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in mu itOry ivir. raimcr, ini
noted war correspondent, has paint*
ed war as he has seen It on man/
battlefields, and between many na
tions. Hla Intimate knowledge of
armlea and armaments has enabled
him to produce a graphlo picture of
the greatest of all wars, and hla
knowledge of conditions haa led
him to prophesy an end of armed
conflicts. No man Is better quali
fied to write the story of the final
world war than Mr. Palmer, and
he haa handled hla subject with a
master hand.
0 SBWBSM*
(Continued from Yeiterday.)
Westerllng raised hla clenched
band threateningly at the chief of In
telligence, hla cheeks purple with rage,
hla eyes bloodshot. But Bellini, with
hla boyish, small face and round head
■et cloee to hla shoulders, remained
■tidlsturhedly exact.
"Yea, there is a leak, and from the
Staff,'' he answered. "Until I have
found It this array ought to suspend
any aggressive—”
"I was not asking advice!" Inter
rupted Westerllng.
"But, I repeat, the leak la not neces
sary to disclose this new movement
that you plan. Their air craft will dis
close It," Bellini concluded. He had
done his duty and had nothing more to
•ay.
"Dirigibles do not win battles!"
Westerllng announced. “They are won
by getting Infantry In possession of po
sitions and holdtng them. No matter
of we don't surprise the enemy.
Haven’t the Browns held their line
with Inferior numbers? If they have,
we can bold the rest of ours That
gives us overwhelming foroea at En
gadlr.”
"You take all responsibility T" asked
Turcas.
"I do!" said Westerllng firmly. "And
we will waste no more time. The pre
mier supports me. 1 have decided We
will set the troops In motion."
With fierce energy he set to work
detaching unite of artillery and ln
fHntry from every pnrt of the line and
•tartlng them townrd Hngadlr.
"Thla means an Improvised organi
zation; it breaks up the machine,” said
the tactical expert to Turcas when
they were alone.
"Yes," replied Turcas. "He wanted
no advice from us when he was taking
counsel of desperation. If he succeeds,
success will retrieve all the rest of hla
errors. We may have a stroke of luck
in our favor."
• ••••• •
In the headquarters of the Browns.
Junior officers and clerks reported the
words of each bulletin with the relief
<>f men who breathed freely again. The
chiefs of divisions who were with I-en
etron alternately sat down and paced
the floor, their reetleeenees now that
of a happiness too deeply thrilling to
be expressed by hilarity. Each fresh
detail only confirmed the complete
ness of the repulse as that memorable
night In the affairs of the two nations
•lowly wore on. Shortly before three,
when the firing had died after the
Brown pursuit had stopped, a wireless
from a dirigible flying over the fron
tier came, tailing of bodies of Gray
troops and guns on the march. Soon
Jjlanes and other dirigibles flying over
other positions were sending In word
of the same tenor. The chiefs drew
•wound the table and looked Into one
Mother's eyes In the significance of a
common thought.
"It cannot be a retreat!" said the
vice-chief.
"Hardly That la inconceivable of
IWastarllng at thU time," Lanetron re-
Jdlad. "The bull chargee when wound
ed. It U clear that he means to make
Mother attack. These troops on the
Starch across country are Isolated
from any Immediate service.”
It was Lanatron's way to be aug
■aatlre; to let ideas develop tn coun
oil and orders follow as out of council.
"The chancel" eiclalmed some one.
“The chancel” others said in the
wane breath. "The God-given chance
for a quick blow! The chance! We
attack! We attack!”
It was the most natnral comceptlon
to a military tactician, though any man
who made It his own might have
bullded a reputation on it If he knew
how to get the ear of the press. Their
faces were cloee to Lanatron as they
leaned toward him eagerly. He seemed
not to see them but to be looking at
Partow's chair. In Imagination Par
tow was there in life—Partow with
the dome forehead, the pendulous
cheeks, the shrewd, kindly eyes. A
daring risk, this I What would l*artow
any ? Lanstron always asked himself
this In a crisis What would Partow
aay ?
