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r v. THE WEATHER Forecast—Fair Thursday night and Friday. Temperatures—6 a. m., 67; 8 a. m., 76; 10 a. m., 79; 12 noon, 82; 1 p. m., 84; 2 p. m,, 85. Sun rises 5:07; sun sets 6:12. 'i HOME EDITION V KAISER YIELDS ON SUBMARINE WARFARE ( CIRCULATION THE SORT THAT COUNTS ^ THE GEORGIAN HAS IN ATLANTA ALONE Bw-15,356 More *** 9,884 More ?irJ:™. Th,B INTO THE HOME When Atlanta starts home in the late afternoon, there is a copy of The Geor gian stuck in his side pocket. The Georgian is not left at the office; not tossed aside in the street cars; not surreptitiously thrown to the curb; not contributed to the bar ber; not left behind ANYWHERE. It goes into the HOME C5& GERMANS TAKE BREST-LITOVSK Work in laying: a crushed rock base for the Grant street car tracks be tween Georgia avenue and Milledge street was abruptly stopped Thurs day, when the city construction de partment built two stout fences across the street and effectual ly blocked all cars on that line from passing. The Woodward avenue line of the city car system was the only one af fected by the blockade. The cars on this line w r ere allowed to run to Mii- ledge street, passengers at this point being forced to walk two blocks up Grant street to Georgia avenue, where they were transferred to oth er lines in continuation of their ride toward Grant Park. Mr. Brittain ordered the two blocks Involved on Grant street closed en tirely every night, the same to be opened up in the morning to allow private traffic to pass. The dispute over the right of the city to enforce an ordinance requir ing the trolley company to lay a con crete base under tracks where new wood block paving is being laid led to the building of the two barricades by Karl W. Brittain, Assistant Chief of Construction. He sent a force of city workmen to the scene at 4:30 o’clock Thursday morning, and when the mo- torman of the first outgoing car ar rived he found the city defenses in place. Action to Force Issue. Mr. Brittain acted under the ad vice of James L. Mayson, City Attor ney, with a view to forcing the trol ley company into the courts for a set tlement of the disputed point. The company is expected to ask an in junction against the city’s interfer ing with their work. Workmen of the trolley company already were laying crushed rock -when the city took its drastic step. C. A. Smith, of the trolley construc tion force, stated that he would not put in the concrete, it was reported. Then Policemen Paul West and Bill Payne arrested George Gulley, a foreman for the trolley company, and gave him a copy of charges. The dispute over the required con crete base for trolley tracks also in volved Gordon street, in West End and Ponce De Leon avenue and South Pryor street. The contention of tho city is that without a concrete base for the trackes the pavement will not stand. Eight R uss Forts Fall in Three Weefas T HE Austro-German armies in the eastern theater of war have accomplished the un paralleled feat of capturing eight mighty Russian fortresses within three weeks. The strongholds } taken by the Teutonic allies from , the Russians follow: 1 Warsaw, August 5. j Ivangorod, August 6. Serock, August 7. Lomza, August 10. Ostrolenka, August 14. By JOHN EDWIN NEVIN. \ (Staff Correspondent of International News Service.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—Germany has modified her plan of submarine warfare. Count von Bernstorff, her Ambassador, so told Secretary of State Lansing to-day. He also told the Secretary that his telegram sent from New York by direction of his Government, in which Germany asked the United States to suspend judgment and action in the case of the steamer Arabic, was due to his knowl edge of the fact. If the original plans of indis criminately sinking all enemy vessels had not been changed, he said, his Government could not have directed him to take the action that it did. Instead, it undoubtedly would have “deep ly regretted’’ the loss of Ameri can lives, but would have point ed out that Americans had been RETREAT Expected to Retire 150 Miles More Before Making New Stand. BERLIN, Aug-. 26.—Brest-Litovsk, the mighty Russian fortress behind which the grand Russian army re tired after the fall of Warsaw, has been captured by the Austro-German troops after one of the shortest sieges in history. The capture of the fortress was an nounced to-day by the German War Office. The victory is considered one of the most brilliant since the war be gan. Brest-Litovsk was the pivot of the second Russian line of defense. It was one of the strongest fortresses in Europe. The fortress of Brest-Li tovsk lies immediately east of the Bug River, 110 miles east of Warsaw. Five important railway lines pass through Brest-Litovsk. Forts Taken by Storm. The official report of the German War Office announcing the capture was as follows: ‘ Fortress of Brest-Litovsk has been taken by Austro-German troops. "The Teutonic forces stormed the forts defending Brest-Litovsk on the western and northwestern fronts last r.ight. As we entered the central work, the enemy gave up the fortress to our possession.” With Brest-Litovsk in possession of the Germans and Grodno and Bieles- tok threatened with imemdiate cap ture. the Russians are now expected to retire for 150 miles before they at tempt to make a serious stand to stem the Austro-German invasion of interior Russia. Grodno is the only fortress remain ing in the hands of the Russians upon their second line, and it is reported that the evacuation of that strong hold is under way. The glory for the capture of Brest- Litovsk goes to Prince Leopold of Bavaria, whose Bavarian troops took Warsaw, and to Field Marshal von