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ALLIES GAIN IN FIERCEST EFFORT TO OUTFLANK VON( KLUCK, BATTLING) THE WEATHER Fair tonight and Sun day. VOLUME XIX, No. 270. Bitter Fighting, Better Weather Battle ot Extraordinary Violence Raging Along West Wing of Allies in France—Germans Throw Three Army Corps Near Cracow Against Russians London, 1:07 p. m.—latest official advices at Paris, Berlin and London agree in general tenor and indicate that there are no decisive successes to record in the western arena of the war. Weather conditions have now im proved along the west wing of the allies, and, according to Paris, a bat tle of extraordinary violence is raging in that locality. Denied at Brussels. Reports continue to come into Lon don of trouble between Bavarian and Prussian troops in Brussels and It is said the German military authorities in the Belgian capital have ordered all Bavarians in Belgium to the scene of operations in France. These re ports, however, are officially denied in Brussels. Dispatches from Petrograd declare the Austrian civil government of Cra cow has been taken over by Germany. Annihilation By Ruse of Russians Austrian Battalions Cease to Exist As Bridge is Blown Up. Dead Bodies Choked the River After Pursuit Petrograd, (via London, 4:56 a. m.) — The Russkoe Slovo has obtained from wounded soldiers, it states, a description of a clever ruse whereby a small Rus sian detachment In Galicia virtually wiped out a large Austrian force. Its account says: , "According to a pre-arranged plan I several squadrons of Cossacks and artil lerymen, simulating retreat, began to full back rapiuiy under cover of the in fantry. Rose to Balt. “The Austrians rose to the bait and emerged from their trenches In pursuit, I in the direction of a small river where j companies of Russian infantry checked i the furious Austrian onslaught. Cos sacks and artillery, crossing by a bridge, began to entrench themselves on the op posite bank, posting several machine guns while the artillery hid their guns In trenches under the hushes unper ceived by the enemy. "When the preparations were com plete for the enemy’s reception, the in fantry hurriedly retreated to the oppo site hank, where they pretended to set fire to the bridge as though intending to cut off the enemy's advance. Charged Blindly. "The Austrian troops, seeing before them a small body of Russians, blindly charged. The enemy's army with shouts of victory, approached the bridge while their cavalry dasned through the river. "Suddenly a terrific explosion was hesrd and the bridge crowded with massed Austrian column*, was blown to pieces, while on the opposite bank the Russian guns and quick flrera scuttled (math among the advancing Austrians until the river was choked with bodies. "Panic stricken, the foe atempted to flee, throwing away their weapons but the Cossacks consummated the. work of rtemolltlur, fording the stream and pur suing the enemy with yells of triumph. "Half an hour later It was all over and several Austrian battalions had ceaseu to exist.” FEARFUL HARDSHIP FOR AUSTRIANS Venice, Italy, (via Paris, 4 p, ml— According to advlcss reaching her* today from Trl**i*. several thousand wounded have been brought Into that Austrian city In the paat three days. Many pub lic buildings, including theatre*, ale being converted Into hospital* A majority of the wounded come from * Halida. and they relate tale* of fearful hardship*. For days at a time they were in wet clothing and with the exception of plums they had nothing to eat The Russian* Imve captu-ed Immense quantities of wilier c othlng from the Austrian tronpa Know haa begun to fall, and the troop* in the Held are suffer ing from cold. , - THE ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES—THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMES ====== THE AUGUSTA HERALD The inhabitants of Cracow are said to he in flight. . Great Fortified Base. The city soon will cease its normal functions and be transformed into a great fortified base. According to these same sources the Germttns have thrown three army corps into the Cra cow district, in preparation for the imminent Russian attack. The Russian capital has oeen ad vised also that all traffic has been stopped between Berlin and the Bal tic ports of Danzig, Klbing and Stet tin. Another Demand. Another demand has been made by Austria for surrender of long suffer ing Belgrade. This was answered by the shelling of Austrian monitors in the river. Meantime the Balkan allies continue their attack on Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia. ANNOUNCE CHOLERA IN VIENNA Official Statement Made on Wounded Officer From Galicia—Much Dysentery at Austrian Capital Venice, via. Paris, 9:40 a. m.