"Wall, my boy, why are you hesitat
ing?” Partow demanded. "I don’t know
that I’d have taken my long holiday
and left you In charge If I'd thought
you'd be losing your nerve aa you are
this minute Wasn't it part of my
plan— my dream—that plan 1 gave you ,
to read In the vaulta. to strike if a
chance, this very chance, were to
come? Hurry up! Beoonds count!*
"Yea, a chance to aud the killing for
good and all!” said Lanstron. coming
abruptly out of his silence. "Well
(a&e It and strike hard.”
# /Vs BEDE RICK PALMER
Tho staff bent over the map, Lan
stron'a finger flying from point to
point, while ready expert answers to
his questions were at Ills elbow and
the wires sang out directions that
made a drenched and shlveribg eol
diery who had been yielding and bold
ing and never advancing grow warm
with tho thought of springing from the
mire of trenches to charge the enemy.
And one, Gustave Feller, In command
of a brigade of field-guns--the mobile
guns that could go forward rumbling
to the horses’ trot- saw his dearly be
loved batteries swing Into a road In
the moonlight.
“La, la, la! The worm will turn!”
he clucked. "K’h n merry, gambling
old world and I'm right fond of it—so
full of tho unexpected for the Grays!
That lead horse Is a little lame, but
lie'll last the night through. Lots of
lame things will! Who knows? May'
be weil be cleaning the mud off our
boots on the white posts of the fron
tier to-morrow! A whole brigade mine!
1 live! You old brick, I-anny! This
time we are going to spank the enemy
on the part of his anatomy where
spanks are conventionally given. La,
la laI"
CHAPTER XX,
Turning the Tablet.
Through the door which the aide
liad loft open the division chiefs, led
by Turcas, filed In. To Westerllng
they seemed like a procession of
ghosts. The features of one were tho
features of all, graven with the weari
ness of the machine's treadmill. Their
harness held them up. A moving plut
form under their feet kept their legs
moving. They grouped aronnd the
great man's desk silently, Turcas, bis
lips a half-opened eeam, his voice that
of crinkling parchment, acting as
spokesman.
"The enemy seized his advantage,”
he said, "when he found that our re
serves were on the march, out of touch
with the wire to headquarters."
Westerllng forced a Bmlle which he
wanted to be a knowing smile.
"However, we had not prepared our
positions for the defensive," oontlnued
that very literal parchment voice.
"They began an assault on our left
flank first and we've Just had word
that they have turned It. Nor Is that
the worst of It. They are pressing at
other well-chosen points. They threat
en to pierce our center."
"Our center!" gibed Westerllng.
"You need reet. Our center, where we
have the column of last night's attack
still concentrated! If anything would
convince me that I have to fight this
war alone—l—" Westerllng choked In
Irritation.
"Yos. Th« ground la axirh that It la
a tactically naf<* and advantagnom
mova for L&natron to make. He strikes I
at the vitals of our machine.”
"But what about the remainder of ;
the force that made the charge? What
about all our guns concentrated In
front of KngadlrT”
”1 was coming to that The rout of 1
the assaulting column wa* much worse
' than we had supposed. Those who are
strong enough cannot be got to re
| form. Many were so exhausted that
| they dropped tn their tracks. Our
guns are at this moment In retreat —■
j or being captured by the rueh of the
‘ Browns' Infantry. Your Excellency,
the crisis Is sudden. Incredible."
"Our wire service has broken down.
We cannot communicate with many of
our division commanders," put tn Bel
lini, the chief of Intelligence.
"Yes, our organisation, so dependent
on communication. Is in danger of dis
ruption." concluded Turves. “To avoid
disorder, we think It beat to retreat
acrosa the plain to our own range."
At the word "retreat” Weatarllng
spraug to bis feet, hts cheeks purple,
the veins of his neck and temples
sculptured as he took a threatening
step toward the group, which fell back
before the physical rage of the man,
all except the vice-chief, his mouth a
| thin, ashy line, who held his own.
“You cowards!" Wasterllng thun
dered. "Retreat when ws have fir*
: millions to their three I “
"We have not that odds now." replied
1 the parchment voice. "All thetr men
are engaged. They have caught us at
a disadvantage, nnable to use our num
bers except In detail In trying to hold
on In face of—”
"1 tell you we cannot retreat!" Wes
terllng Interrupted. "That Is the end.
