SAYS GERMANY WILL NEVER
VIOLATE MONROE DOCTRINE
Count Von Benistorff, Ambassador From Kaiser’s Government,
Declares He Has Given United States Assurance That
If Successful In War, Law Will Be Respected.
Washington, Oct. 26.—Tho German
ambassador. Count Bernstorff, said, to
day, that early In the European war he
had assured the United States govern
ment that whatever the outcome of the
conflict, Germany would respect the
Monroe doctrine.
Count Bernstorff said he had filed
with the state department, on Septem
ber 3. soon after his arrival in this
country from Beilin, a written official
statement that Germany would not in
fringe on the Monroe doctrine, no mat
ter what the outcome of the war.
The ambassador said that his assur
ances had first been given informally
OF FIRING LINE
Relieved of Duty After Month
of Sleeplessness English Sol
diers Can’t Sleep—Their
Nerves Unstrung.
Now York, Oct. 24.—The World prints
a story replete with thrills from a
staff correspondent, who succeeded in
reaching the British front, and spent a
day and night on the firing line, where
the fighting was tiekest. The story
was passed by censors under an agree
ment that no names or places would be
given. It is impossible for that reason
to give the name of the correspondent.
The story follows:
“An English regiment that cannot
sleep—men with nerves so racked by
the terriflee struggle In the trenches
on the Aisne that they cannot bring
themselves to go to bed—Is the grim
mest spectacle I have met In this war.
I spent night and day with these men
and left them rather hysterical myself,
only a few hours ago.
“We parted company, and still it
seems to me like a bad dream from
which it is hard to wake. This regi
ment Is made up almost entirely of
Welshmen and has one of the finest
records. It was visited and congrau
iated by Field Marshal French. It has
been mentioned in official despatches
for bravery, and new it is paying the
price.
"Men did not begin to break until
after the tenseness had passed. So long
as they wore under fire they were cool
and In command of themselves, but
the position they held was so exposed
to fire that they never had a moment’s
rest and after a month, when they were
ordered back, they went to pieces."
The correspondent says that lie aided
an English captain in securing quar
ters for his men after they had been
relieved at the front by Fronch troops.
These men had been on the firing line
for a month, subjected night and day
to the terrible rain of shells from the
German artillery, never daring to re
lax their vigil, not even for a moment.
The writer says when he first met
the captain he noticed that he was ex
tremely nervous and fidgety. Others of
his command who joined him presently
displayed the same symptoms. When
beds and sleeping places had b' -sn pre
pared the men did not go to oed, but
continued to ta4k. The captain told
marvelous stories of the fighting until
the correspondent, exhausted, fell
asleep at 2 o’clock in the morning.
When he awoke two hours later the
captain still sat gazing into the fire
and smoking.
The regiment arrived at 4 o'clock in
the morning. It had been relieved by
the French at midnight. All that part
of the battle line then was French, the
English having been relieved to join
in a flanking movement to the north
west. Theirs being the most dangerous
position they were relieved last, and
within an hour of the end they pumped
rifle fire into the forward German
movement.
Now the English are out of it they
are like uneasy old women. I tried to
get them to go to bed. but by dawn
there were not more than 50 asleep.
Others had built bivouac fires in the
big court, talking and moving about
constantly. That night at dusk they re
ceived inarching orders.
JAPANESE CRUISERS
CONVOY GOLD LINER
San Francisco, Oct. 24.—The Japanese
battle cruisOT Kongo and the Japanese
armored cruiser Asama are standing
off and on outside the heads of San
Francisco harbor, Just below the hori
zon. The Toyo Kisen Kaisha liner
Shinyo Maru, which arrived here today
from Yokohama and Honolulu, brought
word that -she had been convoyed all
the way a'ccross the Pacific by tho two
warships and that, ail told. Japan has
stationed eight warships to guard the
lanes of trade between the American
Pacific eotmt and the Orient.
Just outside Honolulu the battleship
Hizen Is keeping watch, while the lit
tle German gunboat Geler is making
repairs to her machinery under the su
pervision of American naval officials.
The Shinyo Main brought $1,000,000 in
specie and bullion and would have
inado a fat prize for a German cruiser.
Honolulu, Oct. 24.—In sight of the
marine observers at the mouth of the
harbor, the Japanese battleship Hizen
captured today a small German steam
schooner, supposedly from the Marshall
Islands. Tho Hizen has at no time en
tered the territorial waters and It was
not possible to learn the prize’s name.
