| « r rUp, 3 o c f- Qhof" A War Story of Today by Frederick Palmer, Noted War Correspondent; a Startling
l- Prophecy of the conflict in Which Europe Is Now Engaged; in the Telegraph Tomorrow
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
I.XXXIII— No. 202
SERINS ENCOUNTER
UTILE RESISTANCE
'III TAKING HUH
Wire Entanglements, Electricity
and Broken Glass Useless
to Belgians
CHARLEROI, CITY OF DEAD
French Guns Battered Town and
Drove Germans Across
Sambre River
Special to The Telegraph
London. Aug. 26. 5 a.m.—The Paris
correspondent of the Times, who had
been on the battlefield earlier in the
fighting. says he met a few miles out
side of Philippeville, n Belgian officer
and the paymaster general of Namur,
who told him that the town of Namur
had been occupied by the Germans.
It had been subjected to a furious
bombardment and the German fire
was so well regulated that the first
shots had silenced Fort Marchovel
lette on the northeast and Fort
Maizeret on the east. • Fort Andoy
also suffered badly and was almost i
out of action.
The story continues:
"The Germans entered the town
without encountering much resis
tance. Fort Dave at the southeast of
the town and Fort Wepion on the op- j
posite side of the Meuse and the line I
of forts to the north still resist.
"In spite of the elaborate prepar
ations with wire entanglements
through which was passed an elect
rical current of I.ROO volts, and the
liberal use of broken glass. Namur
fell into the hands of the Germans
on Sunday.
"The FMgians evacauted the town
in an orderly manner. All rolling
stock and motor cars were removed
and the stationmaster left on the last
locomotive with the railway cash box
under his arm. The Belgian troops |
numbering about 3,000 parsed under'
the protection of a French cavalry
screen. within the French lines."
Open Fire on Clmrlcrol
The correspondent adds: "Thus the
Germans have done much to win
mastery over the two banks of the
Meuse almost as far as Dinant. Thev
however, left behind them six of the
eight forts of Namur which, it is ex
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THE WEATHER]
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ly elond.v t<>-nlght nml Thiirntlny,
no! much rhan«p In temperature.
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tted ti>-nlKl:<; Thai rMriti y |»irtlr
eluuily and »li K htly narmrri
gentle rant »vln<l«.
River
The main river will eontlnue to fall
Indefinitely. A utage of about
feet IN ludlented for llnrr| M hur K
Ihurttriny morning.
(•enernl Condition*
Vnaettlert nnd generally elouflv
weather haa i>ret ailed ' over the
eaxfern |iar« „f the country dur
ing the laMt twenty-tour houra,
ami rnln fin* fallen nv«*r monf of
the territory »oufh and eaat of
the Ohio river.
A further fall of 2 to 12 degree*
ha* occurred In temperature Ken
eraMy over the territory emit of
the l(oek> llountnlifN, except in a
few loenlltlea, where It I* *ll Kl,t
ly warmer.
reiiipernture: S a. in,, 02.
."i2tl a. m.; *et«, (1:48
Moon: Flr*t quarter, Augunt 27
11:.'2 n. m.
River Staice: 2.« feet above low
water mark.
... Yeaterilay'a Weather
IllKhent temperature, till.
I.oweat temperature, ttl.
Mean temperature, 04.
Normal temperature, 70.
MARRIttiF. I.IfKVSES
Hefs'?h r cit^ 1 ' Malley anil Elizabeth
cit>* COb ® u,ckel nnd Bertha Pelffer,
Late News Bulletins
Hong Kong. \i s. 25.—The German slraiwr Elizabeth lias been cap
lurod and sunk in iitiluiTan.
Paris, Aug. 2«. 11 a. in.—The French war office was silent this
morning. No official announcement has been Issued, Inofficial military
opinion Is that the fighting along the Frciich-ltclgian frontier continues
Quiet confidence exists in Paris that the allies will hold off the German
attack and take the offensive when the proper hour arrives.
Home, AUK- 25, 5.55 I'. M., Via Paris. Aug. 2«, 3.45 A. M The
American embassy through the consuls has advised all Americans in
Italy to return home now while communications between Europe and
the United States are free. I.ater, It is said, complications may arise
rendering transportation dinicult. The warning adds, "Americans do-
Ing otherwise remain at their own risk."
