapel. As they must go to the' chapel twice daily to cast their bal-j lots, tl-» locations will avoid the neces sity of their climbing stairs. Other cardinals have been notified i that they may celebrate mass in their own rooms, thus avoiding the fatigue of going every morning to the Pauline Chapel. For these cardinals special small wooden' altars are to be pro vided. The hope is entertained here that the American cardinals. Farley of New York, Gibbons of Baltimore, and O'Connell of Boston will succeed in reaching Rome in time for the con clave. It is felt that as they are out side the Influences of the European war they will be able to bring an im partial view .to the election of the new Pope. The fifth congregation of cardinals was held to-day in the consistorial hall. MII.ITIA MAY BE CALLED By Associated Press Trenton, N. J.. Aug. 25. A strike of machinists for higher wages and shorter hours has partly closed the John A. Foebling's Sons Wire Mills and the Mercer Automobile Works, which they control, and there have been reports of disorder. Governor Fielder to-day said he would call out" the militia to preserve order In this city and vicinity unless strike condi tions improve. 1.0513S APPENDIX Roy Paden. aged 20 years, of New Cumberland, underwent an operation for appendicitis at the Harrlsburg Hos- i pital, this morning. ' PARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Big Trade Increase in South America Special to The Telegraph New York, Aug. 25. —Inquiries from j the Latin American countries for | United States products, it was esti mated yesterday, will be much greater this week than last. Accounts re , ceived in this city by exporters and in Washington by the Consular Bu reau of the State Department indicate that the need for American products is becoming more pressing and that merchants and other businessmen in j South American countries are becom ing more insistent in asking that something be done to help them. , It Is expected that this week will see developments in New York toward increasing the shipment of goods. I With the National City Bank perfect i ing arrangements for exchange be -1 tween this country and the Latin American countries greater facility will be offered to Importers in those , countries and exporters here In mak ing satisfactory barters in goods. Dr. R. S. Naon, Argentine Minister ! to this country, who is in this city act ing as financial agent of his country, 'said yesterday that on Friday and Sat urday he had received large amounts of money lor transfer to Argentina. Many American importers are buying many articles in Argentina, thus cre ating exchange here In favor of that country. Big Trade Increase Kxpectcd The result will be that many more orders will be received here for Amer ican finished products. Many inqui ries hate been received by the Steel Corporation In Pittsburgh for steel | products. It is likely that the South j American countries will be obliged, I for a time, at least, to buy all their j railroad supplies from this country in stead of from England and Germany. That trade will help take the place lof trade now cut off with European countries. Latin American Consuls have tele- I graphed to fhe State Department re -1 ports as to the Immediate necessities |of the various cities they represent. 4 Regiments Completely i Wiped Out; Enemy Pursued i London, Aug 25. 4:sft A. M. The | Nish correspondent of neuter's Tele gram Compnry, telegraphs: I "After the great victory by our army our forces art- vigorously pursuing the enemy along the whole of their front, j The latter made no resistance, but fled j with the greatest haste. I "The enemy's casualties were enorm -1 ous. According to the information ob tained up to the present, the Twenty first. the Eleventh, the One Hundred and Second and the Twenty-eighth regi ments were completely wiped out. The commander of the Twenty-eighth was captured. The commander of the | Twenty-first Division of Infantry, of the Landwehr. was killed. Charleroi in Flames After Bombardment London, Aug. 25. 3.35 A ,M.