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RUSSIANS CHECK
GERMAN ADVANCE
Czar’s Armies Are]|Beginning To Control
The Situation In East
Prussia
BATTLE OF THE AISNE
Continued in France Between Ger
mans and Allied Armies for
Ten Days
For ten days the armies of Germany
and the allied armies of Great Britain
and France have been struggling
against each other in the northern
part of France with no definite results.
The Germans are strongly entrenched
in the mountains In the region of the
Noyon, northwest of Paris. Their bat
tle line extends to the river Meuse,
north of the Verdun. Reinforcements,
probably from Lorraine, have greatly
strengthened their ranks In Galicia
the Russians have checked the armies
of Germany. They have, also begun an
assault on the fort at Przemsyl, the
last stronghold of the Austrians in Ga
licia. The Japanese armies marching
on Kiao-Chow, a fortified city of the
German possessions in China, have
met and defeated a detachment of the
Germany army in China.
Allies Win Battle of Marne.
When the German armies Invaded
France from Belgium they swept the
allies before them and pushed steadily
forward until they were almost under
the walls of Paris. Then the tide of
the battle turned. Tire allies were the
pursuers and the Germans the pursued.
This was known as the battle of the
Marne. The battle ended when the
Germans had been driven north of the
Aisne river and the allies were the
victors.
Three Million Men Engaged.
It is predicted that the battle of the
Aisne will be even more appalling
than the battle of the Marne. Military
experts estimate that there are nearly
3,000,000 men assembled on a buttle
line about 110 miles long. Thousands
of lives will be sacrificed in the at
tempt of the armies of the defenders
to push the invaders out of France.
The Germans have left a sufficient
force in Belgium to protect their re
treat through that country in the
event they are forced to fall back.
Reinforcements For Germans.
Word has been received that Ger
many lias recalled the armies she sent
from the north of France and Belgium
to East Prussia to check the onward
rush of the Czar's armies through
East Prussia, and will send them to
the assistance of the Germans in
France.
Move For Peace Is On.
The negotiations that have been go
ing on between the United States and
Germany with regard to a movement
for peace have given little encourage
ment. Von Bethmann-Hollwegg, the
imperial chancellor of Germany, has
suggested to United States Ambassa
dor Gerard at Berlin that the United
States secure terms of peace from
Great Britain, France and Russia.
"Germany,” he said, "wants permanent
peace and protection from further war
fare.” President Wilson announced he
would continue ills efforts along this
line.
Russians Moving Forward.
Undaunted by the former defeat at
Konigsberg, in East Prussia, the Rus
sians are preparing to take advantage
of the withdrawal of a large portion of
the German soldiers in that vicinity,
who have been ordered to the relief
of the Kaiser’s armies in France, and
are planning another assault on Ko
nigsberg. The Russians are also en
joying victories against the Austro-
German armies in Poland. The armies
of the Czar in Galicia and Poland are
already marching on Berlin and in the
event they are successful in defeating
the Germans in East Prussia it will
be only a short time before there will
be three great armies pushing their
way to Berlin.
Fighting Spreads to Asia
The European war during the past
week spread to Asia and Africa. The
Japanese, who declared war against
Germany several weeks ago, have be
gun an attack on the German posses
sions in China. The British forces
in Africa have begun a campaign
against the Germans in Africa.
Austria In Deep Gloom.
Tile deepest gloom overspreads Aus
tria. The government has called the
last reserves to the colors. News of
victories over the Servians was given
out to the people of Austria, but this
has not helped to dispell the depres
sion caused by the continual defeats
suffered by their soldiers fighting the
Russians in Galicia. Vienna lives in
constant fear that the Russians will
change their course in Galicia and in
stead of continuing on to Berlin they
will encircle the Carpathians and be
siege Ute capital of the dual-monarehy.
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The magnificent cathedral of Louvain, the interior of which was utterly
wrecked by the German troops, although the outer walls remain standing. At
the right is the beautiful old hotel de ville, or town hall, which almost alone
of the city's buildings was spared
Petrograd.—The official statement
from the chief of general staff says
that the Russians are bombarding the
fortress of Przemsyl, whose artillery
has opened fire.
The statement follows:
"Austrian troops which attempted
to check our advance In front of Bara
now and Ranirhow (Galicia- were re
pulsed with heavy losses.
