THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURO, PA.
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BOTH BATTLE LINES REACH SEA
NO POSSIBILITY OF OUTFLANKING
TORPEDO SIXTH BRITISH CRUISER
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Allies Extend Their Lines to
Coast and Prevent Germans
From Entering French Ports
Operation Stops Turning Movement by Either Army.
Victory in Campaign Will Go to Army That
First Masses Force Strong Enough
to Break Through Front
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KAISER SENDING STRONG COLUMNS
TO REINFORCE 1 IIS INTRENCHED TROOPS
London. The German attempt to
prevent th Allies In northern France
from extending their lines to the coast
failed and a heavy Anglo-French force
stretching 23 miles, from Vpres, Bel
glum, to the North Sea at a point
about half way between Dunkirk and
Ostend barred the advance of the
Kaiser's army from the Belgian re
sort town.
The Kaiser is rushing forward 200,
000 or 300,000 fresh troops to the Bel
glan coast. The Allies are streng
thening their left as rapidly as pos
sible. In the meantime, Gen. von Kluck's
men are not idle and the Anglo-French
left In the Lllle-Ypres region is kept
busy holding Its own. The French
ofnclal reports tell of the capture of
Leventle, a railroad town eight miles
northwest of Bethune.
The see-saw movement of the con
tending troops In the North Is well
Illustrated by the following news from
Bordeaux, to the French Embassy at
London: "The Germans have ad
vanced from Audenarde toward
C'ourtral. The enemy occupy a line
of defense Meroln-ArmentiereB-Glven-chy.
To the west of La Basse he Is
In contact with our troops between
that locality and Arras. A violent
combat took place northwest of
Lens to Vermelles. which resulted in
our favor. We have taken Hannes
camps, southwest of Arras."
In the Meuse region, the French
report the repulse of a German attack
near Malancourt, 12 miles north of
Verdun. There was little action along
the center.
In an official statement Issued by
the German General Staff It was suit
ed that at no point had the French
succeeded In making any Important
advances: Where the French have
gained ground was said to be at
points where for strategical reasons
the Germans had withdrawn.
Zeebrugge has been entered by the
Germans. The German flag has been
hoisted on the whole Dutch frontier.
Zeebrugge Is on the coast, 16V4 miles
northeast of Ostend. on the steam
tramway that runs along the coast.
It Is the new port of Bruges, con
nected by a ship canal with Bruges,
already In German hands.
The Allies line In Belgium now
reaches from Ypres to the North Sea
thus burring Gprman progress toward
Dunkirk and CaJals.
In Lorraine a French army Is al
most within Bhot of Metz, an fiffen
slve movement which might result
In cutting off the retreat of the Ger
man Crown Prince.
The Government reports, as well
as despatches to the newspapers,
thow that the Allies have gone for
ward In northern France and In
southwestern Belgium, while the
Germans have continued an unoppos
ed advance to Ostend.
The German right wing and the
Allied left wing now rest upon the
seacoast. The Allied line now runs
from Nleuport through Dlxmude to
Vpres, while Gen. Joffre is steadily
pressing back the Germans lu the
reirlnn of Lille.
With both the belligerent lines
reaching to the sea there now can
be no attempts at outflanking by
either army. To win success one or
the other of the opponents must break
through the line, and the army hav
lnr the areatest number of men and
the ability to move them to a chosen
point seemingly has the better
chance to succeed.
The Germans, It is believed here,
are certain to try to make a breach
In the Allies' line, but Just where Is
known only to themselves and to the
French and British commanders, who
are receiving reports from their
aerial scouts of any movement lu
strength.
It Is believed, however, that the
Germans are striking for the outer
railway system, now In French
hands. which runs from Pnrls through
Amiens nnd Arras to Hnzebruw-k
Junction, and thence to Calais and
the coust.
Thus far, nrconllng to the French
reports, the Allies h;.v, repulsed
every attempt of the Germans to
. achieve this object, and now have
SOLDIERS GET HOME NEWS.
Principal Demand of Tommony Atklnt
It for Football Information.
London. The Westminster Gazette
says that the Dally Mall has done an
excellent piece of work In starting
en edition of thut paper enpeclally
for keeping soldiers In touch with
l'ome news. lord Northcllffe has
given his personal attention In France
to this pap r and Its distribution. Men
In the trenches have their dally paper.
Experlenro has shown that the
greatest demand Is for football news.
them pressed well back from the
threatened rullway.
