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No. 498.. No. 19.744. WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 18, 1914* * FIVE CENTS.

GERMANIC FORCES! BEGIN A GIGANTIC

BATTLEINPOLANCDesperate Attack on Russians' Center Opens Crucial

ai 1 r- jl

on uyyie in cast.

AUSTRIAN TROOPS JOINTEUTONS IN GREAT CLASH

Muscovites Beaten in Hungary, Purued by Dual Monarchy Troops,

Says Vienna Dispatch.

BERLIN DENIES PEACE RUMOB

No Overtures Made to United States,oays umciai communication

' Both Sides Claim Victories in

Conflicts Along Vistula.

BERLIN. October 17. via The Hagueand Loudon..Preparations are underway for a gigantic battle in the easternarena of the war, where Austrianand German armies have takenpositions along the River Vistula andthe River San and are ready for eventualities.The retaking of ITzemyslas announced from Austrian sources,has permitted the unfolding of thepower of the Austrlans from the directionof Lemberg. and the advance inthe southern Carpathian mountains ismenacing the extreme left wing of theRussians.Desperate fighting already is going on

along the center of the two armies onthe banks of the Vistula. This actionhas been in a measure delayed owingto the bad condition of the roads insouthern Poland and the presence ofsections of swampy lands. This conditionhas made necessary detours onthe part of the Austrian and Germanforces.

Russians East of Vistula.The Russian army is east of the Vistula.This fact is regarded in Berlin

as making its advance, and the generalmanagement of the campaign, «a

difficult matter and at the same timeunfavorable.The Russian attack on the Austriansnd Germans, unless they succeed in

recrossing the Vistula, which" wouldbe a difficult undertaking at the presenttime, will not be an easy matter.The Austrian and German commandersare bearing in mind, however, that thefortress of Ivangorod and the belt offortifications between Warsaw, Praga,Novo Georgijewsk and Segriche serveas Rnasian supports.

It Is understood here that heavyfighting for possession of the bridgesat the head of the Vistula Is imminent.German troops already have reachedthe terrain commanded by the fortificationsmentioned above.

Germans Fill in Gap.PETROGRAD, October 17, by way of

London, 3:10 p.m..According to RussianInformation the Germans are making a

demonstrative" advance near Mlawa.nonnean 01 narsaw, wnicn i» jnirnaeuto fill the gap between the East Prussianfront and the main front, whichextends north and south on a line acrossRussian Poland.The German army by continuous

maneuvering under heavy artillery fireand with day and night outpost fighting,still is endeavoring to feel out possiblechances to cross the Vistula. Refugeesfrom that neighborhood say that untilthree daj's ago all German attempts tocross the river had been repulsed withheavy losses. The Germans found theriver too wide for pontoons and numbersperished in attempting to ford it.Poles in that region are said by the

refugees to be hampering considerablythe German advance by destroying ailshelter arfd provisions, leaving wastelands for the invaders.Nine huhdred Austrian prisoners arrivedtoday at Nehita, Siberia.

Driven Out of Hungary.LONDON. October IT nm "».a

dispatch to Reuter's Telegram Companyfrom Amsterdam says that thefollowing message has been receive*from Budapest by way of Berlin:"The Russians who were driven ou'

of Marmaros yesterday were beateTnear Rahov, where they had occupie*Intrenchments. The Russians fled inthe direction of Koeroesmezoe (a Hungarianvillage in the province of Marmaros).They were pursued by th«Austrians."The Russian force is now- reducer

to four thousand men. the last fragmentof the great army which penetratedHungary. Small forces may stilbe In the forests, but they surrendeiwithout resistance when caught."