—A dis patch to the Daily News from Paris, says that the Germans bombarded Charleroi between noon and 2 o'clock Saturday. They came into the town by way of the left bank of the Sambre river. That same eevning French troops arrived but as the Germans kept up a Are from the houses in the lower part of the town, the French were forced to bombard it and that portion of the place was soon in flames. On the same day the Germans set fire to a whole series of outlying villages, destroying Marchiennes, Monceau-Cur- Sambre, Anderlues and Chaelet. TYPOTHKTAK ORGANIZE Organization of a Harrisburg branch of the Typothetae of America was completed last night with the election of Elmer McCormick, president; Harry J. Kurzenknabe, first vice-pre sident! Arthur Wilson, second vice president; A. Reeder Ferriday, secre 'tary; and J. Wungesser, treasurer. MISS FOX LOST HER PIRIY 111 GERMANY Nearly AH Americans in Hysterics, Says American Consul at Amsterdam Among the passengers who arrived | in New York yesterday morning on the Holland-American line steamship Noordam, sailing under American col ors, were Miss May Fox. 129 Walnut street, and Dr. and Mrs. George B. Kunkel and son Lewis, of 118 Locust street. Dr. Kunkel and family stayed over in New York and will arrive here to-morrow. He was particularly for tunate In securing passage on the Noordam and it was only five minutes before the vessel sailed that he learn ed that he would be able to secure transportation on this boat. Miss Fox, who arrived here yester day from New York, sailed along with a party of friends on June 18. The party were in Lucerne, Switzerland when the news of the war was first heard. They went then to Dresden, Germany, and upon arriving there learned of the seriousness of the situa tion. Advised to go to Berlin, they reached the capital the following Sun day. At this point the party were com pelled to unload their own baggage from the train. Subsequently all the trunks were lost, although the bag gage was intact upon leaving Berlin. During the ride from Berlin to Am sterdam, Miss Fox became separated from the party and it was only after a lengthy search that she was able to locate them. The party spent ten days In Amsterdam. Consul Murphy at this city congratulated all upon keeping their nerve and said that of the 1,000 visitors who had thronged his office, nearly all were on the verge of hysteria. Among those in the party with which Miss Fox made the voyage and re turned was Mrs. Elizabeth Graybill, of Philadelphia, who came to this city with Miss Fox to visit her brother, E. Z. Wallower, of 2101 North Front street. Cost of Killing Soldier in War Put at $15,000 Special to The Telegraph New York, Aug. 25.—Writing in La Science and La Vic, General Percln, of the French army, figures the cost of killing a man by modern warfare. This is obtained by dividing the total oost of a war to any of the belliger ents by the number of men killed on the other side. In 1879-1871 France spent $400,- 000,000 in the actual expenses of the war. Repairing materials and giv ing succor to the victims of the war, expenses that are justly to be added, cost another $200,000,000. France paid $1,000,000,000 as war indemnity, plus another $400,000,000 in interest on the sum, loss of revenue, forced contributions by the enemy and up keep of the German army of occupa tion. This third category of expenses not being inevitable in all wars, cannot properly be included. *4,»O(M>OO PAID BY BRUSSELS By Associated Press London, Aug. 25. 5 A. M. A dis patch to the Times from Flushing says $4,000,000 towards the war indemnity of $40,000,000 demanded of the city of Brussels by the Germans, already has been paid off. It is reported that the Germans in Brussels blew up a tram way station because the directors of the street railway refused to grant cer tain requirements. AUGUST 25, 1914. Japan, as Nemesis, "Advises" Germany to Vacate Far East Special to The Telegraph New York, Aug. 25. Japan "Ad vised" Germany a little more than a week ago to relinquish her possessions in China In order that peace might be maintained in the Orient. In 181)5, Germany advised that Japan relinquish her claims In China tnat peace might be maintained in the Ori ent. Japan never forgave Germany for the part the Kaiser's Government took in the peace agreements following the Chino-Japanese War. Germany is given credit for the "advice" that Japan va cate Its claims to the Liiaotung Penin sula. As a sort of Nemesis. Japan now of fers similar "advice" to Germany to re linquish its claim in Kiao-Chow. This advice was followed with a declaration of war. In 1895 Japan was unable to meet the advice of the Powers with a declaration of war. Both diplomatic messages avow in most solemn terms that their "advice" is given for the sake of peace In the Orient. German Forces Resume Offensive Movement By Associated Press Paris, Aug. 25, 3.05 P. M.