APPREHENSION IN FRANCE.
Bordeaux. The war situation on
northern frontier of France Is viewed
with Increased apprehension In well
Informed circles.
It Is feared that the Germans will
extend their sweep of the north coast
to Dunkirk and even to Calais, oppo
site Dover, England.
With Its battle line from the Ger
man frontier to the English Channel
thus shortened, the German front will
gala In weight.
As the French army has been un
equal to the task of turning the Ger
mans' left flank when thinly extended.
It Is now feared that the entire Ger
man Hue will advance successfully on
Paris.
THE RUSSO-GERMAN CAMPAIGN.
The Hague. The main armies of
the contending forces, the Russians
on one side and the Austrians and
Germans on the other, are In close
touch over an Immense front which
evidently will gradually extend from
the Baltic to the Carpathians. In
spite of the claims of victory here
and defeat there by one side or the
other, there is reason to believe that,
generally speaking, the lighting so far
has been' confined to cavalry engage
ments, and that a general action has
not yet begun.
Although the Germans were report
ed to have been driven back 30 miles
from Warsaw, a later report from
Petrograd tells of desperate flgh'.Iug
but eight miles from the Polish cap
ital. Nevertheless, the Russians War
Office insists the German advance has
been checked. The Russians claim
to have cut the German center and
to have taken 10,000 prisoners, with
several cannon.
WARRIORS FEAR WOLVES.
Animals, Driven From Mountains by
Snow, Rival Enemy.
Cettlnje. A close watch at night
is necessary at the military camps,
not only because of the fear of the
enemy, but on account of the dread
of wolves, which when the first snow
covered the mountain tops began to
descend and wander In rapacious
bands, attacking the living. If they
cannot find dead.
7 SHIPS, 2,186 MEN,
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LOST BY GREAT BRITAIN
f The German policy of crip- j,
3 pling the British navy by sub-
f, marine attacks and floating X
mines while keeping the Ger-
X man dreadnoughts under the
T gum of Kiel and Helgoland hat
4, cost the British six useful
cruisers and one torpedo gun-
4 boat, with a lots of 2,186 men.
J By submarine raids in the
X North Sea Germans tank the
T following:
The scout cruiter Pathfinder,
with 246 men, on September 5. X
The armored crultert Cresty,
iiwur 1 iu nwvwni, vit UbJiBiir
ber 22, with 1,400 men.
1 no cuui cruiier niwnt on
October 15, with 387 men.
German minet In the North X
Sea destroyed the light cruiter
Amphion, with 131 men, on X
j August 6 and the torpedo gun- jj
boat Speedy on September 3, ,
f with 22 men.
,t The advantage In the naval X
' struggle it distinctly with tlje
i Germans, although the British
j have destrcyed or wrecked four T
!s, German crulsert, two torpedo X
'j' boat dettroyert, one torpedo f
' boat, three submarines and X
J eight merchant thlpt armed at T
it, commerce destroyers.
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DUTCH SHIP DODGES CRUISER.
Runs Inside Three-mile Limit When
Chased by British Warship.
New York. Officers of the Dutch
steamer Prlns Wlllem V., which ar
rived from the West Indies, reported
thut the vessel had been chase! by a
Hrltlxh cruiser while off Asuury Tark.
Two German citizens were aboard the
Bteimier. Whpn the HrltlBh cruder
upprcached tlio steamer was headed
Inshore, and ran well within the thr
mile limit. The war vessel then
steamed out to sea.
British Cruiser Hawke
Sunk by Germans
London. The British cruiser Hawke
has been sunk In the North Sea by a
Gorman submarine. Out of a crew
of 400 50 were saved. News of the
disaster is officially confirmed.
The Hawke was scouting In the
North Sea at the time. She was
steaming along when she was struck
almost amidships by the torpedo and
almost torn to pieces.
The Admiralty gave this announce
ment: His majesty's ship Theseus, Capt.
Hugh Edwards, was attacked by a
submarine In the northern waters of
the North Sea but was missed. His
majesty's ship Hawke, Capt. M. P.
Williams, was attacked about the
same time and sunk.
The following officers, with forty
nine men of the crew, have been
landed at Aberdeen from a trawler.
Poatswaln Sydney Austin, Gunner
James Dennis and Acting Gunner
Harry Evitt. The remaining officers
and men are missing.