Bethmann-Hollweg Quits Brussels.BERLIN, October 17, by wireless tc

Fayvtlle. L. I..Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg,the German imperial chancellorwho went to Brussels last Wednesday,left that city today for general headquartersto report to Emperor WilliamIn Brussels the chancellor conferredwith the civil and military authoritiesThe North German Gazette has made

public th# reports of several Gerrnardiplomatic representatives, which referto the circumstances leading up t<

port made in June of 1914, which show:Franco-Russian action, on the occasiorof the English royal visit to Paris, iran endeavor to conclude an Anglo-Russiannaval convention and to changethe triple entente into an alliance.The paper also publishes a reporl

dated in June of 1914, which is accompanied by a Russian secret document orthe Anglo-Russian conference held Maj26 at the house of the chief of the Rtissian naval staff. In this document careful details of the distribution of partsof both the English and the Russiainavies are set down, as are also arrangements regarding the Bosphoruiand the .Dardanelles.The Gazette concludes its presenta

tions with the publication of an intercepted report by an aid-de-camp of iRussian grand duke, dated July 26, 1914In which it is stated that Russia, sinctJuly 24 has been bent on war. The aidde-camp stigmatizes Rasputin's exhortation to peace, addressed to EmperoNicholas, as well as M. KokovsofTs expressions of love of peace. He declare)that even a catastrophe would be better than a permanent and sultry peace

. and says that the cabinet council, li(Continued an Seventeenth Page.)

FINANCIAL NEEDSDOMINANT ISSU

) Politics Apparently Backed 0New York Stage by "HumanInterest."

PEOPLE WANT TO KNOWHOW TO MEET EXPENSE

Money Center and Its Collateral Iiterests Depressed by the War

in Europe.

BY N. 0. MESSENGER.j NEW YORK. October 17..Underlyiithe political story of this campaignNew York is a human, interest stowhich is far more absorbing than poltics. Here comes your correspondeover to New York, as of yore, fmany years, to give The Star readethe gossip and news of the campaignWe folk in Washington like to he;

of Xew York, of course. We likeknow what's going on in politics,society, and all that. Some of us con

! over to borrow money from FraTVanderlip. or the house of Morgan,wherever we can get it; some conover to the horse show, the opera orhave a good time on the White Waand all that kind of thing.Heretofore at this season of the ye;politics has been the main thing. The

is a campaign for the House of Repn| sentatives, for United States senatofor governor and legislature and staollices in full blast.In former years these questions wou

absorb public interest, be discussedcolumn length in the newspapers, pa$| after page; would be talked aboiheatedly in the cafes of the Waldorthe Knickerbocker, the Astor, the Bemont, the Biltmore and other greshotels.

Theme Most Prominent.Are they doing: that now? They ai

not- They are talking about pork arbeans, mostly. They are discussing tlsubject of how they are going to liithis winter, keep the son at college, pathe coal bill and have a veal loaf <some corn beef and cabbage, insteaof the roast and the entrees of fatt<years.The war has put the blink on th

town for fair. New York, being tlmoney center of the country, the hcafrom which the circulating mediugoes and must return in financial iwell as physiological similitude, is abut paralyzed.You never saw anything like it. Itabsolutely terrifying. They never sa

anything like it and can hardly b<lieve it.to have the export and impoitrade stopped. Wall street close up, s<curities without market for sale <buying, men out of work, incomestopped, no chance to borrow from thbanks, because securities have astandardization.And in this state of things to hatBill Sulzer and Col. Roosevelt and GoGlynn and Mr. Whitman and Mr. Dai

enport parading forth, beating drumblowing bazoos and trying to g<everybody all "het up" in their peisonal quarrels is not interesting, biannoying, to the voters.For instance: I meet my friend, MSo-and-so, who is engaged in big bus

ness and big politics on the side. Hhas done notable things in both lin<of endeavor. Selfishly concerned in mown game. I asked him about the p<litical situation.

