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VOLUME XIX, No. 320.
Is Intervention
Now Possible ?’
Co-operation of the Nether
lands and United States Urg
ed. Now is the Time to Act
in Offer of Mediation, De
clares Editorial.
HAS NOT THE MOMENT
COME TO SAVE WHAT
CAN BE SAVED IN WAR?
Winter Approaching, Misery
Incredible, Dead on Battle
fields Piling Up, the Innocent
Suffering From Starvation
and Illness.
Amsterdam, (via The Hague and
London, 3:50 a. m.) —The Handelsblad
tonight prints an editorial headed "Is
intervention possible?" in which it
urges the co-operation of the Queen
of the Netherlands and President
Woodrow Wilson, of the Uinted States
in using the “psychological moment” to
offer mediation by these two neutral
nations.
"Since in three and a half months
the peoples of Europe and Asia have
been drawn into a war of which the
original issues now have been forgot
ten,” says the editorial, “future ideal
results are impossible. The war is
fast degenerating in a purposeless con
flict calling upon all the worst pas
sions of all the nations.
Has Not Moment Come?
“Winter is approaching and the mis
ery everywhere is incredible. The num
ber of dead on the battlefields is being
Increased by numbers of Innocent peo
ple who are suffering from illness and
starvation. Has not the moment come
to save what can be saved?
Tha Two Countries.
"Two countries are plainly indicated
as the ones which should make the
first attempt. They are the kingdom
of the Netherlands and the United
States —the Netherlands hecause this
country, without enemies for centuries
has been the center of the develop
ment of international laws; the Unit
ed States because through its geo
graphical situation and universally ap
preciated sentiments and principles, its
much honored president can offer his
services without arousing suspicions
on the part of any of the warring na
tions.
On Way to America.
“This is the moment to act. The
American minister at The Hague who
is thoroughly familiar with the inter
nal working of European politics, is
on his way to America where he en
joys the entire confidence of the Am
erican government. Queen Wilhel
mina 1s respected in America as well
as beloved. The Dutch. minister of
foreign affairs is well known and he la
esteemed In America.
Coming Generations.
“The possibility which now Is offered
may never return. The time has come
to act immediately and coming genera
tions will thank the queen and the
president for their courage to say the
first mighty word which will show the
peoples of Europe the way to lasting
peace.”
EAST ATTEMPT BY
GERMAN, DESPERATE
Advance of Russians Into East Prussia Compelled a Double
Offensive With Failure of Both. Berlin Proud of Skill
Shown in Retreat From Warsaw. Nearly Won in Emula
tion of Stonewall Jackson’s Famous Flanking Moves.
London, 4:65 a. me—The PetrogTad
correspondent of The Times send* the
following:
“According to the Army Messenger
the German plans against the Russians
have failed completely. The advance
of the Russians into East Prussia com
pelled the Germans to assume a double
offensive—from Thorn, to induce the
Invaders to withdraw from East Prus
sia and from Cracow, Galicia. Both
attempts failed. The Russian armies,
thanks to the continuous and übiquit
ous pressure they have been able to
apply, have retained the fullest free
dom of action and have been able to
choose the points where they wished
to deliver their attacks."
To Divert Russians.
London, 10:23 a. m. —Contrary to ex
pectations the coming of winter seems
to have had more effect on the opera
tions on the western battle front than
In the east. Here the Germans are
making desperate efforts to divert the
Russians from East Prussia by re
suming a vigorous offensive at two
points near the center of this long
frontier line.
Th« Warsa w Retreat.
Rerlin experts. Judging from the re
ports reaching London, have been dis
cussing the German retreat from War
saw with great candor. They declare
they are as proud of the skill with
which this movement was accomplish
ed as ar the English of their retire
ment from the battle of Mons. They
Don’t Be Mean To Your Dollar. If It Wants To Stay In Augusta, Let It Stay. Live At Home
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
THE ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMES.
MOO CAPTIVES
IS CLAIM OF
AUSTRIANS
London, 4:15 a. m.—A despatch from
Vienna via Amsterdam to Reuter's
Telegraph Company contains an of
ficial army order issued by field Mar
shall Oskar Potiorek, commanding the
Austrian troops operating against the
Servians. The order reads:
“After nine days severe fighting
against an obstinate and numerically
superior enemy the brave troops of
the fifth and sixth corps have reached
Kulnbara and forced the enemy to
flight. Over 8,000 prisoners, 42 can
non, 31 machine guns and numerous
war material were captured.”