Columbia. S. C.. Aug. 2«—Additional but In.-omplcte returns to
day rrom all counties In the Democratic senatorial primary give Gov
ernor tole 1.. Blcas 48,0110 and Senator K. D. Smith 65,000 out of 117 000
votes reported.
f h cago. Vug. 26. —Excited by predictions that the European war
would IH- long drawn out. the wheat market soared to-day and a half
hour l»efore the close was seven to eight cents higher than yesterday s
••lose. December wheat sold at 51.15 and May at $1.21%.
C leyeland, Aug. 26.—-C. (', Hills, aged 70, secretary of a Cleveland
wholesale provision company, was shot and killed early to-day in East
forty-third street, by ail unldentliied man who then killed himself hv
tiring a bullet into his mouth.
I/Ondon. Aug. 26. 3.45 P. M.—David Lloyd George the cliancellor
of the Echequer to-day introduced in the House of Commons a resolu
tion as the lwsls for the forthcoming war loan bill. The hill Mr Llovd
George said, would differ from the previous war loan measurements in
two respects.
Seattle. Wash., Aug. 26.—Ten lives were lost when tlir steel pas
senger steamship Admiral Sampson of the Pacific Alaska Navigation
Company was rammed and sunk by the Canadian Pacillc nasscmrcr
steamship Princess Victoria at 6.30 o'clock this morning.
. .. Washington. Aug. 26.—The German embassy to-day received the
following wireless message rrom the Berlin Foreign Office bv wav of
Sayvllle, L. I.: "An English cavalry brigade has been remdsed Mau
beuge. An English Infantry division has been beaten off with complete
rout of the division. An Austrian corps attacked two Russian corns
south of Krasnlk and carried off 3.000 prisoners, three colors "t ■runs
and seven mitrailleuses." ' " *
REPUBLICANS TO
SETTLE PLATFORM
NCOJMMITTEE
State Committeemen Will Deter
mine Whether to Declare For
Local Option or Not
DR. BRUMBAUGH'S POSITION
Says That His Speech Will Be His
Platform For the Coming
Campaign Work
Sferial la The Telegraph
Pittsburgh, Pa.. Aug. 26.—Indica
tions early this afternoon are that
the draft of the Republican State plat
form to be submitted to the Republi
can State committee to-night at the
Pitt Theater will not contain any dec
laration on local option. There were
rumors that the committee would
submit two drafts.
Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh, candi
date for governor, who arrived dur
ing the morning, said, "I have not
seen the platform. My own speech to
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If Would-be Suicide
Recovers He'll Never Be
Able to Talk Again
William Charles, aged 68 years, of
1411 South Twelfth street, during a
j fit of despondency this morning at-
I tempted to end his life by cutting his
throat with a razor.
Charles is in the hospital in a serious
condition and little hope is entertained
for his recovery. He has had fre
quent attacks of despondency during
the past six months and often threat
ened to kill himself. The aged man
brooded over his inability to get em
ployment and over the death of his
wife, which occurred some tjme ago.
At the hospital 11 was found that
Mr. Charles had an ugly gash In his
throat. The razor had severed the
aesophagus. but had cut no arteries.
Should he recover, he will not have
the power of speech.
PM. GIDSIiT
WITH HUNGARIAN
mm IT FRONT
War Correspondent Says They
Went Back Home Without
One Thought of Duty
!
Pennsylvania's National Guard is j :
represented in the big European war. j
In the September number of The i ]
World's Work magazine, known as j •
"The War Manuel," James F. J. i
Archibald, war correspondent, gives;
special reference to former Pennsyl
vania National Guard soldiers now at |
the front in the great war theater of i
the continent.
Mr Archibald, who has seen seryice
in fifteen campaigns, has been with |
twenty-six armies in the field and has i
seen sixteen armies in actual inter- I
national war, writes his impressions |
of lighting armies for the World's
Work. Among other things he says: j
"I was visiting a couple weeks in I
Belgrade and was Invited by the Aus- |
trian minister. Count Forgach, to at- i ■
tend a review of several thousand '
troops at Semlin. just across the river
in Hungary. While riding back to the
barracks after the review the com
manding officer of the regiment of
Hungarian Hussars, with whom I rode,
called up man after man from the
ranks to speak to me.