ut Mo Interest to Him."Who is worrying about politics?" tsays. "I went down to the bankindistrict today and they wouldn't leume money on a government bond,see that Roosevelt is calling everjbody a crook and a liar; that Whitmaand Glynn are disputing as to whoreally the tool of Tammany; that Suzer claims to be the only real discoverof Diogenes.but tell me, o, tell mwhere am I going to raise that loar,What do you suppose I care about yoilot of cheap politicians?"And so it goes. Talk to the plain me

about town, who are not in the clajof my half-million borrowing frien*they don't give a rap about politicThe tariff as an issue with them is juiabout as lively as old Rameses. Thedon't even seem to appreciate that Serator Burton and his friends afterlong filibuster saved a few million do

Llars on the river and harbor bill. Asmatter bf fact they would a heap soorer have seen the money spent; may!* they might have copped off a contrac

I But the people who feel this way aiold-fashioned republicans and don

t know what reform means. They doncare whether Bensel was appoint*1 commissioner nor what he did with tl1 road funds.this being the sole issue spresent. They only hope that some d<serving fellow got a good job and wisthey had it themselves.

? Conjure With Wilson's Name.j mv wiuco uuwn, in me laax anaiysi

to the platform of the very astuldemocratic managers, who, apprecla' ing the distraughtness of the proletiriat, say: "Never mind, boys; let Wison do it."And the voter, being obsessed by tl

greater question of how he is goiito pull through the winter, seems iiclined not to take on any addition:burdens, but to leave it to Wilson 1take care of the political en dof It.Now, 1 am giving you the hums

end of it, not a lot of high-bropolitical dope of what ought to 1and what might be, but just the plai

[ everyday feeling as I sense it in itcontact with all kinds and conditio;

1 of men.

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BOAT LINE REOPENED,; ROTTERDAM TO ANTWER

LONDON, October 17, 7:25 p.m..Tl5 Amsterdam correspondent of Reutei

Telegram Company reports that pa^ senger traffic between Rotterdam aii Antwerp has been reopened for the rT uatriation of Tl

first steamer left Rotterdam today wionly eighty-five passengers, most

3 whom were women. Other steame1 w ill leave tomorrow.

! GERMANS IN BELGIUMj CAPTURE 200 LOCOMOTIVEI LONDON, October 17, Midnight-.1

official message from Berlin recelvr in Amsterdam and forwarded by ti

correspondent of Reuter's Telegra3 Company declares that consideratwar material was seized by the G«

' mans in Bruges and Ostend. The spo_ included a great number of rifles ai

ammunition and 200 locomotives.

WAR REVENUE BILL !E PASSED BY SENATE. AFTER STIFF FIGHT |

Vote Stands 34 to 22 After!Day Featured by Many

Bitter Speeches.SDEMOCRATS NEAR SPLIT

B' IN ACRIMONIOUS DEBATE!

Vardaman's Motion to Postpone In-

definitely Proves Crucial Test

, for the Measure.in

if' COTTON BILL KNELL SOUNDSnt |or

rs Senator Stone Heaps Criticism on

ar Heads of Members Who Would

Hold Up Passage of

j Legislation.

leto The war tax bill, designed to raise

$105,000,000 of additional revenue tooffset the loss of customs revenue due

irto the European war. was passed by

re the Senate last night by a vote of 34 toe- 22. One democrat. Senator Lane, votedr. against the- bill.te The vote was taken after a day of bit

terdebate, in which the ranks of thedemocrats threatened to split wide

ze open and action on the bill to be inLitdefinitely postponed. The crucial test'* came on a motion made by Senatorlt varuaman 01 Mississippi to postpone

the bill indefinitely. The motion wasmade after the Hoke Smith amendmentto issue government bonds in the

re sum of $250,000,000 to buy cotton in or1(lder to help out the cotton farmers inle the crisis they are facing, was defeat-re ed by a vote of 40 to 21. ;

Three republicans. Senators Borah,iy Clapp and Jones, and the sole progress->r ive in the Senate, Senator Poindexterid of Washington, voted with the southerern democrats for the Hoke Smith cottonamendment.is Billed Out of Order.ie

rt It had been reported that a band ofm eight senators from the cotton statesig had agreed to vote for the tabling ofU the emergency tax bill in case the bill

carried no provision for the relief ofls the cotton people. But the motion tow table the bill, made by Senator Hoke3- Smith of Georgia, was ruled out of or-rt der by Vice President Marshall, in views* of the unanimous consent agreement of>r the Senate to vote on the bill before jIS midnight. "