BRITISH STEAMER IS
SUNK_BY_SUB!ViARIf\IE
Amsterdam (via Bondon), Oct. 24.—
A dispatch from Berlin says it is offi
cially announced there that the German
submarine which sank tho British
cruiser. Hawke, has now returned
safely to port. The sinking of the Brit
ish steamer, Glitcra, by a German sub
marine near tho Norwegian coast is
also officially confirmed.
SON BOtfN TO QUEEN
VICTORIA OF SPAIN
Madrid, Oft. 24. (via Paris).—A son
was born this morning to Queen Vic
toria of Tho son born today
is the queenrs sixth child, tho others
being threi? sons and two daughters.
dais of tho state department—he could
not recall whether it was Secretary
Bryan or Counsellor Lansing. Mr.
Lansing said, today, the assurances
had not been given to him and that
he did not know of them. Secretary
Bryan is In the west, speaking in the
congressional campaign.
Tine ambassador said the statement
was made because of statements from
various English sources, that Germany,
if successful, would not respect the
Monroe doctrine and doubtless would
attempt to make a great colonization
scheme in South America.
The ambassador said that he later
put the matter in writing.
NORRIS TO PEI
Charges That Wet Interests
Showed Marked Activity
In Connection With
Revenue Bill.
Washington, Oct. 26.—Senator Norris
is busily engaged in getting the names
of all persons whom he believes should
be subpoenaed before the Senate lobby
committee and questioned about the
existence of a whisky or liquor lobby.
Senator Norris has submitted some of
the names of those he wants sub
poenaed to Senator Overman.
Senator Overman told Senator Nor
ris he would conduct the investiga
tion, but could not do it before De
cember. He asked Senator Norris to
complete his list and give it to him
December 1. Senator Norris is pur
suing this plan.
“I shall submit a list to Senator
Overman December 1,” said Senator
Norris today. “I did not have the list
completed and am working on it. I do
not expect to let the matter drop.”
Senator Norris charges there has
been an active lobby in Washington for
the purpose of protecting whisky, beer
and wine as far as possible from the
war taxes. The names he intends to
submit to Senator Overman will be in
part representatives of whisky inter
ests and in part representatives of
wine and brewing interests.
He called attention today to the fact
that after the Senate had put an in
creased tax of $1.75 on beer and a tax
on rectified spirits, the beer tax was
reduced and the whisky tax knocked
out in conference.
SAN ANTONIO SCENE
OF DISASTROUS FLOOD
Eleven Drowned, 2,000 Ren
dered Homeless and Huge
Property Damage Done.
San Antonio, Tex., Oct. 24.—Relief
work among destitute sufferers from
yesterday’s flood along San Pedro and
Alazan creeks, in which 11 persons were
drowned and 2,000 made homeless, was
well under way today.
Nearly 200 houses were swept away
and the property loss was estimated at
between $150,000 and $200,000. The flood
was confined to the low lands, where
the poorer classes lived. Several per
sons were still missing today and it
was feared the death list might be in
TRADE DOMINATED BY
EUROPEAN SITUATION
Depression In Some Lines and
Stimulation In Others Is
Traced to War.
New York, Oct. 24.—-Bradstreet's to
day says;
Cross currents in trade and finance,
domestic and foreign, give a very ir
regular appearance to commercial and
financial affairs. The war abroad is
still the dominating element in the en
tire situation and whatever dullness or,
on the other hand, stimulation, is visible
takes its rise apparently in the hostili
ties in Europe.
On the favorable side of the picture
are to be found the rather better tone
of financial matters caused by inter
national efforts to bring about a re
sumption of normal conditions in the
exchange market, the cotton export
situation and the reopening of the
stock markets.
Bank clearings for the week ending
October 22. according to Bradstreet’s
were $2,733,346,000, a decrease of 24.6
per cent from the same week last year;
business failures were 336, against 246
last year; wheat exports, Including
flour. 5.438.478 bushels, against 8,320,
388 bushels last year.
AIRSHIP MANUFACTURER
ARRESTED IN ENGLAND
■Worthing. Sussex, England, Oct. 24.—
Hermann Houder, director of the Na
tional Passenger Airship association,
was arrested and conveyed to the de
tention camp lidre.
Houder has been endeavoring to es
tablish an airship harbor in connec
tion with a proposed I.ondon conti
nental service, negotiating for 60 acres
of land near Worthing.
