2 AUSTRIANS RUN
OUT OF GALICIA
Czar's Soldiers Have Province
Nearly Cleared of Enemy
j
RUSSIA REPORTS SUCCESSES
Dispatches Saying That Germans In.
Poland Have Been Checked Are De
nled by Berlin—Czar Has Three
Armies Advancing Toward Kaiser's
Frontier—Tarnow Falls Before In
vaders Advancing on Cracow.
London, Sept. 30.—The Russian
hordes are sweeping through Galicia
and what few Austrlans are left in
the province are fleeing. A Petrograd
dispatch says that the czar's army of
invasion h.s been everywhere suc
cessful. Reinforcements for the Aus
trian army have been forced back, it
Is claimed, by a Russian army that
entered Hungary over the Carpathian
mountains.
The Unghvar district is being over
run by thin Russian force, the dis
patch says. Budapest, the Hungarian
capital, is only 180 miles from the
Unghvar section.
A Reuter Telegram company dis
patch from Petrograd says that the
river Durzetz, toward which the Aus
trian army is now retreating,
the last important obstacle to the Rus
sian advance on the fortress of Cra
cow.
The German offensive operations in
Poland have been effectually checked.
That is the information secured
from the general staff.
It was stated that the German army
that advanced in an effort to cut in
two the forces of General Rennen
kampf and develop a wide drive south
ward through Poland has met heavy
opposition from the Russians.
Dispatches from the frontier indi
cate that the Germans are preparing
to retire.
Russia's t'.ree great armies are now
sweeping forward into Germany. The
army of- the south, hotly pursuing tb :
Austrians through Galicia, has occu
pied Tarnow, the last fortified position
In front of Cracow.
The army of the v north, under Gen
eral Rennenkampf, has resumed the
offensive in east Prussia after driving
back the German forces there. Now
the great center Russian army which
has been moving across Russian Po
land is in action and making its
weight felt against the German de
fense lines.
The successes of the three Russian
armies during the past few days has
enabled the Russian staff to almost
straighten the long advance, especial
ly through Galicia and Russian Poland.
In east Prussia the line still curves
to the east, but it is believed that
General Rennenkampf will be able
soon to drive his forces forward again
into east Prussia.
It is believed that the southern army
after taking Cracow will push on to
capture Breslau in Silesia. The center
army which, it is reported, has inflict
ed a severe defeat on the German
forces around Kaliscz, will probably
advance on Posen. General Rennen
kampf has again started forward to
ward Koenigsburg in the north ard
will push his campaign until all ot
east Prussia and west Prussia as far
as the Vistula forts is in the hand*
of the Russians.
Berlin, Sept. 30.—Information given
out in Berlin declares that the Aus
trian government denied Russian sue
cesses near the fortress of Przemysl.
It is further declared that the sit'
tion on the river Save is unchanged.
Attertion is called here to tb->
Daily Citizen, a workman's paper pu
lished in London, which criticises
Great Britain sharply for accepting
help from Japan In the present wa \
This paper it is said, predicts un
fortunate consequences for Australia
and America from this move and says
that 100,000 Japanese are ready to
embark for Tndia.
Auditor Accused of Blackmailing.
Youngstown, 0., Sept. 30.—The Ma
honing county grand jury indicted 1
Fred M. Sayro, auditor of Franklin
county, on a of attempt i
1 >i: .nail, growing out of the recent
I .uary campaign for the Republic: a
nomination for governor. The charge
was brought by Senator David Tod 't
Youngstown, a candidate for \ ?
nomination, who charged that Sayre
had tried t•> get $5,000 from him for
carrying Franklin county. Savre SuCd
Tod for libel and he was tried and . ;•
quitted in a Columbus court.
.
Church In Germany Seeks Help.
Harrisburg, Pa., Sept. 30.—The East
Pennsylvania synod of the Lutheran
church was asked to assist the Luth
eran church in Germany by contribut
ing to the support of missions hereto
fore maintained by the Lutherans of
the empire. Appeals from Germany
have been received in this part of the
country asking that at least $31,000 a
month be contributed to take up the
work.
Sixty-Foot Fall Fatal to Man.