Then Senator Vardaman made his mo®tion '"w^poHtpone indefinitely, whichamounted to the same thing as to table.r® It was defeated, 32 to 25. For this mov-tion five democrats voted with the rer"publicans. They were Senators Clarke,®. Arkansas; Smith, Georgia; Smith, SouthCarolina; Vardaman, Mississippi, andWhite, Alabama. The three other dem-ocrats who had been reported as ready |to vote against the bill were Senators

? Sheppard, Texas; Shields, Tennessee,i- and Robinson, Arkansas. Senator Robteinson was away, and both Sheppardis and Shields voted against the Vardayman motion.>- The administration exerted itself yes- ]

itriuu-v auernoon to pet tne cottonsenators into line in favor of the taxbill. Postmaster General Burlesonwent to the Capitol and interviewedseveral senators.

fStd Stone Arraigns Democrats.

Before the vote on the Vardamanmotion. Senator Stone of Missouri ar- traigned the democrats who favored u

postponing the bill indefinitely, be- u

ccause it carried no cotton amendment, rHe called them "recalcitrants," and r

"repudiators" of pledges made in the a

ir democratic caucus which framed thebill. Senators Williams of Mississippi,James of Kentucky, Shively of Indi- aana and Pomerene of Ohio also de- a

a. nounced them. rThe action of the senate last nipht

H' puts an end to any opportunity forst legislation at the present session of *y Congress, to aid the cotton farmers, c

While Representative Henry of Texas va has threatened a filibuster in the

House against the tax bill unless aida was extended to the cotton interests,»- it is believed he will be unable to do>e more than delay the bill for a day or:t. two. Adjournment is expected by!*e Thursday. v

i't An amendment offered by Senator £i't Overman of North Carolina to return atd to the cotton states $65,000,000 colielected from them in a tax on cottonit during reconstruction days was de- S»_ Viv- a vote of 44 to 14. T

jh 4CThe"war tax bill places a tax of $1.75 ra barrel on beer. 5 cents a gallon onrectified spirits; Increases taxes on tobacco;increases taxes on domestic *wines'; a tax on theaters and other j

B» places of amusement, a tax on tele' &phone and telegraph messages costing gt- 15 cents or more, a tax of $1 a thou- «

sand on bank Capital and surplus; a jtax on perfumery and chewing gum; it jtaxes pawnbrokers, commercial brokers,customhouse brokers and re-enacts

ie the Spanish war stamp taxes in largelg part.B" Goes to House Tomorrow.U 3to The bill will go to the House tomor- 1

row, and will be sent to conference as tLn soon as possible. Before adjourning r

^ until Tuesday, the Senate appointed itsn conferees on the bill as follows: Sen- tly ators Simmons, Williams. Stone, Clark jus of Wyoming and McCumber. g

Before the vote was taken on the *Vardaman motion to postpone indefi- *nitely the tax bill. Senator John SharpWilliams of Mississippi, himself a 1

P champion of the cotton-bond amendment,arose and arraigned his colleagues.From a position in front of the demo- 1

he cratic seats he declared that fesponsi- ®

..s billty for the welfare of the entire coun-try would rest upon them If their efforts" should succeed.

id "If there be democrats here." said he, I"u'hn in this t h r»*n t^ni n o- 1.^..- - ..'11e_ . ««v>u i iu megovernment will now join hands with the^ opposite party to defeat this necessary

, revenue legislation, the responsibilityot will rest upon them. Do you believe thers democratic party will permit five or six ,gentlemen to stultify the party andstarve the Treasury? Do you imagine *you can win anything for your cause rby that? I warn you that you cannot. \

g "Will Become Tired." *

"If you attempt to hold up the best itn interests of the entire nation in order jed to get assistance in an effort for aidhe that already has been denied by an (m overwhelming majority of the Senate, 1>le l prophesy that you will be tired of 1n« your position after it has been before"2 the country for a few weeks. It is no .HQ J(Continued on Seventeenth page.) i