TURKS INFLICT
SEVERE LOSSES
Russian Forces in the Caucasus
Receive Check. Advance Ends
in Direction of Erzerum.
London, 9:50 a. m. —A Sofia despatch
to Reuter's Telegram Company gives
an official statement Issued at Con
stantinople on Nov. 15. It says:
"Turkish troops attacked the Rus
sian position at Dylan, situated in the
proximitv of the Russian frontier a
short distance from the sea, and the
Russians suffered severe losses. The
Russinns attempted the landing of
troops which, however, were dispersed.
"Another Turkish detachment oc
cupied Duz Keuy and surrounded the
Russians at Hanmedreszi, capturing a
quantity of ammunition and provis
ions.
'The Russians bombarded today,
without result, the frontier posts of
Kokmush and Abislah.”
Confirmed,
Petrograd. —The general 'staff of th«
Caucasian army has issued a com
munication confirming the report from
Turkish sources that the Russians had
received a check near Erzerum. It
says:
"The march of our advance guard
in the direction of Erzerum has end
ed. This march was dictated not by
conditions of war, but only to fulfill
the task imposed on our advance
guard."
The communication tells of a num
ber of Russian successes on the march
in Turkish Armenia and declares that
the Turkish offensive against the Rus
sian force on the route along the coast
has failed. The Turks in this move
ment it is declared, met with serious
losses and their reserves were annihi
lated.
admit also that the efforts of the Ger
mans to emulate General 'Stonewall"
Jackson's famous flanking movement
failed of success by a narrow margin
and only because the Russians were
not caught napping.
Advantage of Positions.
The Germans seem confident of a
favorable outcome to their renewed of
fensive movement ‘near the river
W’arthe and their ability to resume the
aggressive shows strikingly the ad
vantage which the possession of a
strategic position gives a warring
power.
IN LESS THAN AN HOUR,
3,000 GERMAN DEAD OF
ONE REGIMENT AT YPRES
London. 4:50 a. m.-The following sstory of the wiping out of 3,000 Ger
mans comes from a wounded soldier from the Ypres front:
"The fighting at Vpres was terrible In violence. For forty hours we fought
foot to foot with the enemy, employing every resource of Infantry and artll
ery. On Sunday » regiment of 3, 000 Germans attacked our position A- a
distance of 31" yards our artillery opened a terrible fire and mowed them
down They recoiled hut reformed and returned This time they reached the
hundred-'ard mark- and again recoiled and re-frg-med With only a third of
their original strength they advanced again. Our officers ordered us to hold
our fire and let them advance. At twenty yard* the order came to 'let them
have It.' We did and the German regiment ceased to exist.
“In less than an hour 3,000 men had been exterminated."
AUGUSTA. GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 17, 1914.
CROWN PRINCE FRIEDRICH WILHELM OF GERMANY AND HIS STAFF
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NEAR BATTLE LINE
The famous German Crown Trlnce is here shown on the extreme right. The picture was taken In an unpretentious building nenr the battle line,
where the Prince and his staff were quartered.
The Crown Prince at the beginning of the war commanded one of the German armies Rent against France. It Is announced now thnt the Crown
Prince has assumed supreme command of the Teutonic forces on the Russian front.
THOROUGHLY INOCULATED WITH SPIRIT OF LIVING AT
HOME,PUBLIC TURNING ATTENTION TO VARIED DISPLAYS
ON BROAD ST.TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HOME PRODUCTS
Industrial Exposition Which
Opened Yesterday is Today
in Full Swing and Attracting
Crowds.
MARKET HEADQUARTERS
READY FOR VISITORS
I
Every Day This Week An Im- ■
portant Day, But Saturday
When the Farmers Gome,
Bringing Country Produce to
Open Air Market, to be Cli
max.——The Movement Well
Launched.
Augusta's industrial and home exposi
tion opened yesterday.
Live at Home, Trade at Home, Made
at Home Week is now on and the move
ment well launched.
Yesterday afternoon—ln fact, all day
yesterday—there were more people on
the business streets of Augusta than on
any week day for some time past, the
tTowds attracted by the exhibits in the
show windows of Augusta-made goods;
and this morning the people were out
again. It will be the same all week,
only It is expected that as the week
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40,000 BURIED IN GRAVE
4 MILES LONG, IN 1 DAY.
Amsterdam, vit London, 8 a. m.