Johnstown, Pa., Sept. SO. —William
Smith, aged fifty-one, died at the Me
morial hospital after being uncon
scious for thirteen days. He was work
ing on the top of a building and fell
to the bottom, sixty feet below. Smith j
'suffered a fractured skull.
A 810 BANK VAULT
How Its Coirs V&ro Opened b>
a Message From the Sea.
THE MAGIC OF AN AEROGRAM.
A Dilemma From Which a Great Fi
nancial Institution Extricated Itself
In Double Quick Time by a Rapid
Exchftnc* of Wireless Dispatohaa.
To the ordinary layman, to# busy or
too Indifferent to bother bin head with
scientific matters, wireless telegraphy
is somewhat of a rnj'stery. In a geu
eral way he knows that by it messages
are flashed through the air over oceans
and mountains, but he does not realize
to what an extent and in what varied
roles the aerial magic plays its parts
in daily life. In "The Wireless Man"
the author. Francis A. Collins, nar
rates an instance in which aerograms
averted a possible financial mishap.
He writes:
"A secret, even a very big one. may
be intrusted to the wireless man and
flung halfway across the Atlantic
with complete safety. There was the
case, for instance, of the president of
a great New York bni k who sailed for
Europe without leaving the combiua
tion of the locks of the vaults. As a
rule, the combination is a single word,
and the secret is known only to two or
three. In this case, by an oversight,
there was no one left ashore who knew
the key. The money and securities of
the bank were very safely locked away,
and hours of work would be required
to force the locks of the safe deposit
vaults.
"Tlie bank president's steamer had
sailed at 6 o'clock of a summer's morn
ing to catch a favorable tide, and
when the bank's officials tried to open
the vaults at al>out 9 o'clock the
steamer carrying the secret was up
ward of two hours at sea. A hasty
examination showed that there was
but one way to open the vaults, short
of breaking into them, and that was
by getting Iho code from the presi
dent, serene!v unconscious of the trou
bles ashore i\> delay opening the
vaults would, of fourxe. be a very seri
ous matter if the i <-s - f money were
not ready behind tie birred windows
promptly at lu. the fact would be
known within a few minutes through
out the financial sectioi/ A serious run
cn a bank has been started for a less
•da use.
"In the old days, bef >re the cable, the
Jfjcret could not have been gained in
less than two or throe weeks at best,
or until a message had reached the
president by mail ard returned across
the Atlantic. The cable alone would
have cut the delay in two by catching
the traveler on his arrival on the other
side. Meanwhile the bank officials,
hastily summoned to a conference, had
acted quickly. The wireless stations
had been notified, and a message ex
plaining the situation was flashed from
the top of a high building in New York
and from the Sea Gate and Nantucket
stations. All this was the work of less
than ten minutes.
"Now the combination word used to
lock up these millions in gold, currency
and securities is, of course, not a piece
of information to be flashed broadcast
along the Atlantic coast. It would be
known to scores of people, even if the
stations receiving guarded the secret
with the utmost care. The officials
therefore impressed upon the president
the importance of sending his message
In the private code used by the bank in
its important cables. As the hour for
opening the bank approached the offi
cials waited with an impatience which
may be imagitxd.
"The wireless message was handed
to the bank president as he sat at
breakfast well out to sea. It was now
exactly 9:16. There was a sudden va
cancy at that particular table. After
one glance at the aerogram the presi
dent, realizing the situation to the last
detail, rushed madly for his stateroom
to search for his code book. A few mo
ments later a dignified elderly gentle
man rushed into the wireless booth, de
manding at any cost that his message
be given the right of way. He got it
"An aerogram expressed in an unin
telligible cipher was soon being flashed
with the full power of the apparatus.
The wireless stations along the coast
had been ordered to expedite the mes
sage in every way and were waiting
anxiously for it It was read by two
stations ou the Long lslaud coast and
repeated hurriedly to New York. A few
minutes later the clerk at the telephone
in the bank was carefully writing out
the strange jumble of letters and trans
lating them Into intelligible English.
The clock pointed to twenty minutes
to 10, the bank's opening hour, when
the great steel door swung noiselessly
open on its hinges and the day was
saved."
He Was Precise.
"The truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth," is the motto of
police witnesses at Ystrad.