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3wner Arrested, Admits HeCould Work With Berlin

and Paris.Bm

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Sngland and France Put Teutons ^Under Arrest and Seize Their L',

Business Houses. b(Sll

LONDON, October 17..The authoriiesare taking more stringent measiresagainst alien enemies who remain windetained in England. This after- T1toon the police raided a large restau- w

ant owned and managed by Germans.nd Austrians. These were taken to a m[etention camp. mrjven mose wno were recently naturilizedare being detained for an ex- d.mination. The agitation against per- SJnitting natives of hostile countries to siontinue their vocations here is grow- s«

ng as reports come in of alleged st

>perations of German spies in Antwerpbefore that city fell.

Capture German Wireless. ol

The police today seized a wireless Sl

eceiving apparatus and a quantity of ai

vire at the residence of Prof. ArthurJchuster, near Wokingham, in Berk- nihire. ttProf. Schuster, who is a brother of **

Mr Felix Schuster, governor of the sX

Jnion of London and Smith's Bank, adnittedto the police that he could re:eivemessages from Berlin or the t

Siffel tower in Paris with his ap- *

>aratus.Prof Schuster is a fellow of the Royal.

iocietv and is also secretary of the ortl/x5a a. «r»n of PVnnnlaranizauon. - ---- , soseph Schuster and was born at Frank- 1

ort-on-Main.Seize Teutons in France. ti

PARIS. October 17..Sixty-four Ger- a"nan men. from eighteen to twenty-five w

cars old. were arrested in Paris today,hough being of military age, they had ei

leen allowed to remain here under per- r<

nits issued to such aliens. lrTwo more groups of Germans, Aus- re

rians and Hungarians were sent to the m

irovinces this afternoon. One group con-*

iisted of 350 old men, women and chil- p*Iren, and the other of 150-men .varying h<n age from seventeen to sixty years.

BORDEAUX, France, October 17..The Sl

French government, pursuing the cam- ai

laign against German-own.ed businesses, sa

oday seized six concerns. One was a P*[epartment store and the others winestablishments.

* /HEAVY FIGHTING IN AFRICAREPORTED BY TRAVELERS Sp

PARIS. October 17, 2:40 p.m..Thelavas Agency has received a dispatchrom Barcelona saying that travelers ar- r

iving at I-as Palmas, in the Canary is_ fands, from Africa, report that there jsias been heavy fighting between Germanroops and English and Fr tch- troops b<n Kainerun, the German colony of West ai

Squatorial Africa. ht

The travelers referred to in the above 81

lispatch must have reached Las Palmas i

>v steamer. No date of this reportedIghting is given. «

Dispatches from Bordeaux last month -i

laid that a French gunboat had taken li.possession of Coco. Beach. In Kamentn £September 21. "

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T WAITING FOR THE WORD.

^OUR GERMAN DESTBY BRITISH OFF

English Cruiser and FoSend Teutonic ShipOnly Thirty-one IV

LONDON. October 17. 7:60 p.m..The andritish navy has accounted for fourore German destroyers which were

igaged and sunk off the Dutch coast (jerrrlis afternoon by a British cruiser Upid four torpedo boat destroyers. heartAccording: to an announcement madef the secretary of the British ad- hairalty, the British vessels in the aeonwere the light cruiser Undauntedid the torpedo boat destroyers Lance,jnnon, Legion and Loyal. TheThus the British sailors have taken sel oeedy revenge for the sinking of the and tritish cruiser Hawke by a German Thibmarine Thursday.

cruis

Thirty-One German Survivors. threeThe British loss in <he engagement fo

as one officer and four men wounded. .n p£

tie damage to the British destroyers "} leas slight. There are thirty-one Geransurvivors, prisoners of war. "

U ?fFW ahm ahm ahm ahmahm JJ*an survivors, prisoners of war. This I? ®

eans that nearly 400 members of the aftererman crews were killed or drowned.The sinking of the four warships to- strovly makes six torpedo boat destroyerssnt to the bottom by British gunfire Inee the beginning of the war, andjven counting the torpedo boat de- Theroyer sunk by the submarine E-9. Haw!