"Every one of them were American |
citizens, eight of them belonged to the j *
Pennsylvania National Guard, and j i
each of them had returned to Hungary ,
for his military service as a matter of
pleasure, not duty. The war spirit is!'
very strong." i I
HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING. AUGUST 26, 191.4,
"PATRONAGE WAS NOT DISCUSSED"
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Announcement at Democratic headquarters after conference of Morris, Blakslee, at al: "Patronage was
not discussed."
Asks Police to Help Find
Sister; Learns She's Arrested
Pretty Philadelphia Girl and Italian Companion Held For
"White Slave" Hearing
On a charge of enticing? pretty
17-year-old Minnie Rekeroff here from
Philadelphia, Morris Muff, an Italian,
was to-day held in default of SI,OOO
bail by Alderman Edward Hilton for
a hearing on charges of violating the
Mann "white slave" act.
Muff and the girl were arrested
together last night at 123 South Third
street. They had registered as man
and wife. They were held by the
CULLS REPORTS IT
IMERICRIUS WERE NOT
WELL TREATED FALSE
Returned Tourist Describes Mobili
zation Scenes and Tells of Dif
ficulties Encountered
For the Telegraph Mrs. Elizabeth
| Graybill, of Philadelphia, who is visit
j ing her brother, E. Z. VVallower, has
| written some of the experiences
| through which she passed in Europe
I immediately prior to and during the
| earlier days of the great conflict and
of how she eventually got out of the
; war-torn country to America.
Mrs. Graybill made the voyage home
with a party that Included Miss May
Fox, 129 Walnut street, and Dr. and
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British Ship Damages
Steamer Princess Alice
By Associated Press
Manila, Aug. 26.—The North Ger
man Lloyd steamer Princess JVlice
reached Cuba from Zamboanga to-day
with a huge hole in her stern patched
with cement. The captain admits
that after leaving Manila he tried to
establish wireless connection with
Yap, one of the Carlina Islands but
found that the Yap station had been
destroyed by the British. While
speeding from Zamboa he was chased
by a British warship and barely
reached port. He does not explain
the damage to his vesrel. The Prin
cess Alice sailed from Hamburg June
25 for Yokohama and arrived at
Penang, July 29.
Breckinridge Leaves
Berlin For Vienna
By Associated Press
Berlin. Aug. 28, (By Wireless)!
: Henry Breckinridge the American
assistant secretary of war, accom
i panled by a group of officers from
] the American cruiser Tennessee, left
here to-dav for Vienna.
Mr. Breckinridge and his stafT are
| distributing to needy Americans the
I financial relief sent to the continent
| by the American government on the
I Tennessee.
police department pending an investi
gation to-day. This morning a brother
of the girl, Nathan Bekeroif, came to
Harrisburg from Philadelphia and
asked the police to find his sister, who
had run away. What was his surprise
to tind that his lost sister had been
arrested with Muff.
Follow'ng an investigation it was
discovered that Muff had sent the girl
a ticket, promising to marry her when
she reached Harrisburg.
CHLEI SMS
FILLED WITH DEAD
AFTER GREAT FIGHT
French Infantryman Declares Car
nage at Charleroi Is
Indescribable
London, Aue 26. 5.12 A. M. —Re-
turning from the front a correspon
dent of the Times sends the following
under a Paris date:
"At Mons the British troops have
made themselves at home. Prepar
ations for the city's defense were ex
tremely comforting in their work
manlike detail. In the woods lurked
innumerable field guns. Everywhere
in the town confidence was dominant.
"When with heavy firing audible in
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American Minister
Protests Against
Hurling of Bombs
By Associated Press
London, Aug. 26, 1.38 P. M.—The
Dally News publishes a dispatch from
Its Antwerp correspondent saying It Is
reported thai the American minister
to Belgium, Brand Wliitlock, lias sent
an energetic protest to the German
government against the hurling of
bombs Into Antwerp from a Zeppelin
airship.