"Did you see him coming through
the door?" asked a socilitor In court
"No. sir; through the doorway."
answered the police precision in the
box.— London Globe.
Very Conservative.
Tailor—You have inherited a lot of
money. Why don't you settle my bill?
Owens—My dear man, I wouldn't have
It said for anything that my newly ac
quired wealth caused any departure
from my simple habits,—Boston Tran
srript
Most of our misfortunes are more
supportable than the comments of our
friends upon them.—A. Dumas.
TEUTON RIGHT
REPORTED TO
HAVE BROKEN
*aris DispaTch Says Von Kluck's
Men Are on Run
NO CONFIRMATIuN OF STORY
Allies In Autos Are Pursuing Flying
Germans, According to Report—An
other Paris Dispatch Says That Gen
eral Von Kluck Offered to Surrender
to General Joffre—Kaiser Expects
to Break Allies' Lines, Says Berlin.
London, Sept. 30. —A Paris dispatch
to the Exchange Telegraph company
•ays:
"It is stated here that the German
right has been entirely broken and
Is now being pursued by the allies. All
the automobiles in northern France
have been requisitioned for the pur
>ose of pursuit.
"Armored motor cars with mltrail
uses also are being used to pursue
te enemy."
Earlier a dispatch from Paris said
jat General Von Kluck had offered
„j surrender to General Joffre, the
French commander-in-chief, if the Ger
mans were allowed to retire to Ger
many. He offered to guarantee that
aoDe of the Germans would again take
up arms during the war. According
to this report General Joffre declined
to accede to these terms.
Still another report was that the
Germans have been surrounded in the
Somme districts and that the allies'
flanking movement was being extend
ed further east. The German right
wing, according to this dispatch, was
retreating from its fortified position
between the Aisne and the Somme
rivers. It is added that it was believed
the German center army is now in
grave danger.
There is no confirmation of any of
these reports from official sources; in
fact they are contradicted by the of
flcial reports.
Furious German attacks on the
£ench left front, all of which were
ipulsed, marked the seventeenth day
| the battle.
When the communique was given
)t in Paris the French were still hold-
\g their positions, while on the right
center they had made progress in the
assault of the German positions on
the heights of the Meuse.
The French line passes through the
region of Pont-a-Mousson, which has
already been the scene of numerous
engagements, and the region of St.
Mihiel, along the heights to the north
of Spada and then through a portion
of the heights of the Meuse, where
the Germans have held strongly forti
fied points to the southeast of Verdun.
The general front of battle between
Verdun and Rheims is indicated by a
line passing through Varennes north
of Souain and along the old Roman
road which runs into Rheims.
From Rheims the line passes west
of Berry-außac, then along the right
bank of the Aisne into the region o£
Soissons. It runs into the first plateau
on the right bank of the Aisne between
Soissons and the forest of L'Agile and
reaches the town of Ribecourt on the
Oise about midway between Com
pegne and Noyon.
From here the battle front is almost
directly north passing Lassigny, Roye,
Chaulnes, across the Somme and be
tween the towns of Albert and Com
bles.
It is evident that along this part of
line the two forces are In close
bntact. Ribecourt is occupied by the
Vench. Lassigny, five miles to the
rth, is in the hands of the Germans,
Jhile Roye, five miles further north
yard, is occupied by the French, and
Jhaulnes, < bout the same distance
rarther on, is occupied by the Ger
mans.
The Temps summarizes the position
on the Aisne as follows:
"We have reached the eighteenth
day of the battle and Mukden's record
has been broken. The Germans have
not yet quit the position which they
are bound to quit, having nowhere ob
tained an advantage which would al
low them to hope for a return of their
fortune.
"The morale of the allies is excel
lent and the Germans, especially the
leaders, must have known this. A
proof that they had observed it is the
hasty preparations of their lines of
resistance on the Sambre and also
further north.
"A prolongation of the battle and
heavy losses by the enemy will deprive
him of the means of making an equal
ly strong resistance on these lines.
"Gur sacrifices have been cruel, bu*
they were necessary. After this out
rageous war France will take up agair
her former gran a situation on Ger
many's ruins."
Berlin (Via Wireless Through Say.