—The Nleuwa Kotterdamsche
Courant quotes a letter from a
Galician priest stating that 40,000
Austrians have been burled In one
day In a grave six and one half
feet wide and a little more than
four miles long. The bodies, the
letter says, were laid next to each
other In three layers. These men
were killed. It Is stated, during a
battle lasting only a few hours.
TERRIBLE WEATHER
FLOODS TRENCHES
Heavy Rain for 36 HoursJ
Roads All Quagmires. Low- 1
lands Covered With Water. |
Brush and Straw Protect the
Troops. Dixmude Entirely;
Destroyed. Artillery Battle
Continues.
London, 1:22 p. m, —Germany's
remarkably persistent offensive In
blizzard-swept Flanders in the
west and the stability of her hasty
defense along her eastern frontier,
were issues ,the outcome of which
still was undecided today In the
great European war.
In Flanders the Allied line re
fuses to yield while In the east the
Russians continue to push for
ward. The battle line in France
seems for the time being forgot
ten and the aVtlons there probably
will continue to be of a sporadic
nature until the Allies In Flanders
prove conclusively that they can
not be battered in, or until the
Germans by some mighty effort
prove that they can.
Artillery Again.
Ameterdam, via. London. 7:20 a. m.—
The correspondent at Slulst,
Netherlands, states that artillery was
again audible yesterday and that the
Germans are renewing their efforts to
cross the Yser near Nleunort, The
weather is Improving.
Dixmude, including the villages on
Its environs, has been entirely de
•troyed.
On Hunday the windows at Hluif)
were shaken by explosions beyond the
border where, It was reported yester
day, bridges are again being blown
up.
Foarful Condition*. •
London, 4:46 a. m. —All reports from
the scene of fighting In northern
France Indicate that the weather con
ditions for the past few days have
been terrible. Heavy rain, falling con
tinuously for 34 hours, has turned all
the roads Into quagmires while the
trenches are flooded and the lowlands
everywhere are largely covered by wa
ter Everything possible Is being done
to make the troops comfortable, to pre
vent their being flooded out of the
trenches and to avoid cave-ins. The
trenchce are being shored and braced
and the bottoms covered with brush
and straw. Meanwhile the artillery
battle continues
|Sir IT'S INSULT
TO SWITZERLAND
I
No Secret Convention With
Austria and Germany to Sup
port Army in Italy Invasion.
Berlin, via. Paris, 12:56 a. m.—Re
peated statements appearing In the
Italian press, that Switzerland had en
tered into a secret convention with
Austria and Germany, binding herself
to support with her army an Invasion
of northerji Italy and to permit an
Austro-German force to pass through
Switzerland In the event of Italy aban
doning her neutrality In favor of the
triple entente, have brought forth a
strong protest from the Swiss gov -
ernment. The exlstenec of any such
convention Is denied and It. Is declared
that the reports are an Insult to Swit
zerland and her army.
OFFICIAL BULLETINS
FRENCH
Paris, 2:40 p. m.—The following of
ficial communication was given out In
Paris this afternoon:
“From Nleuport lo Dixmude and in
the region of Vpyres the cannopadlng
has been resumed with greater vio
lence than In the preceding days The
enemy was compelled to evacuate a
portion of his trenches which had been
filled by the waters. (
"Two attacks of German Infantry
resulted In failure. On our side wo
have made progress between lilx
achoote and the canal.
"Between Arrnentlere* arid 1-aßassee
there has hen an artillery duel con
ducted with great spirit.”
SAYS GERMAN CASUALTIES
100,000 IN PAST FOUR DAYS
London, 6:29 a. m. Telegraphing from Dunkirk, France, the cor
respondent of the Dslly Mail says:
"There was heavy fighting around Ypres Monday. The casualties
were large but the battle resulted In excellent progress for the allies.
"The German casualties are estimated at 100,000 In the past four
days."
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SITUATION AT
CRACOW, ENIGMA
I
jOne Report Says City in
Flames, Another That the
j Germans Rejoin Austrian
! Garrison.