LAD. 16, SEEKS DIVORCE.
Dps Moines, la., Oct. 24.—Rolla Cain,
a lad of 36, today filed suit for annull
ment of marriage entered into last July.
He says lie was deceived when he mar
ried the girl and that she now seeks to
sue him for desertion.
American pianos especially adapted
for tropical climates have been intro
duced into Ceylon. Ordinary pianos
can not withstand the damp and heat.
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Iowa Commissioner Says Busi
ness Depression Affects
Shippers and Rail
roads Alike.
Washington. Oct. 26.—The hearing of
the railroads’ appeal for an increase in
rates and the protest of the shippers
to the Interstate Commerce commis
sion came to an end late yesterday
with the presentation of the statement
of Clifford Thorne, railroad commis
sioner for Iowa. Mr. Thorne acted as
counsel for several western railroad
commissions and shippers’ associations.
Arguments on the appeal will begin
next Thursday.
Mr. Thorne took the position that the
railroads have not shown that any
business depression exists which af
fects them more than the shippers and
that the proposed advance would,
therefor#, be unjust.
Mr. Thorne’s statement follows:
"The carriers are proposing a 5 per
cent advance In the freight rates not
only in official classification territory,
but in the through rates between ail
points in this eastern territory and
those states west of the Mississippi
river, which I represent. We will pay
the advances on the raw products mov
ing to the east and on the manufac
tured products moving from eastern
factories to the west. We catch it
both ways, coming and going; and we
are subject to the long hauls.
“The market prices of many of our
products are controlled by the prices at
the Atlantic coast, less freight rates.
An advance in our freight rates is
equivalent to moving our farms and in
dustries that much farther from mar
ket; it reduces our prices that much.
In the aggregate that will amount to a
very iarge sum of money. These are a
few of the reasons that I am here.
Mr. Thorne s Aim.
"My purpose is simply to help see
that the public side of these issues is
fully presented to tho commission. If
the carriers are entitled to an increase
we hope the commission will grant it; if
not, we trust and believe that the com
mission will deny the petition of the
carriers. We favor advances on such
materials as do not yield adequate com
pensation today; likewise we favor re
ductions where conditions are the re
verse. As to interstate traffic, it Is the
function of our state commissions to
represent the shippers before this tri
bunal. Tills is established and required
by statute. [
"There is not the slightest spirit of
hostility in our attitude toward the
railroads. We fully appreciate their
vast importance in the commercial life
of the nation. So is the prosperity of
the farmer basic and fundamental to i
the welfare of the nation. Likewise
the welfare of the laboring man is of
tremendous importance to the prosper
ity of the country. A general advance
of 10 per cent in wages during this
period of depression, according to the
pleasing logic we have been listening to
during the last few days, would put
that much more money into circulation.
No man spends his money more freely
than does the laboring man.
“Those whom lam authorized to rep
resent placed no restrictions whatever
on what I shall say or do. However, I
desire at this time to relieve them en
tirely from such responsibility. Their
object has simply been a pecuniary step
to help see that both sides may be fully
developed. I assume personal respon
sibility for my statements.
All Business Suffers.
“This is the third time American rail
ways have sought to force a general
advance in freight rates. In 1910 they
claimed a crisis existed. Instead of a
crisis tho commission found that to bo
the most prosperous year in the whole
history of American railways. In the
original 5 per cent easo in the year 1913
the claim of a crisis was again made;
and concluded 'that there is no crisis in
the condition of tho railroads in offi
cial classification territory, taken as j
a whole.’ Now, for the third time, tho !
railroads claim there is a crisis. Toduy !
they have some foundation for their ;
claim. But this emergency upon which
the carriers are relying today affects
-practically all of us in the same man
ner. It is following a period of marked
depression in business for about a year,
subsequent to tho Balkan wars, dis
turbances in Hurope and the short
crops of last year.
“it is just as hard for the manufac
turer, the farmer, the laborer, the tele
phone or the beef trust to borrow
money as it is for the railroads to do so.
"The railroads are asking for a sort
of war tax; they are asking the gov
ernment to lift the burden off part of
tho community and shift it over to the I
shoulders of the others. They asked
the wage earner, who has lost his job, !
or has wages reduced; the cotton plant- i
er who cannot sell his cotton, and the
manufacturer, who has been compelled
to close his shop or reduce his force; i
they ask these men to carry the bur- I
den of the railroad in addition to their !
own.