"Fighting is going on against the
garrison at Przemsyl, who have re
plied with artillery fire.
“Russian troops crossing the forest
are finding batteries abandoned by the
Austrians.”
New York. —Col. Nicolai Golejewski,
military attache of the Russian embas
sy, gave out an official statement from
his headquarters here as follows:
"In Eastern Prussia General Rennen
kampf finally has checked the German
advance.
“In Austria we are continuing the
pursuit of the enemy. Our troops have
drawn near the fortress of Przemsyl
and the fortifications of Sleniawa (Sl
niava) and Yaroslaw (Jaroslau).
British and Germans Lose Ships
London.- There has not been a gun
fired in the North Sea for days, so far
as the British public knows, but the
admiralty issued bulletins of import
ant encounters in far-off waters. Suc
cesses and misfortunes were chroni
cled impartially.
The German protected cruiser Ko
nigsberg caught the British light cruis
er Pegaeus, overhauling her machinery
in Zanbizar harbor and attacked and
disabled her. The British lost heav
ily and the Konigsberg was able to
steam away.
25 British Were Killed
The German cruiser, while on the
same class as the British, had more
modern guns, which outranged those
of her antagonist.
The British loss is given as twenty
five killed and eighty wounded.
The German cruiser Emden captur
ed six British merchant steamers in
the bay of Bengal in six days and sank
five of them. The Emden reappeared
at Rangoon, possibly having taken
part in other exploits, as yet not
known.
On the British side of the score was
the sinking of a German merchant
cruiser, supposed to have been the
Cap Trafalgar or the Berlin, by the
former Cunard liner Carmania familiar
to trans-Atlantic travelers, also armed
as a cruiser on September 14 in waters
which the admiralty descibes as “off
the east coast of South America.” The
British loss was small, nine killed and
twenty-six wounded. The German loss
is unknown.
Germany Urges Italy’s Aid
Rome. —Germany continues to try
to influence publie opinion with all
kinds of publications; the latest be
ing a pamphlet in Italian which has
been widely distributed and bears the
title, "The Truth About the War."
Among the collaborators of the arti
cle are Count Ernest Von Revoutlow,
the naval expert; Mathias Erberger,
leader of the clerical center in the
German reichstag, and Joseph Freder
ich Nauman and Count Oppendorf. also
members of the reichstag.
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, GEORGIA.
Kaiser Awards Many Iron Crosses
Berlin. —Denial is given the report
of the death of Col. Von Reuter, who
was in command of the German regi
ment at the time of the Zabern affair
Herr Bassermann, the noted national
liberator, member of the reichstag, who
is a corps captain, has been awarded
the iron cross and promoted to major
for bravery.
Prince August William, who is serv
ing In a minor rank, has been awarded
the iron cross. Al) the sons of the
German emperor, except Prince Adal
bert, who is in the navy, have been
so decorated.
"According to a wounded German of
ficer, now in a hospital at Cracow, the
Austrians and Hungarians fouhgt the
Russians with a courage and pugnac
ity defying description.
"One must see them,” he said, “to
appreciate the gigantic tasks they have
performed.”
British Detain Many Germans
London. —The number of “alien ene
mies" in the United Kingdom, which is
estimated at from 50,000 to 80,000, in
cluding women and children, dally be
comes a matter of more concern. Most
of the better class have received po
lice permits to remain at liberty, re
porting at stated time to the police
stations. Os these many continue in
employment, but the discharging of
clerks, teacher, governesses and serv
ants of German or Austrian birth is
becoming more common as the war
feeling grows.
Shower Arrows Upon Germans
Berlin. —A shower of steel arrows,
released by French aviators over a
mile high in the air. is the most mod
ern terror of war, according to ac
counts of German wounded, printed in
the Munich Medical Weekly. The ar
rows, which are of pressed steel, from
four to six inches long and a quarter
of an inch in diameter, have a heavy
pointed head and a skeletonized shaft.
The arrows seem to have caused more
surprise than actual damage. Only
one man was killed by a head wound
in the attack described, the others
causing flesh wounds.
Japanese Victory in China
Tokio.—Lieutenant General Kamio,
commander-in-chief of the Japanese
armies moving on Kiao-Chow, reports
that he met and repulsed a German
detachment.