London, 1025 a. m. The actual sit
uation In Cracow Is becoming one of
the many enigmas of the war. tine
report has the Ruslans actually In
vesting the town, which is declared to
bo in flames, while several reports
have reached London that the Ger
mans have left the defense of Cra
cow to the Austrians who In their
turn are expected to surrender rather
than have the city bombarded. The
latest reports from Petrograd howev
er declare that the gjerman forces
have rejoined the Austrian garrison in
the defense of the Cracow fortress,
which some experts pronounce to lie
the key to the easiest road Into the
province of Kilesta.
PITTSBURGH TO FURNIBH
BTEEL, 1,000,000 SHELLB.
Pittsburgh,. Pa.—An order for
18,000 tons of steel bars to be con
verted Into shells for use In the
European war has bean placed
with a local manufacturing com
pany, It became known here today.
Officials of the company admit
ted receipt of such an order, but
refused to disclose the Identity of
the nation from which It had been
recHved. According to estimates,
the consignment will furnish al
most 1,000,000 shells for projec
tiles.
GERMAN
Berlin, (by wireless to London, 1:07
p, m.|» German army headquarters
gave out an official report this after
noon as follows:
"Generally speaking yesterday pass
ed quietly In the western arena 'if (he
war. t To the south of Verdun and to
the notheast of fley the French made
several attacks whclh, however were
unsuccessful.
"Operations In the eastern arena
made further favorable progress but
detailed reports are not yet at hand."
HOME
EDITION
WORST IS OVER;
NOW FDR 800111
IN MI
Serious Effects of Europe’s
War on American Business
Have Passed Declare Govern
ment Officials at Washington
Washington. —Officials of the iaS
f'us government departments in touch
with the country’s business activities
feel confident that the most serious
effects of the European war on Amer
ican business has passed. The resto
ration of the credit lialauce with Ku
rope, the Increasing demand for Amer
ican food supplies and the sudden de
velopment of an abnormal trade In .ar
ticles needed by the armies now In tile
field have helped conditions.
Over $200,000,000.
No nccurate figures on the contracts
of the latter character are obtainable,
but orders for horses, mules, army
clothing, harness and the like have
flooded factories and stockmen' In some
districts. It is said thnt, including am
munition orders, this business reaches
the huge total of over $200,000,000. In
several lines factories are straining to
highest capacity to meet the demands.
Other Factors.
Other factors which have aided In
clearing up the situation are the open
ing of the federal reserve bank sys
tem, upon which business experts look
ns the bnekbohe of the country's re
sources, the opening of the Panama
canal, which already has Increased
freight traffic to the west coast of
.South America, and the entry of more
than eighty foreign-built ships Into
American registry under the emergen
cy law passed at toe last session of
congress.
Steady Increase.
Of the shipping situation, officials
said today there was a growing scar
city or carriers for American export
commerce because the hulk of traffic
was Increasing so steadily. Freight
rates have risen remarkably and it was
said shipping companies now were se
lecting their cargoes with the great
est care, avoiding all articles of even
semi-contraband nature.
Huge shipments of grain arc await
ing transportation at many ports. It
appears probable this condition will
result In renewed activity In hclnilf of
the administration federal merchant
marine bill when congress re-nssem
blqg next month, although the com
plexion of the house of representatives
whb h the democrats control by a nar
row margin, makes the result doubt
ful. There was vigorous opposition to
the bill last session by many demo
crats.
1,010 ENGLISH
DEAD BT TURNS
, London, 7:18 a. m.—A despatch from
( orstuntlnnple via Amsterdam to Reu-
W*r it Telegram Company give* an of
flcial communication I ■•tied by the Turk-
Ihli war office. It nay*:
“Yesterday we attacked the ISnglish
near Fao on the coast of the Province
of Basra In the Persian Gulf. They
lent ft bout a thousand In dead.
“The revolutionary leader Abdur Re
sale, crossed |he frontier with .100 men
lo assist the Russia ns but was dis
pensed by our troops and many of his
followers were killed.
“A Russian standard ban been cap
tured.”
PRESIDENT INVITED 30UTH.
Washington, D. C.— President Wil
son today was invited to visit Mobile.
Ala., and gulf coast cities this winter
by Dr. Heale Harris, representing the *
Mobile Chamber of commerce The
President said he was uncertain’
whether public business would allow
him to make the trip.
THERE ARE
32
Shopping Days
Before Xmas
Read Herald ads and
rail for advertised
goods if you want the
pick of styles and
bargains.
When shopping In Augusta
tomorrow Boyt “I Saw It in
Tho Herald.” It will pay.
Try It.