1 know what you do not know, I am
tn touch with the government. Yea, I
know— *
This brought fresh alarm Into faces
which had become set tn grim stoicism
by many alarms. If the people were In
Ignorance of the losses and the army
' In Ignorance of the nation's feeling,
the officers of the staff were no less In
Ignorance of what passed over the
long-distance wire between the chief
of staff and the premier.
"1 know wlikt fa best—l alone!“
Westerllng continued, driving home hts
, point. "Tell our commanders to hold.
Neither general nor man It to budge.
They are to stick to the death. Any
one who doee not I shall hold up to
publto shame as a poltroon. Who
knows but Lanstron's sttack may be
a council of desperation? The Browne
B>*l hv worn*.off jhau we are. UoliL
hold! If we are tired, they are tired.
Frequently It takes only an ounce more
of resolution to turn the tide of battle.
Hold, hold! To-morrow will tell a dif
ferent story! We are going to win
yet! Yes, we are going to win!"
“It Is for you to decide. Your Excel
lency,” said Turcas, slowly and pre
cisely. “You take the responsibility.”
“I take tho responsibility. I am In
command!" replied Westerling in un
flinching pose.
“Yes. Your Excellency.”
And they filed out of the room, leav
ing him to his isolation.
• ••*•• •
After Marta had learned, over the
telephone, from Lanstron of the cer
tain repulse of the Gray assault, fatigue
.—sheer physical fatigue such as made
soldiers drop dead In slumber on tho
earth, their packs still on their backs
overcame her. Her work was done.
The demands of nature overwhelmed
her faculties. She slept with a nervous
twitching of her muscles, a restless
tossing of her lithe body, until ham
mers began beating on ’her temples,
beating, beating with tho sound of
shell bursts, os If to warn her that pun
ishment for her share in the killing
was to be the eternal concussion of
battle In her cars. At length she real
ized that the cannonading was real.
Hastening out-of-doors, sb her
glance swept toward tho range she saw
bursts of shrapnel smoke from the
guns of the Browns nearer than since
the fighting had begun on the main
line, and these were directed at bodies
of Infantry that were in confused re
treat down the slopes, while all traffic
on the pass road was moving toward
the rear. Impelled by a new appre
hension she hurried to the tunnel.
Lanstron answered her promptly In a
voice that had a ring of relief and Joy
In place of tho tension that had char
acterized It since the outbreak of the
war.
“Thanks to you, Marta!" he cried.
"Everything goes back to you—thanks
to you came this chance to attack, and
we are succeeding at every point! You
are the general, you the maker of vic
tories!”
"Yea, the general of still more kill
ing!" ehe cried In Indignation. "Why
have you gone on with the slaughter?
I did not help you for this. Why?’"
No reply came. She poured out
more questions, and still no reply. She
pressed the button and tried again, but
she might as welt have been talking
over a dead wire.
• ••*•• •
One man alone against the tide—
rather, the man who has seen a tide
rise at his orders now finding all Its
sweep against him —Westerllng, accus
tomed to have millions of men move
at his command, found himself, cne
nmn out of the millions, still and help
loss while they moved of their own Im
pulses.
As news of positions lost came In.
ho could only grimly repeat, "Hold!
Toll them to hold!” fruitlessly, like ad
jurations to the wind to cease blowing.
The bell of the long distance kept
ringing unheeded, until at last his aide
came to say that the premier must
speak either to him or to the vice-
Chief. Westerllng staggered to his
feet and with lurching steps went Into
the closet. There he sank down on the
chair In a heap, staring at the tele
phone mouthpiece. Again the bell rang.
Clenching his hands In a rocking ef
fort, he was abls to stiffen his spine
once more as he took down the re
ceiver. To admit deteat to the pre
mier—no, he was not ready for that
yet.
"The truth Is out!” said the premier
without any break tn hts voice and
with the fatalism of ona who never
allows himself to blink a fact. “Teleg
raphers at the front who got oat of
touch with the staff were still In touch
with the eapltsl. Once the reports be
gan to come, they poured In—decima
tion of the attacking column, panic
and retreat tn other portions of the
line—chaos!”
‘it's a lie!" Westerllng declared
vehemently.
“The news has reached the press,"
the premier proceeded. "Editions are
already In the streets."
"What! Where Is your censorship?"
gasped Westerllng.