—A telegram from Vienna states that the minister of finance is considering the question of the payment of the cou pons of Austrian rentes, due October 1. to holders in France and England. In view of the action, It is said, taken by those countries regarding payment of debts due In Austria, It Is expected the minister will decide to withhold the payments. The first case of Asiatic cholera has been officially announced In Vi enna. It was the case of a wounded officer brought from Galicia. The pa tient has been Isolated and It is re ported that he Is recovering. Thera are a large number of cases of dysen tery in the capital. The military commander at Saraje vo, capital of Bosnia, has forbidden all ingress and egress to and irom the town without special passports. SAYS AUSTRIANS CONTINUE RETREAT New York.—Colonel Golejewskl, mil itary attache of the Russian embassy. Issued at the Russian consulate hera today the following statement, which he said h<_ had received from his gov ernment at Petrograd: “On September 23 we repulsed the attempts of the advance guard of the Germans to penetrate further to the east in the province of Suwalki. Near Schutckln and Vincent our advance troops have been successfully engaged with the enemy. In western Galicia no fighting of Importance has taken place. The Austrian army, which has been forced to evacuate Chyrow, has continued Its retreat." SEIZED GERMANS DIAMOND FIELDS London, 12:49 p. m.—The British seizure of Luederttz Bay, otherwise called Angra Pequena. Germany’s dia mond field In Southwest Africa, waa followed quickly by a German raid on the British harbor at Walflsh Bay, In Cape Colony. According to a Cape Town dispatch, these raiders are only a patrol and appear to be the advance guard of a larger force. The patrol attempted to dynumlte the Jetty at Walflah Bay and a tug moored alongalde It. but ths damage they Inf Ik led was alight. PARIS —A battle of extraordinary severity is raging at the western end of the Anglo-French and Ger man battle line in the region of Noyon, sixty miles to the north of Paris, where the French still are striving to outflank General von Kluck’s reinforced army. The French official statement issued this afternoon claims that the allied troops have made a slight advance. On the eastern end of the fighting line the French officially admit that their line has been forced back by the Germans across the river Meuse near St. Mihiel, a point about 20 miles to the south of the French fortress of Verdun. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 26. 1914. Vital Points of the Struggle in Northern France \ ONTOI^%^^ Ja=^Satg?fflSfigr' 2L \ I ) <-,JXZ MILES ''NOSEN’T-’V XV> „ \ a LX^Vsk^?* UfCMATgA^T^H>^eT'<> L An Antwerp dispatch tells of the sending of most of the German garrison In Brussels southwest to the Tournal- Ath line to prevent Interference with Gen. von Kluck's communications. 2. St. Quentin, reported taken by the French, Is a vital point In von Kluck's line as a transportation centre of Im portance. 3. Severe fighting Is still going on In the Lasslgny district, where a large force of allied troops are apparently pushing northward to help flank the German right. A As a means of diverting the attention of the French Army from the great movement on the west, large foroe# of Germans are operating vigorously s outheaet of Verdun, but apparently without much success as yet. THE COMMERCIAL ATTACHES NAMED Washington. —Under the new law authorizing commercial attaches of the United States at principal world capitals, Secretary Redfield today ap pointed the following: A. T. Harrington of Ohio to Lima, Peru: A. H. Baldwin, former chief of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, to London; Dr. Albert