The Hawke was 7,350 tons displace
ment, 360 feet long, CO feet beam, and
drew 23 feet of water. She was a
sister ship of the Edgar, Endymlon,
Grafton, Theseus and Gibraltar, and
was launched in 1891.
Her armament consisted of two 9.2
Inch guns, ten 6-lnch guns, twelve six
pounds, five three-pounders, two ma
chine guns and two torpedo tubes. Her
complement was 644 men.
The Hawke was commanded by
Capt. P. E. T. Wlliams. Among her
officers were Commander Bernard A.
iPratt-Barlow and Lleut.-Commander
Robert R. Rosoman.
The Hawke collided with the liner
Olympic September 20, 1911, near Os
borne bay, on the north side of the
Is'.o of WJght. She sustained serious
damage.
The loss of the Hawke makes a to
tal of six British cruisers destroyed
by Germany In the North Sea since
the beginning of the war.
CANADIAN TROOPS LANDED.
Ottawa, Ont. Announcement that
the fleet of 32 transport steamers car
rying the Canadian expeditionary
force of 33,000 reached England and
are disembarking the troops at Ply
mouth, has been cabled to Premier Sir
Robert Borden by George E. Perley,
a member of the Administration, now
In Great Britain.
FINAL WAR
BULLETINS
The British Admiralty announced that
the cruiser Hawke was tunk In the
North Sea by a German submarine
Thursday. The lost of life it laid
to be about 327 officers and men. A
titter ship, the cruiter Theseus,
made Itt etcape.
A Berlin official report ttatet that
Ottend wat taken by the German
Army. Newt dispatches from
France tay that the city wat not
bombarded, at their occupation wat
not hindered.
Altace continuet the tcene of dally
trugglet for the possession of
pointt of vantage, the retult of
which It it difficult to ascertain, at
fortunes vary to rapidly. Townt are
taken and retaken repeately.
Thousands who fled Ottend in row
boats and other small craft arrived
at Dover and citiet along the French
coast without food for thirty -six
hourt.
Continued advance! of the Allied
forces near the Franco-Belgian
frontier are reported by the French
War Office bulletins. Ettairet hat
been retaken from the' Germant.
Gains at many pplnts along the In
trenched lines from Lent and Arrat
to Verdun and St. Mlhiel are alto
claimed.
It it asserted that from tlx to eight
German army corps are operating
on the Eatt Prussian frontier,
where Berlin reports that the fight
ing continuet favorable to tht Ger
mant. Berlin reportt that on the battle line
In Poland an advance of eight Rut
tlan army corpt wat repulsed with
heavy lost.
Rome heart that fire In the arsenal
at Triest hat destroyed an Austrian
dreadnought and damaged other
craft.
London conceded that the Germant
controlled channel portt in Belgium,
but it wat taid they would meet
ttrong resistance by the Allies if
an attempt wat made to extend t'ie
Invadert right wing to the French
coast.
The main Belgian Army, according to
the official proclamation issued by
the Ministry, it In touch with the
allied forces, close to the northern
frontier.
The German Army Headquarters re
port stated that there is nothing
new in the situation in France. It
dealt mainly with the big battle In
Russian Poland.
BRITISH ARMY HEALTH WORK.
Noted , Physicians Named to Accom
pany Expeditionary Force.
London. The War Office has ap
pointed Sir John Rose Bradford, Sir
Wllmnt llerrlugham and Sir Alnirolh
Wright consulting physicians with
the British expeditionary force in
France.
Fluid Marshal Karl Kitchener also
has decided to appoint a special army
Sanitary Cuiiimlttee to advise the
army council on all questions pertain
ing to the health of the troops.
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I BATTLE FRONT HA8
CHANGED ENTIRELY ;
j LONDON. It teemt at If the j
: ttruggle hat reached tuch a
complicated ttage that even the
: most highly organized general
: staff It Incapable of exercising
: general control over the move-
: mentt of any particular group
: of the armlet, and In varloua
: quarters of the field the gener-
: alt are acting more or lett In-
j dependently, :
! The principal fact It that both
armlet have executed a most !
j complete change of front tince ;
! the battle of the Marne. They
i are now holding vastly more ex-
j tended lines, running almost
j north and south. The Allies'
! line ttretchet from Ghent, or Itt i
environs, to Soitsont. For the :
past ten dayt the Germant have :
j concentrated their main efforts :
j on breaking through the centre :
of the Allied line. :
j Their object has been to :
j reach Amient and thut control i
j the railroads running north. i
j At a whole, the tituatlon of 5
j the Allies dally becomes more :
favorable. Everywhere they
have held their own, and In 5
aeveral placet have gained a :
town.