Mackensen, whose group of armies worked north on both side of the Bug River, smashing the Russian lines wherever the Slav forces made a stand. The great swamp regton east of the Bug and northeast of Vlodava, which the Russians thought would check the advance of the Teutonic forces, were crossed at the rate of five miles a day. Roads Planked for Big Guns. Engineers worked day and ight building bridges and plank roads over which the big guns were carried. Austro-Hungarian troops played an important part in the capture of Brest-Litovsk. Cavalry arms under General von Koeyess and General Pulihallo drove northward from the Lubltn-Cholm-Kovel line and in the rear of Brest-Litovsk. Finally, when only one railway line remained in possession of the Rus sians and their defenses on the west ern side o' the city were smashed by the Germanic forces, the order was given to retreat. The pursuit of the Russians east of Brest-Litovsk is going on vigorously. Brest-Litovsk was defended by tw-o girdles of forts. The main chain of fortifications consisted of twelve strong works, built by the best mili tary engineering genius in the Rus sian Em wire. The forts mounted 6, g, 10 and 12-inch guns. There were also long line of redoubts and strong bridge head positions. The fortress, unlike Novo Geor- giesk, guarded a city of 50,000 inhabi tants. Brest-Litovsk is 131 miles south of Grodno, with which it is connected by ra^l. It is the seat of an Armenian bishop, who is head of the Catholic Armenians in Russia. fully warned not to travel on en« emy’s ships. Ex-Atlantan in War Writes of Beavers You know these letters that come In from that part of the Big: War they call the front? Nothing to it, much. You think they will be about shrapnel and cold steel and night at tacks and life in the trenches, and all that sort of thing. Mais non! But no—not on your shako! Comes a letter to R. E. Lawshe, at the Eagles’ Club, from H. A. Strachan, better known as "Hoot Mon” on ac count of his Caledonian ancestry and accent: and what does he write about from The Front? Oh, about the Ea gles, and the K. P. drill team, and Chief Beavers and what happened to him, and especially what a lot of lost time he (“Hoot Mon”) will have to make up when he gets back to dear old Atlanta., That’s what he writes “aboOt frae th’ FrOont,” and you may lay to that. "I can’t tell you anything about the War,” he says, “because all letters are examined by a censor, and we are not allowed to say anything.” But he did suggest that baseball bats would be great stuff when at close quarters, and that T. R. Cobb should do terrific execution, with the enemy making the home run*. Mr. Strachan vjent to Canada not long after the war started, and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Forces. He Is now helping to defend France, and his address is not much more particular than that, looking some thing like this, the way he writes it: H. A. Strachan, Amm. Col. R. C. H. Q. t Can. Ex. Force, France. Edison Nearly Loses Sight in Laboratory (By International Newt Service.) ORANGE, N. J., Aug. 26.—Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, was at work in his laboratory at Silver Lake to day, suffering no serious effects from the splashing of potash that came near destroying his sight yesterday. His right eye was badly inflamed but it was said there -was no danger of the sight of either eye being af fected. An assistant upset a quantity of liquid potash and it sprinkled the face of the inventor. William F, Parkhnrst Is Adjudged Insane William F. Parkhurst, an Atlanta publicity man, Thursday was ad judged Insane by a jury in the Ordi nary’s Court, and was ordered placed In the State Sanitarium at Milledge- ville. The trial was presided over by Chief Clerk Arthur Marbut, in the ab sence of Ordinary Jeffries. The evidence showed that Park hurst has been in failing health for some time. Count von Bernstorff was with Sec** By O. B. KEELER. As they would say in the provinces. Marietta society now is In the swim. This is a crude way to lead off, but you ought to have been there Wed nesday evening, at the new swimming pool, solid concrete, steam-heated, and entirely al fresco, installed half a block from the Public Square by Pierre Cambios and my old friend Jeems Brumby, from an admixture of patriotism and business principles. The Formal Opening was Wednes day evening, beginning at 7:30 o’clock and lasting until the large round moon was right overhead. The new podl has been the talk of the populace for some time, barring a little divertlsement last week. And Marietta’s well-known fondness for politics and elections broke out like German measles after a hot bath w’hen it came to electing a suitable Queen to boss the opening occasion. It was a complicated sort of elec tion. <From what I could gather last night between splashes, you bought a ticket which entitled you to a plunge, and that entitled you to a vote for the Diving Venus of the First Night, and that entitled her to invite a Young Man to escort her, and that entitled him to a swim, and that entitled the Innocent Bystanders to a series of amazing duckings—as it turned out. Journalist Gets a Bath. I did not go in the pool. But I got a good deal wetter thaji if I had. If I had got any wetter than I did this epoch-making narrative never would have been written, because I would have been drowned. It was a scene of hilarity and High Continued on Pa^e 2, Column b. French Make War’s Greatest Air Raid (By International News Service.) PARIS, Aug. 26.