“If it is right for the government to
shield tho railroads from the effects of
the war; if it is right for the govern
ment to make good the losses of people
in different industries, I am going to
propose a measure that will require ev- {
cry hen in Iowa to lay an egg every
day. and when she fails to do so the
government will make up to the owner
the valuo of the egg she did not lay. j
This will enable the farmers to have
more money with vvhicli to buy ma
chinery. This In turn will make tho
factories keep busier; it will keep
money in circulation and make the
crops bigger and better. And why not
tax everybody for the benefit of every
body else and then by make everybody
rich? How perfectly splendid!
“Freight rates are not the cause of
the present trouble. The railroads
have 'advanced freight rates’ on the
brain. Whatever ails them, financial
difficulties, overoapitalization. general
depression In business, over-supply of
gold, whatever the cause, thivy have
just one remedy—advance freight rates
a sort of cure-ali or panacui.
CLOSES ITS CASE
Woman Accused of Crime Con*
fident That She Will Be Ac
quitted—Attorneys Be
gin Arguments.
Mlrieola, N. Y., Oct. 26.—The defense
of Mrs. Florence Conklin Carman, on
trial for tho murder of Mrs. Louise
Bailey, rested shortly before noon to,
day. Counsel prepared to sum up, and
Indications were that the case would
reach the Jury late this afternoon.
After testifying on cross examina
tion and after listening to the testi
mony of her little daughter Elizabeth;
her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Conklin;
her sister. Mrs. Ida Powell; her niece,
Mrs. Helen Powell Corby, and her hus
band, Dr. Edwin Carman, the accused
woman returned to her cell last nighl
predicting that the Jury would return
a verdict of acquittal.
Mrs. Carman’s face was wreathed In
Emiles when she entered the courtroom.
She bowed to several friends, kissed
her daughter Elizabeth, greeted het
husband with a nod and smile and
chatted with him and her lawyers un
til the proceedings began.
Rudolph Loewe, the first witness,
testified lie was on his way to Dr,
Carman’s office and within 16 feet oi
the window, when the shot which killed
Mrs. Bailey was fired. Loewe heard
the shot, looked up and saw a man rut)
across the lawn and leap over the
fence.
Although very deaf, Loewe was posi
tive ho heard the shot. The witness
Bald that after hearing the shot he
looked Into Dr. Carman’s office and
taw the doctor with a woman in his
arms.
Loewe said he looked Into the doc
tor’s office for about 30 seconds, and
that before he left the scone he saw a
door open and a woman In white entei
the office. By that time, he said, the
woman who had been shot was lying
on the'floor.
There wore two women In front ot
the house, the witness added. He said
he also saw a man he did not know
standing in the vestibule to the doc
tors office.
John J. Dunbar, a Freeport police
man testified that after the murder hu
brought bloodhounds to the Carman
house. He said he saw the broken
picket in tho fence mentioned in tha
testimony yesterday. The picket was
opposite the broken window, he said,
On the premises next door he found
near the fence a place where ti man's
feet had been; apparently the man had
boon standing there for some time.
After bringing the bloodhounds tfl
the house, Dunbar said he took them
to the trampled ground and they went
from there to the broken picket. Then
the dogs wore allowed to smell the
window sill. They growled, ran all the
way around the house, came up to the
place where the picket was broken,
left tho premises and went west as
far ns Lynnbrook, three miles away,
where they stopped, having lost the
trail.
On cross examination Dunbar saifl
he had taken tho screen off the window
the night of the murder, propping il
up with a piece of new shingle which
he found near a small outhouse being
built in the rear of the Carman resi
dence. The dogs, after smelling the
window sill, went to this house, li<
said. The district attorney sought te
show that the animals followed Dun
bar’s back trail.
3,000,000 BUSHELS OF
WHEAT START ABROAD
One Day Record Broken oj
Chicago Exchange—All
Prices Up.
Chicago, Oct. 24.—All 24-hour ree
ords for export business in wheat sine*
European hostilities began were sur
passed by the totals reached today, 3,
000,000 bushels. The broadening out
of trado was accompanied by rumori
that agents of the German and ling,
lish governments had been in active
competition.
One result of tlio huge trans-AtlantU
sales of wheat was to stimulate trans
actions in other staples, notably eori;
and provisions, so that the interest
shown in the speculative pits, as well
as at the sample tables was the great
est displayed for a long time.