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Naval Expert Warns
Great Britain to Resist
Invasion of Germans
London. The naval correspondent
of the London Times, In an article
la which he Is foreshadowing a Ger
man Invasion of England, says:
Now that tne war Is reaching the
climax of Its violence we must an
ticipate that all the living forces of
Germany will be thrown Into the con
flict and that the Germany navy no
longer will remain Inert.
The length of our coasts, the ab
sence of our best troops over sea,
the want of a national army, which Is
still only in the forming; the sub
marine menace, which keeps our
grand fleet often fur from the ulti
mately decisive point; Zeppelins,
mines and other conditions, more or
less novel, throw upon Sir John Jelll
coe a burden of responsibility whlc'j
no one must underrate.
With an Intact navy and Initiative
much can bo done, and it probably Is
hoped that while the German navy
engages ours the transports, escorted
by the older war -ships, may slip
across and complete a landing under
the protection of mines, submarines
and vessels sunk In the fairway.
There Is ample shipping In German
ports for the embarcatlon of a quarter
of a million men or more, and from
the evidence of calmness with which
the German generals sacrifice life to
attain their objects we can be sure,
that a loss of 00,000 men In transit
would be considered a cheap price to
pay for throwing the remainder
ashore.
Are there troops to spare? Ger
many has three million men on her
two frontiers, but she has four million
men In her active army, reserve and
Landwehr, besides a million and three
quarters more in the Landsturm and
Ersatz reserve. She may have now
a million recruits of the new contin
gent at depots. There are reports
that over a million men who have es
caped service In the past have volun
teered. Even It we deduct from these
figures half a million men for losses
In the field by wounds and Illness It
will take a great deal to convince us
that the number of troops needed for
an Invasion of England cannot be
found.
GERMAN SUBMARINES
TO CHANNEL BY RAILT
LONDON. There it a wide
spread circulated rumor In Lon
don that the Germant expect to
transport by rail to placet on
the Belgian and French coattt
a number of tubmarinet, with
which to attack the British fleet.
The entire feasibility of trana
porting tubmarinet overland la
the contention of a well-known
American engineer here who hat
had much to do with the ttudy
of tubmarinet and the handling
of submarine mines. He said:
"It would be possible to trans
port submit Ines by rail from
Germany to the Belgian or
French coasts once the railroad
lines were tecured, but after
reaching the coast then would
come the problem of escaping
the British war vessels or mine
fields."
The rumort are that the Ger
mans may try to tend the tub
marinet from near the mouth of
the Scheldt.
BELGIAN THANK8 TO FRANCE.
King Albert Telegraphs Gratitude to
President Polncare.
Bordeaux. King Albert, of Belgium,
has sent the following telegram to
President Polncare:
"I am profoundly touched by the
hospitality so cordially offered by
France to the Belgian Government,
and by the measures taken by the Gov
ernment of the republic to assure our
full Independence and sovereignty."
"We await with confidence the hour
of victory."
ALLIES HOLD
WAT TO CALAIS
Success in Battle for Seaport
in France Reported
by Paris.
Germans Declared To Have
Been Repulsed In Attempts
To Cross River.
The French are reported to have re-
occupied Armentleres, an important
railway center lu Belgium, and to have
repulsed a German attempt to cross
the River Ysr.
The Allies claim to have made an
advance north of the La Basse Canal
and between Arrns and the Olse.
The German official report an
nounces the capture of Immense quan
tities of war material at Bruges and
Ostend.
An airship which appeared 'over
Warsaw created something of a panic
there.
It Is proposed to BBk the government
In the British Parliament a number
of pointed questions suggestive of In
efficiency In the War Department.
According to reportt submitted by
Lord Kitchener, the British losses in
killed, wounded and missing between
September 12 and October 8 total 561
officers and 12,980 men.
Crown Princess Cecilia has gone to
Danzig to bestow iron crosses on the
crew of the German submarine that
sank the Russian cruiser Pallnda.
German shells have completely de
stroyed the country home of President
Polncalre at Sampigne-sur-Meuse.
The Germans are reported to have
levied a war tax of $1,000,000 on
Ostend.
The Russians. Austrians and Ser
vians, according to thelf respective
official reports, have each inflicted
losses on their enemy.