—The greatest air raid since the war began was re ported to-day by the French War Office. ♦ ^ Dlllingen, !n Rhenish Prussia, Ger many, was attacked by 62 war aero planes of the French. One hundred and fifty bombs were dropped upon the town. Great damage was done to the blest furnaces and arms factories. Dlllingen is 28 miles ffouth of Tre ves. and since the war broke out has been an important manufacturing center in western Germany for war supplies. Tue .treat ferries and mill* at Dlllingen at the outbreak of the war were all turned into arms and mu nition factories. Artillery duels are reported from Artois and the region of Roye. Near Neuville St. Vaast and Souch. ez (north of Arras) and in the Ar- gonne there have been violent en counters with hand grenades. Landsturm Called For Balkan Service (By International News Service.) AMSTERDAM, Aug. 26.—As a re sult of the serious situation facing The Teutonic allies in the Balkans, Germany Is preparing to mobilize more troops. Advices from Berlin to-day state that the Landsturm reserves have been notified to b* ready to respond to a call to the itools. Haitien Rebels Fire On American Patrol (By International News Ser%ce.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—Haitians fired on the American patrol in Port Au Prince last night, Admiral Ca- perton to-day notified the Navy De partment. No mention was made of casualties. Officials here believe that the trouble was quickly put down or Caperton would have advised further A band of Cacos, the north Haitian tribesmen, who are giving the Amer ican authorities trouble, invaded Port de Paix last night. They did not start $ny trouble. The gunboat Nash • ville, with several companies of ma rines and four machine guns, has ar rived at that port. retary Lansing for 35 minutes. He told the Secretary that he as yet had received no supplemental Instructions from his Government dealing with the Arabic case, but that he looked for them at any time. Mr. Lansing ex plained that while the United States had withheld any action at Germany’s request it could not maintain that po- sitioh Indefinitely. He suggested that Inasmuch as a week already has pass ed since the Arabic had sunk, his Government felt that it should re ceive the German side of the'matter not later than the ned of this week. And it Is understood that Secretary Lansing agreed to expedite any ex changes between the German Govern ment and Its ambossador here. Must Have Reparation. Unless it shall be proven that a Gerrtian submarine had no hand in the sinking of the Arabic—and Sec retary Lansing made it plain that what seems overwhelming proof is at his disposal indicating that it had— the United States must have an ade quate disavowal from Germany, repa ration for the families of the victims and punishment for the submarine commander; itherwise, it must carry through its program of reprical, the ambassador was frankly informed. It was made plain to the German Envoy that the Administration has fully decided on its program and that it will carry it out to the last ex- tremiey. The Ambassador is under stood to have stated that he still was unconvinced that a submarine torpe doed the Arabic. He based his opinion on the brief fragmental messages he had received from his Government:, but promised that this point will be conclusively cleared up by Germany as quickly as possible. On leaving the State Departm*nt the Ambassador said that he itnended to remain in this city until he re ceived the full official advices from his Government for presentation to the State Department. It was ex plained that he had not asked for anv interview with President Wilson, an he believed that he and Secretary Lansing will be able to reach a com mon understanding. The Ambassador Is understood to have told a fellow- diplomat that if newspaper reports from Berlin quoting the Imperial Chancellor as indicating a willingness to placate the United States were ac curate—and he believes they are—he will probably convey Germany’s apol ogies to the United States for the Arabic sinking, If Germany finally as sumes the blame, within the next few days. From sources close to the German embassy' It was learned that the fol lowing is the German viewpoint aft thej^resent time: The German Position. When the British blockade was pro claimed Germany was compelled to direct the indiscriminate torpedoing and sinking of all enemy’s vessels re gardless of the rights of neutrals. That policy was maintained until tha Russian first line of resistence was crushed and Warsaw' was taken. With the successes to the east to buoy up the German spirits. It was felt advis able to take steps which would abso lutely prevent any further complica tions with neutral nations and espe cially with the United States. In pursuance of this plan orders were sent out to every' submarine commander that the requirements of international war were to be rigidly adhered to In the destruction of all passenger carrying merchant ships. Germany thus is in position to dis avow the sinking of the Arabic, she accepts responsibility and to claim that the commander responsible ex ceeded orders. This change is specifically attrib uted to the German successes in the east which will make possible, the German claim, an lndependenUToland under German protection and will en able Germany to secure there the foodstuffs that have been cuj off by the Brush blockade Demand of Brittain That Concrete Base Be Laid by Company Causes Row. Marietta Right in the Swim; Woeful Writer Gets a Bath Scenes at the opening of Marietta’s own swimming pool. Above are some of the acre of small boys, who enjoyed the open ing plunge, playing about one of the big boys, who covered about a half acre himself. In the other picture, reading from le£t to right, are Mrs. Sarah Worley, Miss Ellen Cambios and Miss Kath erine Coryell. Behind them is Miss Esther Maddox, "queen of the Carnival. ’ ’ I