German Forces Levy on
Brabant For $90,000,000;
Exhaust Champagne Supply
By Associated Press
London. Aug. 26, 3.18 A. M.—A dis
patch to the Morning Post from Ant
werp says:
"In addition to the German war
levy of $40,000,000 on Brussels the
province of Brabant has been levied
on for $90,000,000, to be paid by Sep
tember 1.
"The German officers at Brussels are
living riotiously. The city's supply of
champagne is becoming exhausted.
The royal palaces have been Invaded
[by German officers."
TRIPP CONFIRMS THE
RUMOR THAT HE IS
GOING TO NEW YORK
Commerce Chamber Will Take Nr
Action Until Regular Elec
tion Time
George B. Tripp, president of the
Chamber of Commerce and vice-presi
dent and general manager of the Har
risburg and Power Company, to
day confirmed the report that he is to
become an operating executive of the
United Gas and Electric Corporation,
with headquarters in New York city,
and that the general managership of
the company would be taken over by
C. M. Kaltwasser, general manager of
the electric company at Lockport,
N. Y.
Mr. Kaltwasser will be succeeded
at Lockport by Edgar 7,. Wallower,
this city, now superintendent of con
struction for the local firm. All the
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Places His Houses in
France at Disposal
of Red Cross Society
Theodore D. Goals, of Boalsburg,
a member of the well-known Center
county family, who was here to-day,
has arranged to place the two houses
owned by him in France at the dis
posal of the Red Cross organization
yfor hospitals. He will also send a
complete equipment of all necessary
stores for them.
Mr. Boals, who spends part of his
time in Washington and France, is
well known throughout the State, as
his family is one of the noted resi
dences in ("enter county. His niece
has already gone to France to take
charge of the arrangements to con
vert the houses into hospitals.
Austrians Victorious
in Three Days' Battle
Berlin. Aug 26, by wireless to the
Associated Press, by way of Nauen
and Sayville, L. I.. —Official reports
made public in Vienna and received
here by telegraph says that the battle
of three days duration at Krasnik
(In Russia Poland, 28 miles south
west of Lublin) ended yesterday In
a complete Austrian victory.
The Russian forces were repulsed
along the entire front of 70 kilo
meters (12 miles) and are now in full
flight in the direction of Lublin.
According to official announcement
made here to-day, Lieut. General
Prince Frederick of Raxe-Meiningen,
was killed by a shell before Namur
August 23.
No news of the situation on the
eastern and western front of Ger
many has been given out to-day.
The above dispatch evidently clears
up the reports published yesterday
and to-day that an uncle of Emperor
William had been killed In battle
The identity of the German Noble
man who has lost his life, up to the
receipt of this dispatch from Berlin,
had been uncertain. A report from
Paris said he was presumed to be
prince Albert of Schleswlg-Holstein.
Price Frederic of Saxe-Melnlnnen
was born In 1861. He was the third
son of George, late Duke of Saxe-
Meiningen. He was married in 1889
to Adelaide, princess of Lippe and
had six children.
Austrians Win in
Poland; Russians in
P russia; War Grows
Austria Declares War on Japan According to
Dispatches From Vienna to Rome; Russians
Continue Their Offensive Movement and
Are Pouring Additional Troops Into German
Territory; Germany May Take Ostend as
Naval Base For Operations Against Great
Britain; No Decisive Engagement on French
Frontier.
London, Aug. 26, 5.26 P. M.—German forces de
livered an attack on the French southern frontier yes
terday. They were repulsed and retired all along the
line.
This information was given out by the official bu
reau this afternoon. The text of the announcement is
as follows:
"It is officially announced that on August 25 the
French, on their southern frontier, were attacked in
force by the Germans.
"The attack was repulsed and the enemy retired
all along the line."
New York, Aug. 26.—The Japanese attack on
Tsing-Tau, the fortified port of the territory of Kiao-
Chow, has failed and the Japanese are preparing for a
siege, according to a cable message received here to
day by Count Von Bernstorff, German ambassador to
the United States from the German embassy at Peking.
London, Aug. 26, 11.45 A. M.—A dispatch from Paris
says : "The losses of the Austrians in the battle of the Drina
continue to grow according to the telegrams from Nish.
The latest aver that out of 300,000 Austrians engaged,
15,000 were killed, 30,000 wounded and 15,000 made pris
oners. Seventy-five guns were captured."