REVENGE FOR THE HAWKE.
Light Warship Undaunted Assisted By
Four Dettroyert.
London. The British Navy lost
none killed and only one officer and
four men wounded in the action off the
Dutch coast Saturday, when the British
protected cruiser Undaunted and four
destroyers sent four German destroy
ers to the bottom of the North Sea.
The crews of the German craft, num
bering probably 400, all perished, with
the exception of 31, who are now being
petit to a British port as prisoners of
war. This wat officially announced by
the war press bureau In a statement
Issued shortly after midnight It was
stated that the British destroyers were
slightly damaged by the fire of their
German antagonists.
$10,000 A DAY TAX.
Antwerp Official Writes Of Demands
Of Germant.
London. A Reuter dispafch from
Amsterdam quotes Councilor Langnor,
of Antwerp, as describing the situa
tion In that city as follows: "Ant
werp now has a garrison of 17,000
marines and 200 officers, commanded
by an admiral. As a war contribution
the Germans demanded 300 hundred
weight of potatoes dally, 2,000 bottles
of wine, bread for the whole garrison,
85,000 cignrs, 8,500 kilograms of meat
and pay for the officers and soldiers,
estimated at $10,000 dally."
WOLVES MENACE MONTENEGRINS
Snow Forces Them From Mountains
To Attack Men.
Rome. A dispatch from Cettlnje
says: "A close watch at night Is
necessary at the military camps not
only because of the fear of the enemy,
but on account of the dread of wolves,
which, when the first snow covered the
mountain tops, began to descend and
wander in rapacious bands, attacking
the living if they cannot find dead."
VON KLUCK REPORTED OUT.
Wounded Prisoners Declare That He
Hat Been Supplanted.
London. According to wounded
German officers who are prisoners in
a hospital in England, it Is said, Gen.
SIxt von Arnlra has succeeded General
von Kluck in command of the right
wing of the German Army In Franco.
It Is asserted that this change was
made' two days after the battle of
Marne.
MINES IN THE SCHELDT.
Germans, the Dutch Hear, Have Placed
Them There.
Amsterdam. The Germans, accord
ing to the HandelHblad, have laid
mines In the River Scheldt near Ant
werp. Skippers bound for Antwerp
have been required to ask Instructions
how to proceed at Tansweert, a port
in the estuary of the Scheldt.
COLONEL GREY CAPTURED.
Brother Of English Minister Of For.
elgn Affairs Held.
Berlin. Colonel Grey, a brother of
the British Secretary of Foreign Af
fairs, was made prisoner wh?n the
aeroplane on which he was acting as
observer was brought down by a well
directed shot near Peronne, France.
Ills aviator also was captured.
600 GUNS TAKEN AT ANTWERP.
Berlin Reportt Over 4,000 Prisoners
and Much Booty.
Washington, D. C The German Em
bassy received the following official
wireless report from Berlin: "Ofllclal
headquarters reports that near Ant
werp between 4,000 and 5,000 prison
ers were taken; that among the war
booty are 500 cannon, 4,000 tons of
grain and plenty of wool, metal and
cattle. The harbor works are undam
aged." The French attacks near Albert
Dave been repulsed.
GORRESPD
International Newt 8ervlce.
London. A correspondent writing
from Bergen-op-Zoom, Holland, gives
a vivid description of the entry of the
German army into Antwerp.
The bulk of the kalser'a force did
not enter the city until Saturday after
noon, when 80,000 men passed in re
view before General von Schultz, mili
tary governor of Antwerp, and Admi
ral von Schroeder, who, surrounded by
a glittering staff, sat their horsee In
front of the royal palace in the Place
de Melr.
"For five hours the mighty host
poured through the streets of the de
serted city, while the houses shook
to the thunder of their tread," he
writes. "Company after company, reg
iment after regiment, brigade after
brigade, swept past until the eye
grew weary of watching the ranks of
gray under slanting lines of Bteel.
"As they marched they sang, the
canyon formed by the high buildings
along the Place de Melr echoing to
their voices roaring out 'Die Wacht
am Rheln' and 'A Mighty Fortress Is
Our God.'
Like an Election Parade.
"Each regiment waa headed by Its
field music and colors, and when dark
ness fell and street lamps were light
ed the shrill music of fifes, the rattle
of drums and the tramp of marching
feet reminded me of a torchlight elec
tion parade.