How Count Stands. er bemarii

The score in naval operations, with- capecit counting converted merchantmen, agedich as the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse Up ]id the Cap Trafalgar, now favors the broujlies, which have sunk six German and ier tlle Austrian cruisers and seven Ger- Thean torpedo boat destroyers, while thatlere have been unconfirmed reports of menle sinking of several Austrian de- 1 Theroyers in the Adriatic sea. mariiThe Germans have sunk eight British diate

TALY EXPECTS WAR VBUT FEARS APPROA

< <-1,1 Cablegram to The Star and New York ItaliaTimes. tells

ROME. October 17..The Italian na- lo se

on is calm, but is holding its breath

the expectation of some great event, m ®.id few doubt that that event will be are j-jar with Austria. TheConfidence in the government, how- an£.fer, received a shock owing to theivelations about the army follow- on tl

ig the resignation of the undersec- he w

tary for war. When the present was tinistry was formed the portfolio of whenar was offered to Gen. Porro, who Austifused it. Gen. Grand! accepted the that>rtfolio, but left the army just where Onei found it. choleiGrandi has now resigned and his and ]iccessor will have a free hand. neare

Meanwhile supplies are pouring in officisid there is plenty of the most neces- Italiry element for a successful cam- althoilign enthusiasm. A friend from the J cases

iSIATIC CHOLERA NO\ITALIAN PRECAUT

ecial Cablegram to The Star and New York to eaTimes. of dri

ROME, October 17, via London..An- fecticher cause of anxiety is making itselfIt. Asiatic cholera, so diffuse among althoiustrian, Servian and Russian troops, cases

getting nearer and nearer to Italy.It is now officially acknowledged to pi\/Ii in Greece. Sea traffic between Italy HI VIid the various countries affected con- qw j

itutes a severe menace to the penin- Dl [ila.Every precaution has been taken. All AMSzarettes have bee& put in order and 9:07>ady for inmates. All ships must the Htow clean bills of health. This rule is Rivergidly enforced, while there is daily skipspection of foodstuffs, fruit and vege- beenibles. to preThe inhabitants are admonished not estuar

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ur Torpedo Boat*s to Bottom.fenRescued.one Russian cruisers, while Ausihas lost a submarine by accident.Russians also claim to have sunkGerman submarines, but this thelans deny.to this afternoon Berlin had noti officially of the sinking of thesh cruiser Hawke, which indicatesthe submarine which accomplisheds not yet returned to port.

A Small Cruiser.British cruiser Undaunted, a ves'f3,800 tons, carries two six-inch

six four-inch guns.destroyers that accompanied the

er have ea!ch an armament offour-inch guns and an equipment

ur twenty-one-inch torpedo tubeslirs. The destroyers are 250 reetngth and have a speed of twentyknotsan hour. They each carrynen.i cruiser Undaunted was commandyCapt. Cecil H. Fox, who comledthe cruiser Amphion, which,sinking the German armed cruiKoeniginLuise, was itself deedby a German mine August 6.rn mlro SnrwiTrnre U na «V>

survivors of the British cruiserke, which sank in five minutes aft;ingtorpedoed by a German subtlein the North sea Thursday, eslin a single boat which they mantolaunch and, being later picked;>y a Norwegian steamer, were?ht to Aberdeen by a steam trawlismorning.ir small boat was so overcrowdednothing could be done to save thewho were floating in the water.periscope of the attacking subne,they said, disappeared immelyafter the explosion.