London. Aug. 26, 3.26 P. M.—A dispatch to the Renter
Telegram Company from its Antwerp correspondent says
that another raid on the city by a Zeppelin airship was at
tempted last night. The effective measures taken by the
Belgian military authorities, the correspondent continues,
caused the German airship to retire.
London, Aug. 24, 8.40 A.M. —A Central News dispatch
from Paris states positively that Austria has declared war
on Japan.
London, Aug. 26, SA. M—A dispatch to the Chron
icle from Antwerp says that all the German troops are re
ported to have departed from Brussels and that the Bel
gians expect to reoccupy the city immediately.
Official reports made pnblic in Vienna and transmitted from
Berlin by wireless to New York declare that a battle of three days'
duration at Krasnik, in Russian Poland, ended yesterday in a com
plete Austrian victory. The Russian forces were repulsed along
the entire front and arc in full flight in the direction of Lublin.
This is the first indication of an Austrian advance into Rus
sian territory. Krasnik is about twenty miles north of the Galician
frontier.
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Germans Beaten Off
After British Forces
Lost 2,000 Soldiers
By Associated Press
Paris, Aug. 26, 3.50 a. m.—Ac
cording to Englishmen arriving from
Mons, the British army was attacked
six times by six different bodies of
Germans and beat them all off.
They estimate the English casualities
at 2,000. They report that the allies
made a hecatomb of the Germans
near Mons. Certain parts of the field,
they declare, were covered with Ger
man dead piled so high that the
TUFCOS, the French African troops,
had difficulty in getting over the
bodies to attack the Prussian guards.
Germans May Use Ostend
as Base of Operations
Against Great Britain
By Associated Press
London, Aug. 26, 4 10 A. M.—The
Dally Mall believes the Germans will
occupy Ostend for use later as a base
of operations against England. "The
German movement against Ostend Is
of great Importance and is dictated
possibly by naval as well as military
considerations," says the paper.
"Ostend is only sixty-six miles off
the British coast. If the Germans es
tablish themselves there and bring
up heavy artillery they may render It
a dangerous base of operations against
England. Airships acting from it
could watch the channel and the
Thomas and carry out raids against
Greu Britain.
"From a naval standpoint Ostend Is
well equipped to serve as a refuge.
and harbor. If It were strongly held
by land several German warships
might attempt a dash thither from
Wilhelmshaven and Helgoland. They
then could carry out a harrasslng war
fare against shipping In the channel
and await a favorable opportunity for
disembarking expeditionary forces for
the British Isles."
10 PAGES * POSTSCRIPT.
(Other War News Pages 5, 7, 8)
Plank to Protect the
American Industries
in Republican Platform
Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 26.—The Re
publican State convention adjourned
here to-day after a short session dur
ing whieh a platform was adopted by
unanimous vote. The so-called liquor
plank, over which the rules committee
argued practically all last night,
pledged the party to stand in favor of
continued restriction of the liquor
traffic under the present laws and
such liquor laws as hereafter may be
enacted. Woman suffrage is not men
tioned in the platform.
other planks call for a "tariff law
that will protect American industries,"
a merchant marine and liberal appro
priations for agricultural purposes.
"We denounce the Underwood tariff
act as a law in the Interest of the for
eign rather than the American pro
ducer." the platform states.
Governor fox was characterized as
a State executive wielding "autocratic
powers" and his administration gen
erally was attacked.
"God Save Belgium"
3-Word Prayer on Every
Letter From That Land
"God Save Belgium."
Across the fece of every letter that
has gone out of Belgium since the
outbreak of the European wars. Is that
quaint little prayer of the Belgians
stamped In the upper right hand cor
ner.
Among the Hnrrlsburg folks who
get a great deal of correspondence
from abroad Is S K. Allison. Inciden
tally he is a collector of stamps and
watches closely the outpourings of
I foreign stamps that get in here. Here
tofore the letters from Belgium were
simply stamped and addressed like any
other foreign letter.
Since the broad ribbon of the army
of the Hohenr.ollerns has begun to
slowly wind Itself around the tiny
country that has unintentionally be
come the cock-pit of Europe, every
Belgian invokes that tiny three word
prayer for the fatherland.