Hale, now with the bureau of pan-Amer ican republics, to Buenos Aires; Edwin M. Thompson of North Carolina to Berlin; J. H. Arnold, former consul general at Hankow, to Peking; Pro fessor Lincoln Hutchinson of the Uni versity of California to Rio; C. W. A. Veditz of Venice to Paris. Several more will be named later. The attaches will be the government’s business diplomats abroad. They will investigate manufacturing, Industrial and trade conditions. They are exempt from civil service requirements hut compelled to stand tests established by Secretary Red fleld. Their salaries range downward from $5,000 a year. brillianTfrench FEAT IN AFRICA Bordeaux. —Victor Augagneu, minis ter of French marine, announced the capture of Coco Beach In Africa, at the cabinet meeting tills morning. He said that previous to landing her ma rines, who dislodged the German troops on shore, ti e Surprise, a small vessel of 680 tons, unarmed snd car rying ten small guns, sunk two ves sels belonging to the German auxil iary /leet, the Rhlos and the Rale. M. Augagneur said thels capture was a brilliant exploit. AMERICAN RELEASED. London, 12:20 p. m.—James T. Ma tey, of Denver, Colo,, whose Invalid wife committed suicide In J/mdon, Au gust 8, after being driven out of an Antwerp hospital by the outbreak of hostilities, was set at liberty today at Plymouth, where he had been held as a suspect. Mr. Macey arroste' 1 after his arrival In England from Am erica In search of his mother-ln-lnw and daughter, supposed to he stranded 1n Germany. He was detained along with three other Americans until his citizenship was proved and he had ex plained th«* object of hi strip. LITTLE BRITISH UNEMPLOV MENT. Washington. The following cable gram was received by the British em bassy today from the London foreign office: "In view of the admissions which have appeared in the German press as to the unemployment caused by stoppage of German exports and im ports owing to command of sea ex ercised by British fleet, It, Is of in terest to state that unemployment sta tistics for the United Kingdom for the last three weeks show steady decrease of unemployment." APPEAL IS MADE ID CENT VILLA Brothers-in-Arms at Mexico City Ask Leader to Lay Aside Personal Differences. El Paso, Texas.—General Villa re ceived at Chihuahua Saturday an ap peal from his brothers In arms at Mexico City to lay aside his differ ences with Carranza and thus prevent another revolution. "We appeal to your patriotism and good will, inviting you to assist us la the pacification of the republic,” said the appeal. "We take for a basis the fact that there are no fundamental reasons for the new civil war.” The appeal was signed by Luclo Blanco, the Coahulla leader, first to Join Carranza in the anti-Huerta re volt; Eduardo Hay, one of the first to Join Madero in his revolution against I'orflrlo Diaz; Rafael Buelna, thfc "boy chief of the west coast, who, a youth of less than 21 years, has fought with Carranza, and I. L. Pesquelra, former governor of Honors DROP IDEA U. S. AMBULANCE SHIP London, 2:40 p. m. -Acting on the suggestion from the British war of fice, the committee In charge of Ihc American Women’s War Relief Fund has dropped the Idea for the time be ing of equipping and maintaining an ambulance ship and has Instead pre sented the medical corps with six mo tor ambulances for use at the front. In accepting this gift Enrl Kitch ener, secretary for war, Intimated there was great need for properly construct ed motor amhulsneeH which ' would make possible quick transport of wounded from the firing line. ALL ABOARD THE TAHOMA ARE SAFE Valdex, Alaska. A wireless mes sage received by the steamer Alnma da and reported here today Indicates that all the officers and crew of 72 men and others who were aboard the United Htstes revenue cutter Tohoma, wrecked near Kiskal Island, probably are safe. Those aboard the Tahoma were ob liged to use the vessel’s five whale boats covering between forty and fifty miles of open water to reach AgHim Island, where they are awaiting the steamer Cordova, an route to lake them off. BAVARIANS AND PRUSSIANS FIGHT London, 3:41 «. m.—A dpspetoh from Ghenv to the Exnre** say* the trouble between the Bavarian* and I’njHHlana In Bru**eln him continued and that all Ba varian* In Belgium are being removed. The reaentmant of the Bavarlana, It !