VITH AUSTRIA,iCH OF CHOLERAn provinces still under Austriame that the other day he wente Gen. Cadorna, chief of the genstaff,and said:neral, you will not misunderstandaying that people think that youakewarm about fighting Austria."general looked at him a moment

then, drawing his old-fashionedfmr* V. «* J J

you see this watch? It was jie body of my grandfather whenas hanged by the Austrians. Itaken from the body of my fatherhe lay dead fighting against the 1ians. It never leaves me. Isa sufficient answer?"great cause of anxiety is the J

ra among the Austrian, ServianRussian troops, which is gettingr and nearer to Italy, and is nowilly acknowledged to be in Greece,y is free of the scourge so far,jgh last month there were a few 1of plague in Sicily.

V IN GREECE; iIONS EFFECTIVE \t bad food of any kind. Boiling <nking water is advised and disin- i.n of houses. Above all, cleanli- <is insisted upon, with the result,% that Italy is free of the scourge, iugh last month there were a few <in Sicily. *

ER SCHELDT IS MINED3ERMANS, REPORT SAYS \TERDAM. October 17, via London, 1

p.m..The Germans, according te *andelsblad, have laid mines in the 1Scheldt near Antwerp. tpers bound for Antwerp have firequested to ask instructions how ttceed at Hanswoert, a port in the ty of the Scheldt.

GERMANS DEIIN DASH T

FRENCHGallic Sailors Fighti

Halt Advance (Paris Anni

ALLIES ADVANCINGBRITISH CAPTUE

Berlin Declares There Is NoSays Von Klnck Is Remov

Condition

FROM THE BATTLE FRON1p.m..The allied armies have preventealong the coast and have defeated thechannel ports.

Dunkirk is surrounded by a vastdated and open country where cavalryfacility, while there is no opportunityplay.

A corps of French sailors, whosethe fleet, acting As infantry, repulsedYpres.

The sailors also distinguished thwhere, after a trying night march,woods, and at daybreak surprised a iaithey inflicted serious losses, capturirinfantry with quantities of supplies ar

The allies today advanced rapidlythe important position of Fromelles,hard fighting.

Military movements are progresin the north of France than when th<foot by foot with the aid of pick an

Germans back from their strongly iRivers Scarpe, Somme, Oise and Aisr

Paris Official Statement. wasMai

PARIS, October 17. 10:59 p.m..The O;official communication issued tonight jrecby the French war office says:"On the front there has been only at

cannonading."On our left wing progress continues.

The British troops have captured Fro- pmelles,to the southwest of Lille."On the Ypres canal to the sea our

soldiers and marines have repulsed a InSGerman attack."

Prince Oscar in Bad Condition. ..

i dis<BERLIN, October 17, 4 p.m., via The In

Hague and London, October 18, 1 a.m.. 1108It is officially reported that there is no

mai

marked change in the French theaterof the war.

Prince Oscar, son of the emperor, whowas obliged some weeks ago to with- ^redraw from his regiment on account of miHa heart affection, is not showing satis- pubfactory progress. An examination has pat<disclosed a rather serious condition of rthe heart muscle, and the prince must iremain under medical treatment for pec'some time. Prince Oscar is now at andHamburg, where the empress has vis- erwited him. mea

Says Von Kluck Relieved. 8U^LONDON, October 17, 3:30 p.m..Accordingto wounded German officers, who ado

are prisoners in a hospital in England, mailit is said, Gen. Sixt von Arnim has sue- I^r

ceeded Gen. von Kluck in command ofthe right wing of the German army in uresFrance. It is asserted that this change cess

GERMANS STRUGGITO REACH THE

LONDON, October 17 (10 p.m.)..Each i disti

day brings the war nearer home to

England. Today there was a naval bat- atetie off the Dutch coast, in which a str0]British cruiser and four destroyers allsank four German destroyers, while on Thei

land the German troops reached thecoast of Belgium, less than seventy miles Vict<from Dover. They are about to at- men

tempt a march southward to Dunkirk *

and Calais, which are even closer to forClthe English coast. hav«It is here in West Flanders and across certi

the French frontier, in Pas de Calais,tha hAaviest and most important Dv(,

Ighting is now going on. es piAccording: to the French official communicationissued this afternoon the