"It is helpless, a straw protesting
against a current,” the premier re
plied. "A censorship goes back to
physical force, as every law does In
the end —to the police and the army;
and all. these days, finally to publlo
opinion. After weeks of secrecy, of re
ported successes, when nobody really
knew what was happening, thta sudden
disillusioning announcement of the
truth has sent the publlo mad.“
"It Is your business to control the
public!" complained Westerllng.
"With what, now? With a speech or
a lullaby? As well could you stop the
retreat with your naked hands. My
business to control the public, yes, but
not unleas you win victories. I gave
you the soldiers. We have nothing but
police here, and I tell you that the pub
lic le In a mob rage—the whole public,
bankers and business and professional
men Included. I have just ordered the
atoch exchange and %U ban k> closed.,”
To be continued tomorrow
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
Markets
Middling closed today B%c.
Tone—Firm.
Middling last year 13%c.
closing Quotations
Close.
Low middling 8%
Strict low middling 8
Middling 8%
Htrict middling s%
Good middling 8%
Previous Day’s Figures.
Low middling 8
strict low middling 8%
Middling 8%
Htrlct middling 8%
GoQd middling 8%
Receipts for Week.
_ Sales. Spin. Shlp't
Saturday 45(j 8 1063
Monday 4196 2437 341
Tuesday 383 89 480
Wednesday. . . .3098 1624 743
Thursday 2813 1778 277
Total 16473 1042 - 2176
Comparative Keceipts.
1913 3914
Saturday 2992 1879
Monday _, 25
Tuesday 3445 2706
Wednesday 11l 755
Thursday 49 624
Friday
Total 285 3037
Stocks and Receipts
Stock In Augusta, 1913 20,570
Stock In Augusta, 1914 23,934
Kec. since Sept. 1, 1913 32,580
Kee. since Sept. 1, 1914 23,696
Augusta Daily Receipts.
1913 1914
Georgia Railroad 489 236
Southern Railway Co 389 111
Augusta Southern 61 211
Augusta-Alken Ry. Co. ... 62 14
('en. of Ga. R. It 303 340
Georgia & Florida 81 118
C. & W. C. Ry 323 145
A. ,C. L. R 58 120
Wagon 334 206
Canal
River .
Net receipts 2100 1365
Through 383 213
Total 2438 1778
Port Receipts.
Today. Lest Yr.
Galveston 5181 9875
New Orleans 627 2806
Mobile 282 926
Savannah 2698 14455
Charleston 1641 5335
Wilmington
Norfolk 331 635
Interior Receipts.
„ , ToTday. Last Yr.
Houston 13396
Memphis 449
$100,000,000
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$18,000,000 6% Revenue Bonds due September 1, 1916
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LIVERPOOL COTTON
Liverpool.—Cotton spot, in moderate
demand, prices 20 points lower; middling
fair 6.84; good middling 6.36; middling
o. ow middling 5.32; good ordinary
4.:* ordinary 3.72.
Hales 3,900 bales, including 3,000 Am
erican on tiie basis of 5.80 d for middling.
Imports 2 t 074 bales Including 1,211 Am
erican.
CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET
Chicago, Ills.—Wheat prices recovered
today from an early dip that resulted
from a selling drive by pit speculators.
After opening 1-2 lower to 1-4 up values
declined 1-2 to 3-4 all around but then
made a recovery In full.
Com swayed with wheat. The open
ing, which ranged from 1 7-8 off to 1-4
advance, was followed by an upturn that
offset most of the loss.
Oats met a moderate setback.
Higher values for hogs lifted provis
ions.
Reports that Germany had conditional
ly accepted President Wilson's offer of
mediation led to a break in wheat. It
closed unsettled, 1 3-4 to - cents under
last night.
Corn closed nervous 1 3-8 to 1 3-4 net
lower.
Open. High. Low. Close
WHEAT—
Sept .... 10814 10814 107 10714
Dec .... 11114 IHI4 109 110
May .... 11814 119 116 116%
CORN—
Dec ... . 72% 7214 7214 70%
May .... 74% 75% 72% 73%
OATS—
Dec .... 5014 50% 49% 49%
May .... 53% 53% 52% 52%
PORK—
Jan . . . .2087 2090 2050 2055
LARD—
Oct ... . 952 957 940 945
Jan . . . .1017 1017 1000 1000
RIBS—
Oct . . . .1107 1107 1080 1090
Jan . . . .1085 1082 1065 1067
COMBINATION 111
NIL STORES?