"Hard on the heels of the Infantry
rumbled artillery, battery after bat
tery. "Behind the field batteries rumbled
the quick flrers the same pompoms
whose acquaintance I had made at
Weerde and elsewhere. And then,
heralded by a blare of trumpets and
a crash of kettledrums, came the cav
alry, cuirassiers in helmets and
breastplates of burnished steel, hus
sars In befrogged jackets and fur bus
bies, and finally the uhlans, riding
amid forests of lances under a cloud
of fluttering pennons.
But this was not all, nor nearly all,
for after the uhlans came the blue
jackets of the naval division, broad
shouldered, bewhlskered fellows, with
caps worn raklshly and a roll of the
sea In their gait.
"Then the Bavarian Infantry In dark
blue, the Saxon infantry in light blue,
and Austrians in uniforms of beautiful
silver gray, and last of all a squadron
of gendarmes in silver and bottle
green.
"As that fighting machine swung
paBt I could not but marvel at how
the gallant, chivalrous and .coura
geous but ill-prepared little army of
Belgium had held It back as long as
It had.
Few See Entry.
The most remarkable feature of
this wonderful spectacle was that
there were comparatively few persons
to see it. So far as onlookers were
concerned the Germans might as well
have marched through the streets of
Pompeii. Another American and I,
standing on the balcony of the Ameri
can consulate, were the only specta
tors, so far as I know, In the whole
length of the Place de Melr, which is
the State street of Antwerp. It re
minded me of a circus that had come
to town a day before it was expected."
A feature of the procession was a
victoria drawn by a fat white horse
and with two soldiers on the box,
which accompanied a regiment of Ba
varians. Both horse and carriage
were decorated with flowers. It was
evidently a species of triumphal char
lot, for it was filled with hampers of
champagne.
Pay for What They Take.
The correspondent says the German
soldiers treat the townspeople with
consideration, paying In German sil
ver for what they take from the shops.
Describing the fear of the Antwerp
citizens when the kaiser's soldiers en
tered, the Correspondent says:
"When the tualn body of troops be
gan entering the city on Saturday
morning the townspeople those who
bad not escaped from the city rushed
out with beer, cheese, bread and flow
ers, evidently with the idea of placat
ing them by means of their pitiful
little offerings. It was not a pleas
ant sight, but these people have been
so terrified by tales of German bar
barities that one can hardly blame
them."
The correspondent estimates that
less than one hundred civilians were
killed during the bombardment.
Havoc Wrought by Shells.
Telling of the rain of shells which
swept the city, he says:
"A 42-centimeter shell tore com
pletely through a handsome stone
house next door to United States Con
sul General Diederich's residence,
crossed the street and exploded In the
upper story of a school. There Is not
a block In the Boulevard Leopold Unit
does not contain several shattered
houees. No buildings were damaged
In Place de Melr, though three shelli
struck the pavement, tearing holes
ns large as a grand piano.
"A shell entered the roof of the Ho
tel St. Aiitolne, passed through two
bathrooms and exploded in the room
occupied 48 hours before by the Rus
sian minister, destroying everything
In it.
Cathedral Struck.
"The cathedral was struck only by
one shell, which entered through the
wall over the western eutrance and ex
ploded over the side chapel. The
American Express company's offices
on the Qual van Dyck were slightly
PATRIOTIC PLAY FANS
LONDON WAR FLAMES
London. That the stage still plnys
an important part In sustaining pubile
spirit and forwarding movements for
the aid of the Red Cross has been
fully demonstrated by Sir Herbert
Tree's revival of "Drake."
From the first performance the pa
triotic scenes have aroused the au
diences to tremendous outbursts of
enthusiasm. The effect of theBe dem-
onstrations is being witnessed by
INT GIVES A GRAPHIC
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DESCRIPTION OF FALL OF ANTWERR
damaged. A shell struck the h
1 1 V.. A ,
uiuupicu v) uu American named Hm
ana me uutcn consul and blew
entire second floor Into smlthereeni
"A Zeppelin hovered over the 1
during Thursday morning's bombai
ment, dropping occasional bombs
juuuftii mo uciiiiaii Biirapinjl (j,
aiea enougn navoc, it was child'a
compared to the damage done by
eiege guns. When a 42-cenllmet,
ohill I t .unit n V. . . 1.
..en ninin u iiuuBu it not mere
uiew a noie in it, it simply dem
lshed It, the whole house collapsl;
into ruin as u snaKen to pieces by
earthquake."