■ fluid, la due to Insult.* alleged to have been offered by the iTiimdans to the Belgian queen, who la a Bavarian prin cess. A despatch from Amsterdam to Reut er w says, however, that, reports of fighting between the iVusslans and Bavarians are officially denied In Brus sels. PROTESTSRUIN OF WORLD FAMED ART London. —The Exchange Telegraph Company has published a dispatch from its Petrograd correspondent say ing that the well-known Russian painter, Koch Rich, director of the Im perial .Society for the Furtherance of Art, acting upon tjio unanimous vote of the council of the society, has ad dressed a. protest to the American di plomatic representative at Petrograd, against the alleged destruction by the Germans of the world-famed art monuments. The protests say that America has proved, by the establish ment. of museums and art collections, that she Is devoted to true art and she consequently cannot look lightly on the destruction of 'that which has given light to life on earth." GERMANS UNABLE TO SETTLE BILLS Bordaaux, 11150 a. m.—-A newapnpnr published hi Hhaux-de-Fonds, Hwlte iand, copies of which have Ih-eri re eel ved here, declare manufacture™ of the ( 'haux-de-Fonda region have re ceived letters from the Herman client* enabling them to settle their hllle, It being contrav to the Interest of Ger many to send money out of the coun try. Being convinced however, that the Swiss manufacturer* deslrp to see Germany triumph, the debtor* had, with the amounts due their Hwlss creditors, purchased In their name* stock In the Herman five per cent war loan. The welters nay further that they have decided to do buslne**, af ter the war, only with *uch firms as accept this arrlgement. BRYAN TO BPEAK, Asheville, N. C. Secretary of State W. 3. Hryan will tonight speak here In behalf of the democratic candidate for this, the Tenth <Congressional dis trict, where the republican* and pro gressives tiave centered upon an as pirant It will be the first speech the sec retary of stale will make In the con gressional campagn. $6.00 PER YEAR—FIVE CENTS PER COPY. The World Still Waiting Outcome Battle ot the Aisne Has Continued Now For Fortnight-Violent Fighting on French Left Wing—German Success on Heights of Meuse Paris, 8:30 a. m.—l r or fourteen days the battle of the Aisne nan continued practically without cessation and el 11 ! the world watts tor news of some de cisive result. Here and there, according to the of ficial communications, the line has given way to one side or the other, but the importance of these Incidents. If any, on the final result, Ims not yet become apparent. French Reinforcements. The latest French official statement mentions several such movements. On the French left wing to the northwest of Noyon, where the French apparent ly have been trying to outflank the German right, the advance*) French troops, It Im announced, were compell CARRANZA TD VIL L A~‘l T’S IMPOSSIBLE' First Chief Issues Long State ment Regarding Difficulties Between Himself and Gen eral---Replies to Latter’s De mands Mexico City.—Oenemi Carranza 1n n lung lftßt rdg'ht reviewed the difficult !«»h between hinmelf and <Jen ernl Villa iitatlng that the Hltuation 1* grave hut the (loriHtltiitlonulliitH are ready for any ern«frgancy. Villa, he declared, demanded Impotwdble changes In the call iHHiiod for a conference of <loriHtltutlonulist chief* on October I. Villa’* detnund*, bn *ald, were that the general conference pledge Itself to re-estnbllsh the national and state civic regimes within 30 days after the confer ence concludes Its discussion; that no present army offh’rt* shall lie eligible as n candidate for any elective office; that the Federal Htate legislature be con voked Immediately and that the electo ral college be chosen for the election of a permanent president. The Conference Itself. To these demands Carranza replied that only the conference itself wits able to take Up these questions. Regarding the cutting of the railway lines north of Aguas ('allentes. Carranza sav* this Is not a hostile but a necessary act In view of Villu s warlike prepara tion*. If anarchy comes and blood is spilled