—The fol lowing official announcement was made here to-day: •"The German offensive movement in the north, which was stopped yester day, appears to-day to have been re sumed. "The enemy is, however, being held hack by a French army acting in con junction with an English army and a Belgian army. "The armies of the allies surprised the enemy and drove back their ad vance detachments. The allies have gone beyond Malines. "The Belgian army came from Ant werp. "In Lorraine, after the counter at tacks of yesterday, the right of the French forces irtthdrew to the river Mortagne, which is a continuation of the Meurthe, from Luneville to Muncy. "In Alsace French troops repulsed a number of German attacks directed against Colmar. "The report of the recapture of Muelhausen by the Germans is with out foundation. Moreover, the the ater of operations in Alsace is becom ing of secondary Importance." Glynn Urges Capital and Labor to Join Hands Schenectady, N. Y., Aug. 25. Gov ernor Martin H. Glynn, of New York, in an address to-day before the annual convention of the New York State Fed eration of Labor, declared in referring to the effect of the European war on this country, that it was time for capi tal and labor to forget their differences and that every class should "unite to meet the great emergency and the greater responsibility confronting the nation." "To-day the welfare of the world," he said, "Is In the hands of the American worker. To-day civilization's sole hope lies In the spirit and energy of those who labor In America's industries. To day the manhood of America guards the gates of peace to keep the world from famine and to preserve for all mankind the accumulated achievements of centuaries of endeavor." Arrirt Pastor** Resignation. At a congregational meeting in Olivet Pres bvterian Church, last evening, the Rev. Francis H. Laird read his resignatiftn, which was refused, and then, following his insistance, was accepted by the con gregation, and resolutions expressing esteem for and confidence in the re tiring pastor were read. The resigna tion will take effect September 27. The Rev. C. H. Segelken, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, of Steelton. and moderator of the Carlisle Presbytery, presided. A special meeting of the Presbytery will take place next Mon day in Olivet Church. M'ADOO DISAPPROVES LATESTJIPOSJILS Discusses Plan For Valorization of Crops Because of Euro- * pean War By Associated Press Washington, D. C„ Aug. 2 s.—Sec retary McAdoo emphatically disap proved proposals for valorization of crops because of thee European war at to-day's conference of cotton and to bacco growers. He appealed to the conference "to get down to a practical basis." "Any issue of currency by state baiks is utterly unnecessary," said Secretary McAdoo, "and it is a waste of time to talk about it. Enough na tional bank currency is authorized by present law to handle the cotton and all the other crops in the country. There is authorization in law for enough currency to wreck the whole country. The Secret; ry of the Treas ury has wide discretion in the issue of this currency. I intend to see that all currency issued is safe because I tell you, gentlemen, that you cannot do anything worse than to inflate the currency to a point where you will wreck the credit of the country." Seretary McAdoo added that the valorization plan was impracticable and that the valorization of cotton would mean a demand for valorization of every other product affected by the European war. "This cataclysm in Europe," ho said, "has caused a recoil in all busi ness in this country. It is folly to say that nobody will he hurt. Our busi ness here is not to say that no one will be hurt. Our business is to help everybody to meet the situation as best they can." Under the emergency currency act. Secretary McAdoo said, he would ac cept properly safeguarded cotton warehouse receipts as 70 per cent, se curity for the issue of currency. Papa Wilhelm Confers Iron Cross on Crown Prince Frederick William By Associated Press Berlin, Aug. 25, via Copenhagen and London, 4.23 P. M.—Emperor William has conferred the decoration of the Iron Cross of the Second and First Class on Crown Prince Freder ick William and Duke Albrecht of Wuerttemberg. He has also conferred the Iron Cross decoration of the second class on his son. Prince Oskar. His majesty has sent the following telegram to the Crown Prince: "I thank thee with all my heart, dear child; I rejoice with thee over the first victory of Wilhelm. God has been on his side and has most bril liantly supported him. To him be thanks and honor. I permit to Wil helm the Iron Cross of the Second and First Class. "Oskar also fought brilliantly with his granadiers. He has received the Iron Cross of the Second Class. Re peat that to Ina and Marie. God protect and succor my boys. Also In the future God be with thee and g wives. <- ■ "PAPA WILHELM" SHAIIP DROP IX TEMPERATURE By Associated Press Detroit, Aug. 25. The sharp drop In temperature which Michigan 'ex perienced yesterday continued to-day. Tlu" local temperature early to-day was ts degrees, the lowest mark for August 25 in Detroit In forty-two years. Light frosts were reported at Saginaw and other cities this morning.
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