Germans have not advanced beyond the ^1<,lne running from Ostend to Thourout, es f,Etoulers and Menin. The last-mention- pear;d place is just on the border north of ing,Idlle, which the Germans occupied some thoulays ago, but which, according to an i ev__mconfirmed report, they have been

J. I attarjompeiiea 10 auaiiuou.

The allied line in this region runs from Arcl point on the coast, which has not been wheilisclosed. For the moment Arras is the thejcene of the most persistent fighting. whic

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The Germans are trying to break hashrough to the Calais railway, while the pret]French are attempting to push the Ger- grounan front to the northeast In this awighting the French appear to have met domvith some success, as they announce therehat they have occupied Fleurbaix and ever,ilso have taken the immediate approaches mento Armentieres. At Arras, they claim, repoihey are continuing to gain ground. GernThe fighting has only commenced in now

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[\ via Paris, October 17, 11:41d the Germans from advancingir object of seizing the French

territory which is easily inun'and infantry can operate withto bring big guns into effective

services were not required witha strong German attack near

emselves on the eastern wing,they gained a position in therge body ot Uermans, on whom

ig detachments of cavalry andid ammunition., and the British troops carriedto the southwest of Lille, after

Bing with much more rapidity; allies were forced to advanced shovel in order to push thentrenched positions along thele.

made two days after the battle of-ne.ne of the German officers who iaiited with vouching: for this story ieit. von Arnim, described as a nephewthe general and who is in a hospitalNetley.Turks Turn on Germansf

ETROGRAD, October 17..A semi2lalRussian news agency is sendoutthe following:Turkish delusions tend to diminish.tain liberal Tnrir» «.*>«. % > iiiaiiiiccllligcontent with German dominationConstantinople there have beentile manifestations before the Geraembassy."German Bole in Antwerp.

DNDON, October 17, 0:25 p.m..iherr von Huehne, the new Germanitary commander of Antwerp, todaylished a proclamation, says a dis:hto the Reuter Telegram Companyn Amsterdam, statins that he ex'sthe population to remain calmto refrain from all excesses. Othise,he said, the severest military

.s"ures would be taken,he municipality of Antwerp also is1a proclamation urging Belgiansens to return to the city and exningin detail the many regulationspted by the authorities for thsntenance of order.eiherr von Huehne yesterday reedthe foreign consuls and assuredn that all necessary military measihad been taken to prevent ex«es.

JNG HARDFRENCH COAST*ict, however, for the Germans, whoId consider it a great victory to reachcoast of France and "Hold the pistolEngland's head," have brought upng reinforcements and will strive withtheir might to achieve this object,r official report, issued this afternoon,hat tin ovanto n# * «-.«- ^ */«. tiiiifurutiico nava>ened, but as they await important>ries before making: any announcetthis does not mean there has beenIghting.e allies also cab bring: up reinementsboth by sea and land andi been doing so, which makes itain that a# great battle must be;ht before either side gives ground.allies will be assisted by theish ships when the fighting reach*oints near the coast.

Only Artillery Busy.>ng the center, which now stretchromRoye to the Meuse, there apsto have been a lull in the fightwhichmeans, of course, that alghthe artillery has been busy as

neither side has attempted any?ks.>und St. Mihiel, south of Verdun,*e the Germans are hanging on tolittle strip of the River Meuseh they succeeded in crossing andwhich the French have been tryforweeks to drive them, the battldbeen almost continuous and th#ch claim to have gained mor#nd.ay down in Alsace, which is selmentionedin the official reports,* has been fighting which, howbothFrench and German statesignore. Twice during the weekrts have come from Basel that thetans have been defeated there, andan unofficial account from Berlin

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