Almost as much damage was oaim,
by fires resulting from the bnwim,
ment as from the shells thomselve
The entire weBt side of the Marthm
Soullers from the head of the piJf
de Melr to the Pluce Verte, Inc.ludlJ
and a line of fashionable Hiiops oppl
Bite the Hotel St. Antolne, wa
Btroyed. A quarter of a mllo of build
ings in the Rue van Bree, includin
tne handsomest apartments In
city, nre nothing but charred wall?
1 he handsome block in the Hue de
Justice is completely burned. In
dltlon several hundred dwellings sea
tered through the city have bee
burned to the ground.
Dynamite Saves Cathedral,
As the city Is without water,
cept sucn as can be pumped from ti
river, the firemen were powerless
check the flames. That every bulldln;
on tne Place Verte and very probabl;
the cathedral itself, was not burned
due to an American resident, Charles
Whlthoff, who, realizing the eitreni'
gravity of the situation, suggested
the German military authorities tba
they dynamite the surrounding build
lngs.
At ten o'clock at night word u
sent to Brussels and at four o'clock
the morning six automobiles with dj
namlte arrived and the walls were
blown up, the German soldiers staid
ing on the roofs of neighboring build
Ings and throwing dynamite bomh
"It was a lively night for every om
concerned," says the writer.
"I was just Bitting down to my Unt
meal in 30 hours when the police bunt
in with the news the city was bun
Ing," he goes on. "I found an entire
block opposite the hotel In Damei,
and as there was no water the firemen
were powerless to check them. When
I discovered the block Immediately
behind the hotel was alto ablaze, It
struck me it was time to change nj
quarters.
"After wandering through pitch-
black streets for three hours, (!!ip!n;
on broken glass and stumbling over
fallen masonry, and occasionally chal
lenged by German sentries, 1 saw I
light In a building In the Boulevard
Leopold. I rang the bell and t
taken In by a poor little consomptlre
bookkeeper.
Takes Over Consulate,
"Upon calling at the consulate In
the morning I found that Consul Get
eral Diederich and Vice-Consul Sher
man had left two days before for parti
unknown. As there w as a large num
ber of frightened people clamoring
for reassurance and protection, and u
there was no one cUe to look after
them. I ntwnnrl th consulate and U-
sumed charge.
"The proceeding was wholly Irregu
lar and unauthorized, of course, anl
will probably scandalize- dt'partinent
of state officials In Washington, but It
was no time for red tape.
"I Immediately wrote a letter to tt
German commander. Informing nra
that in the absence of the consul gen
eral I had assumed charge of tM
American and British Interests U
Antwerp and expected the fullest pro
tection. I received a courteous reptt
immediately, saying that ewy P"
tectlon would be afforded foreigner..
iicc ml wiMn wnnn IN
ATTACK UPON GERMANS
London. A correspondent dejcrlbe
a walking wood at Crecy. The Fren
nnrt TlrHluh cut down trees and WnN
n.lth fhn branches- I
after line of Infantry, each man bear
ing a branch, then moved for
nhaarvnri trtwarii ftlA pnIl)V
Behind them, amid the
trunks, the artillerymen fi "
selves and placed 13-pounderi to
the moving wood.
me auacK, wuit-u B.
the bucccss It merited. It almos t
wrong, however, for the Frew
airy, which was follol "
tour to pass the wood and dasni
view near the ammunition rest
tne aiues. tberf
German shells began f''"lns . ,
abouta. but British Midler
the hills and pulled the box." fi
munition out of the way ' ,
man shells. Ammunition and w
through unscathed. By eu
enemy had been clean u
Murne district.
Cathedral Lost to ;
Parls.-The artistic u
cathedral at Reims, wl'1''1?", 0
A a4
the German bombaru.. y - b,
town, never can be rettoreo.
opinion of Whitney Warren,
York architect, who has jus
from iteims, vw.c. - u8 ,ir
ough Inspection of the fa '
ture. Mr. Warren, who w
sponding member of tne ( !
France, was given the P
.... 4U,w1ril-
visitmg me cnuu- -
..,.it
heavy Increases In the do"
relief funds and by (lie,teP
from among the young
gSlr' Herbert P1d 'I" f H
gave his services wltho
leading lady. '8B JU '
Terry, also donated w
the authorwalvall
Th. New and th.Vj,j
What Is valuable is
what is new ! not valo
Webster.