111% L. I.), Sept. 30. —Reports re
vived here from the front say the
igh German military officials in
harge of the campaign in France pre
lict the Germans will break through
jhe allied lines within the next week.
The resistance is said to be slowly
slackening at several points.
That many of the wounded who
might be saved are being sacrificed
through the scarcity of doctors at the
front was the statement made by the
THE PA RI >T
FORCES ARE
DEADLOCKED
ALONG AISNE
Seventeenth Day Finds Armies
Still In Clinch j
REINFORCEMENTS COMING UP
Speed May Be the Determining Fac
tor, For the Side That Can Receive
New Men First Is Likely to Be
Able to Drive Other From Position.
Paris Report Says That Allies Have
Advanced Slightly.
Paris, Sept. 29. —On the seventeenth
day of the battle along the Aisne river
the official communique issued at Paris
says that in the center the French
troops successfully resisted several
violent attacks made by the Germans
and that they gained slightly on the
heights of the Meuse.
All that is officially given out regard
ing the struggle on their left is that
the reports received are all favorable.
At no time since the opening of the
war has there been fewer comments
on the situation at the front.
The bulletins sent out seemed mere
ly to emphasize the fact that there
had been no change along the battle
line.
The latest official communique is
as follows:
"1. On our left wing the reports re
ceived are favorable.
"2. In the center our troops have
steadily resisted several violent at
tacks. We have gained slightly on the
heights of the Meuse. In the Woevre
a heavy fog has brought operations to
a standstill.
"3. On our right wing (Lorraine and
the Vosges) the situation remains un
changed."
The statement that the situation on
| the allies' left wa? favorable indicated
that the pressure of the flanking move
ment against Von Kluck vas not d
mimshed and that Ins wing was still
in danger of being bent back.
The imperative necessity of lessen
ing the pressure on Von Kluck led
to terrific assaults against the allies
center which maintained its iad jininit
able stand.
Bad weather has dulled the fighting
In the Woevre and the Lorraine dis
tricts.
If the allies can envelop or crush
Von Kluck's army before the Germans
rush a great force through the Verdun
line no German troops can remain in
French territory. If the Germans
break through the barrier, a reverse,
but not disaster, may be expected for
the allies.
Fresh troops, the weight of new
army corps, will most likely decide
the contest of speed. It is believed
the allies can bring to bear a greater
number than the Germans.
For the first time since the begin
ning of the war news by wireless sent
out by the French government through
the Eiffel tower station was received
in London. The message, dated Sept.
28, follows:
"Feeling that their position was be
coming more and more critical under
the pressure of the allies' arms, the
Germans have tried to stop us by re
peated counter attacks. Since Sept.
26 they have delivered by day and
night frequent and very violent at
tacks at several positions on our front.
Everywhere they have been repulsed,
sustaining considerable losses and
abandoning as they lay thousands of
dead and wounded.
"The Eighth army corps and the
guards were severely put to the test
and a large number of prisoners fell
into our hands. It is to be remarked
that many of the latter gave them
selves up voluntarily, although they
could have escaped."
Berlin (Via The Hague), Sept. 29. —
While still maintaining the position
that there has been no really decisive
changes at any part of the 125-mile
battlefield, the report of the German
general staff is more optimistic than
anything issued since the battle of the
Aisne began.
It said that there have been dis
tinct gains by the German center,
which has driven the enemy back with
heavy losses.
The armies operating through
Varennes have succeeded in forcing
the French back on Clermont, on Aire
and on St. Mennehould and now hold
the main, highways and the railroad
lines in that vicinity.
On the heights of the Meuse the
Germans continue to maintain their
advantage and are in strength on the
west bank of the river.
The bombardment of the Meuse
forts south of Verdun continues with
perceptible success, according to the
general staff.
On the German right it is said the
fighting is of the most bitter character,
with the enemy plainly throwing all of
his available force into the fight in
the effort to break through the Ger
man line. At no point has he been
successful, while at a number of points
the Germans have advanced.
Discussing the actual fighting the
war office declared that heavy losses
have been inflicted on the allies by
German bayonet charges and that as a
result the allies have been obliged to
call upon their reserves to strengitcn
their lines.
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