Attorney General Denies An
nouncement That He Would
Not Consider it Law Violation
Washington, D.C.—Department of Jus
tice offcials today denied a rep</rt that
Attorney General Gregory had an
nounced he would not consider a general
marketing organization of naval stores
factors and operators to be in violation
of the Sherman law. It was said opera
tors who sought the department’s opin
ion merely were informed taht the at
torney general never gives opinions ex
cept to the President and other cabinet
offiers.
Officials explained today that the de
partment could not bind itself not to
prosecute when it has no assurance
that the law may not be broken in many
ways. If the combination of naval
stores men is formed the department’s
atitude will be determined wholly by
the character and acts of the organiza
tion.
THE 20 0,0 0 0
PRISONERS OF
CZAR IRK
Are Being Rapidly Distributed
in Rural Districts---Must
Labor to Insure Their Ex
istence
Petrograd, via. London, 5:25 a. m.—
The Bourse Gazette states that up to
a few days ago the Russians held 200,-
000 prisoners who are being rapidly
distributed to many distant districts.
Most of them are being given labor,
thousands being used on the railways,
others are helping with the harvest
and many have been sent to Turke
stan for work on the drainage sys
tem.
The minister of agriculture has is
sued the following statement regard
ing the prisoners:
“The prisoners must work to insure
existence.
Will Be Paid.
"We shall pay for the work done but
our position is not that of ordinary em
ployers. Our prisoners must work, in
return for which we shall support and
feed them.”
Colonel Shumsky, the military critic
of the Bourse Gazette, says:
“It is believed the Austrian atid
German general staffs are undertaking
a new concentration, probably in Cra
cow, of between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000
men.”
LIVESTOCK MARKET
CHICAGO CATTLE, HOGS. SHEEP
Chicago, Ills. —Hogs: Receipts 12,000;
higher.
Bulk of sales $ 8.50@$ 9.00
Light 8.85(g) 9.50
Mixed 8.45(g) 9.55
Heavy 8.15(g) 9.25
Rough 8.15(g) 8.30
Pigs 5.00(g) 8.70
Cattle: Receipts 4,000; slow.
Beeves $ 7.00(g)$11.00
Steers 6.35(g) 9.25
Stockers and feeders 5.50(g) 8.35
Cows and heifers 3.70(g) 9.30
Calves 8.50(g) 12.50
Sheep: Receipts 18,000; firm.
Sheep $ 5.50(g)$ 6.25
Lambs 7.40(g) 9.00
Yearlings 6.25(g) 7.35
Use Herald “Wants”
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER IT
THE KRONPRINZ
WILHELM NOT
SUNK; A LIE
Pilot Nichols Brought Story of
Sinking of the German Liner
By British Cruiser
New York. —A circumstantial story
of the sinking of the North German
Lloyd liner Kronprinz Wilhelm by the
British cruiser Lancaster, brought Into
port by Pilot McCarthy, aboard the
Norwegian freight steamer Hermod,
was proved today to be untrue. Mc-
Carthy said the story had been told
to him by Pilot Nichols, who yester
day boarded the warship off Ambrose
Channel Lightship. Nichols admitted
to newspaper men thi safternoon that
he had told such a story to McCarthy
and several persons but confessed he
had been romancing.
"There is not one word of truth in
the story,” said Nichols. “I boarded
a British cruiser yesterday and gave
the men some newspapers, but as a
matter of fact I do not even know the
name of the cruiser. I got no news
of any kind from the officers and men
aboard.
“When I returned I told several per
sons that I had been informed that
the Lancaster had met and sunk the
Kronprinz Wilhelm. I did not know
the story would get into the news
papers.”
HARDWICK PUSHES
BILL IN HOUSE
Atlanta. —Dispatches from Wash
ington indicate that the federal reserve
banks will be in operation within 30
days.
Senator Hoke Smith has telegraphed
the Georgia Bankers’ Association to
•send a representative to Washington
to confer with the new reserve board
and prepare for the opening.
The Smith amendment to the Ald
rich-Vreeland bill, to permit state
banks to issue emergency currency
the same as national banks, is before
the house. Congressman Hardwick
urged it vigorously yesterday after
noon and believes it will soon pass.