The official announcement of the
skirmish says the troops, lauding at
Laoshan bay, forty miles north of Kiao-
Chow, moved southward about ten
miles and encountered the enemy In
a fortified i^sltion at Wang-Kohuang.
thirteen miles east of Tslmo.
Germans Deny Defeats
Washington.—The German embassy
received the following wireless from
Berlin:
"Al! the French-English reports of
victories of battles in France are un
true. The German retreat of the west
ern wing was a practical maneuver not
affecting the strategical position. The
French attempt to break through the
center of the German position was
victoriously repulsed.
"There is confirmation of German
successes at several points of the
long extended battlefield.
GERMAN ARMIES
SLOWLY RETREAT
Allies Are Gradually Gaining Ground In
The Struggle North Os The
Aisne River
FAMOUS CATHEDRAL RUINED
German Artillery Reduces Cathedral at
Rheims to Ruins —City is Par
tially Burned
On the Battle Front—The western
wing of the German line has been
thrust back about seven miles as a
sequel to continuous fighting day and
night.
Both armies, despite almost super
human fatigues, show the utmost de
termination not to yield an inch of
ground without a terrible struggle, but
the fresher troops at the disposal of
the allied commanders have gradually
forced the Germans to recede.
London.—The unparalleled struggle
on the river Aisne, which commenced
about a week ago, has developed into
siege operations. The two armies,
strongly entrenched, are carrying on
an artillery duel, while the infantry
makes attacks and counter attacks
which are in the nature of sorties
from a besieged fortress.
Occasionally one or the other gains
a little ground, but it is so little that
the opposing forces remain in their
trenches or take up positions in new
entrenchments- immediately behind
those from which they are driven.
It is now becoming the conviction
of military men that nothing but out
flanking movements can have any serl
ious effect on either army. The Ger
mans, according to their own official
report, have been strongly reinforced,
both on the right, where Gen. Von
Kluck is making such a stubborn stand
in almost impregnable positions on the
hills north of the Aisne, and in the
center, where the Germans are making
almost superhuman efforts to recap
ture Rheims. It is probably the de
sire to recapture this town at all costs
because of its importance as the key
to Important communications that will
improve all their connections for at
tack or retreat, that has led the Ger
mans to continue the bombardment
which has resulted in the destruction
of the famous cathedral.
Germans Destroy Famous Cathedral
London. —The Rheims correspondent
of the Daily Mail sends this story
of the damage wrought in the cathe
dral there:
"The magnificent cathedral of
Rheims. which was a national monu
ment of universal fame, now is no
more than an empty shell of charred
and blackened wall. It is not yet
known to what extent its stone work
has been weakened by the flames or
whether later it can be restored, but
it will never be what it was before.
“The fire started beteween 4 and 5
Sunday afternoon, after shells had
been crashing into the town all day.
Over five hundred fell between early
morning and sunset. A quarter of the
city, several hundred yards square, was
set afire, the flames spreading from
street to street.
“The cathedral had been turned into
a hospital for the German wounded.
Women Urge Peace Movement
Washington.—President Wilson had
before him for consideration a strong
appeal that be lead a movement to end
the war in Europe, presented to him
in behalf of fully one million women,
members of suffrage organizations in
thirteen countries, including nearly all
of those engaged in the conflict. The
plea was laid before the president by
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt of New-
York, president of the International
Woman Suffrage Alliance, and Mad
ame Rosika Schwimmer of Hungary,
secretary of the alliance. Requests
that President Wilson be urged to take
steps to help stop the warfare were
sent to the headquarters of the alliance
in London by suffrage associations in
Australia, Canada, Denmark, France,
Holland. Hungary, Italy, Norway, Rus
sia, Sweden. Great Britain, west Ger
many and the United States.
Boer General Deserts Britains
London.—Brig. Gen. Christian Fred
erick Beyers, commandant general of
the Union of South Africa's defense
forces, has resigned his post because
of his disapproval of the action of
Great Britain in sending commandoes
to conquer German Southwest Africa.