as a result of this the blame, he says, Is on the head of Villa. Nearby garrison* are assembling for transportation to Aguss Calientes. It Is reported here that. a. special train will leave Mexico City for Vera Crus to morrow night, carrying passengers book ed on steamers to sail for the north. The gxtp In the railway line to Vera CYuz, it Is reported. Is several miles In extent. RHINE CATHEDRALS FLYING BIG FLAGS Geneva, Bwitx*rland, via Pari*, 4:23 a, m. A telegram from Basel says says that as an Immediate result of the Kngllsh uerlal raid on the Ihjeaael dorf depot all cathedrals along the Rhine, especially at Colongne and Htrassliurg, are now flying large white slugs, while the dimensions of the Red Cross flags on the hospital* have been Increased, NO OBJECTION TO TRANSFER. Washington—lnstructions have been sent to all Hrltsh consuls that the gov ernment has no obleetlon to the trans fer of ships from iltillsh to American registry In cases where they have been continuously American owned, according to a statement today at the Rrltlsh embassy. The Instruction* reached Rio Janeiro Just after the steamer Robert Dollar which had been held up pending a transfer of registry, ha«l cleared. PINT6CM FAILURE. Buffalo, N. V. -I'pnn application of Hie i’lntsch Compressing Company, of New Jersey, Federal Judge Basel today appointed i>r. Alexander (1. Humphreys, of New York, and llarVy T. Itamsdell, of Buffalo, receivers of the Buffalo On* Company. The company l* capitalised at 1(1,00(1,000. Failure to pay interest on tionds was claimed In the application for the receivership. HOME EDITION ed to give a llttlf) ground, having oonvt In contact with superior forces. Fresh forces were brought up, however, arid the French offensive was vigorously resumed. The communication nays the struggle In this region has become ex tremely violent. Germans on the Meuse. Similarly, on the heights of the Meuse the Germans have had guc cesses but they have not baan able, the French communication says, to cross the liver. Ths French report, however, that on their right wing the Germans have begun to give w;vy to attacks coming from Nancy and Tout, while in the southern region of Woovre the enemy is also retiring bnt tho action con tinues. Violent Battle Rages Paris, 3:36 p. m.—Heavy, fighting is going on at bothi just aEnd West wings of thet battle between tho allies and Germans in Prance, ac cording to the official an nouncement issued this af ternoon by tho French wauj department. < ■ n*s 4 Off lots I Tax*. Paris. 3*30 p. m,—Following la ths taxg of the communication. I "First; fin our left wing, bntwwan tbg Homrne and tha Oils, tho bast la none tlnites very violently. Between the Rivwr Oise and Slossona our troops have ad anoed slightly. vThe enemy has not a4a tempted an attack. Between Hotason* and Khaims t her, has been no Important change In the eq uation. On the Center. “Second: On the rentes; between Rbaims and Verdun the situation alas Is unchanx.il. in the Woevre region tha enemy has been able to oroea the Rises Meuse In the vicinity of St. M thiol, but the offensive taken by our troops already line, to a large extent, thrown him bank upon tha river. Great German Loss. "To the south of ths Woevre region our attacks have not ceased to progress The fourteenth German army oorps has fallen buck after having suffered great losses. "Tnlrd: On our right wing On Lor raine and In the Vosges) the effective German forces seem lo have been re du< ed. These detachments of the enemy which had at certain points driven our advance posts, havs been repulsed try tha entrance Into action of our reserves. BUTTER “PRICE FIXING." Chicago.—Charles F. Clyne, United Mates district attorney, begin Inves tigation today Into complaints alleg ing that thn Elgin Butler and Egg Board Is violating the fetlnruJ Injunc tion mat raining "price fixing." SIGNS TRADE COMMISSION BILL Washington.—President Wilson Sat, urtluy signed the trade commission bill. He will nut appoint the commis sion uhtll the December session of congress. BELGIANB IN CHICAGO. Chicago.—Members of tho Belgian special commission which recently laid complains of alleged German dep redations before President Wilson, arrived here today on a sight-seeing trip.