Mutinous Chinese Jailed
Honolulu. —Seventy members of the
Chinese crown of the German refugee
steamers Loougmoon, StSatesekertar
Kraetke and Gouverneur Jaeshke, of
the Hamburg-American line, were im
prisoned here on mutiny charges made
by the captains of the vessels. Jail
accommodations are taxed by the num
ber of Orientals under arrest, but the
captains of the German steamers say
they fear further trouble from the lot’
Chinese still aboard their ships. They
said the Chinese had refused to stay
aboard any longer
STATE BANKS NOT INCLUDED
BARRED FROM RECEIVING EMERG
ENCY FUNDS FROM FEDERAL
RESERVE SYSTEM
More Money for National Banks
Agreed Upon by Committee to
Help South’s Finances
Washington.—Although it is oppos
ed to admitting state banks to mem
bership in the national currency asso
ciation and thus empowering them to
secure emergency currency as provid
ed in the bill of Senator Hoke Smith,
the house banking and currency com
mittee approved a measure giving a
modicum of relief to the South.
It permitted national banks to se
cure a volume of currency secured by
rediscounts of commercial paper equal
in amount to its combined capital and
surplus.
Thus an Atlanta bank with $1,000,-
000 capital and $500,000 surplus might
secure $1,500,000 of emergency curren
cy notes by hypothecating commercial
paper.
No statement has been issued by the
comptroller of the currency since Au
gust 20 as to how much emergency
currency the banks in the cotton-pro
ducing states have taken out by that
date. Banks in thirteen Southern
states had taken out $8,768,000, while
those in six Eastern states had availed
themselves of the privilege to the ex
tent of $97,964,000.
This means that national banks in
the South were refusing to avail them
selves of the privilege for the benefit
of their customers in anything like the
proportion that Eastern banks were.
On August 20 over a billion and a
quarter of emergency currency was
stijl uncalled for.
Senators and representatives from
cotton-growing states are still intense
ly interested in working out relief
measures.
BANKS HOLDING MONEY
Secretary McAdoo Says They Are Re
fusing to Make Loans
Washington. — Secretary McAdoo
threatens to take drastic action if na
tional banks do not refrain from hoard
ing money and refusing to make loans
which the credit of their customers
justify.
He expressed himself vigorously to
Senator Lee Pomerene of Ohio, who
called to explain that an Ohio manu
facturer was threatened with having
to lay off several hundred men because
his bank, with which he had been do
ing business for years, had curtailed
his line of credit
The most numerous grievances have
been received from the South, it is
said, where bankers have been clamor
ous for Issues of emergency currency,
but, at the time, piling up legal tender
reserves far beyond the legal require
ments. A few days ago a Southern
banker applied for a deposit for public
money, but, when Secretary McAdoo
learned that his reserve was 35 per
cent, whereas his bank was in a local
ity requiring only 15 per cent, he
turned down the application in words
most vigorously expressive.
Will Meet U. S. Obligations Abroad
Washington.—After an all-day con
ference between the federal reserve
board and a committee of bankers, it
was virtually agreed that the board
will approve the bankers’ proposal for
the raising of a hundred million dollar
gold fund to be used in meeting Amer
ican obligations in Europe. This fund
will be in addition to the $80,000,000
to be raised by the bankers' New York
syndicate to meet New York City’s
obligations across the Atlantic.
Ten Persons Killed in Wreck
New Orleans. —Search was being
made for train wreckers believed to
have Caused the death of ten persons
and the Injury of thirty others, by de
railing Queen and Crescent train No.
2 at 3 a. m. at Livingston, Ala. Blood
hounds failed to pick up a trail. Some
of the injured, taken to Meridian, Miss.,
hospitals are in a serious condition,
and the death toll of the wreck may
be increased.
Lassen Peak Again Active
Redding, Cal. —After a night so mut
tering and rumbling, Lassen Peak ex
ploded. Houses at Maycomber Flat,
distant nine miles from the mountain,
were rocked. The eruption is the for
ty-eighth since May 30, and the first
that has been accompanied by an
earthquake.
War Risk Insurance Limited
Washington.—War risk insurance
will not be granted by the federal bu
reau here to vessels bound for ports
on the North sea between the latitudes
of Christiansand and Amsterdam, on
the Kategat or Baltic sea or adjacent
waters, to ports on the Adriatic or
Black seas, or on the Bosphorus, with
out special application and rates. "Ow
ing to the exceptional hazards idvolv
ed,” Director DeLanoy announced,
"we will consider these special ports
only when application is made to the
bureau.”