The excitement, however, such as
characterized the early days of tho war
did not develop and the widest varia
tion In price was a rise of 2%c in De
cember wheat, a gain that was nar
rowed to l%e at ihe close. Latest
sales of the December option were at
$1.17%, as compared with $1.15% last
night.
Italy was credited with paying today
the top figures so far reached this sea.
son for cash wheat in the United
States. The reason appeared to bo the
necessity of supplying Switzerland,
which now has been cut off completely
from grain shipments except through
the one neighboring country to the
south.
General need of wheat from Uncle
Sam was specially emphasized today
by advices that, despite recent rain,
there was no likelihood of any export
able surplus In Australia and by re
ports that the yields In Canada were
worse than had heretofore been made
known. To a slight extent, other cer
eals as w'ell were bulllshly affected by
the Germans' wholesale destruction of
steamships that trade with Argentina.
SALVATION ARMY AIDS
BRITISH TOMMY ATKINS
London, Oct. 24. (by mall).—The Sal
vation Army has made a hit with Tom
my Atkins. Throe thousand of him
may be seen any day at the recreation
tont which the Salvation Army main
tains ut Colchester, devouring some 25
dozen pork plea, having a look at mag
azines and newspapers, writing letters
home, and occasionally participating in
some religious service. But the de
mands for food have been so great that
the army has, as yet. had little time
for song and prayer.
GETS LIFE SENTENCE.
Council Bluffs. Ia„ Oct. 24.—William
Sayles, convicted a week ago of mur
der In the second degree, was sentenced
to life Imprisonment by Judge Wood
ruff today, after a motion for a new
trial laid boen overruled. He killed En
gineer John Runyon, of the Milwaukee
railroad Inst may by striking him on the
neck with his list
RUSSIANS REPORT
KAISER NARROWLY
ESCAPEDCAPTURE
Central News Correspondent
Says German Emperor Had
Narrow Escape In Vicin
ity of Warsaw.
SAY GERMANS ARE FLEEING
Retirement From Vistula Con
tinues—-Austrian Resistance
Stubborn — Muscovite
Army Pounding Hard.
London, Oct. 2d.—The Petrograd cor
respondent of the Central News, sends
the following:
"Soldiers from the Warsaw front say
that Emperor William was personally
on the field of battle. He was almost
taken a captive, barely escaping by
automobile.
That tho Russians, generally speak
ing, continue to hold the upper hand
In tho custom arena of war. Is the gist
of most of the dispatches reaching
London and accepting this as true,
England thinks thut the putting of
Germany on the defensive In this ter
ritory will prevent her from transfer
ring any forces to the western arena.
The French official statement today
says of the eastern situation:
"The Germans are retreating to tho
south of Warsaw as well as to the
west of Ivangorod and Nova Alexandria.
Desperate fighting continues in Galicia
on the Fandomir front. -At Przemysl
the Russians have taken 2,000 Austrians
prisoners.
Petrograd reports a continuation of
the pursuit of the Germans retreating
from Warsaw and admits nn unexpect
edly stubborn resistance to tho Rus
sian offensive from the Austrians on
the San, while the official Vienna re
port after detailing success before
Przemysl and cashing movement to
wards the Vistula, admits that the Rus
sians were permitted to cross the San
in several places.
Petrograd describes the situation as
follows:
"The energetic offensive of our arm
ies, which have crossed the Vistula on
a large front, encountered no resistance
on the part of the Germans, who con
tinue to retreat," the official commun
ication Issued by the Russian general
otaff tonight says.
“In the trenches below Ivangorod we
took large quantities of war stores and
ammunition abandoned by the reserve
corps of the Prussian guard In its hasty
retreat.
"The Austrian armies continue to
fight with Btubborness on tho Vistula,
on the Fan. and particularly to the
south of Przemysl.
"In East Prussia there is no ehango
In the situation.” ^
GERMANS LEFT SUPPLIES
AT WARSAW, LONDON HEARS
London, Oct. 24.—In u dispatch from
Warsaw, the correspondent of Reuter's
Telegram company says the German
retreat from Warsaw was so precipi
tate that the soldiers had to abandon
their food supplies. Many prisoners
taken were exhausted from hunger.
One complete unit of 800 men has been
captured by the Russians.
British Admiralty Abandons All
Hope For Safety of Craft
Reported As Lost In
North Sea.
London, Oct. 24.—The admiralty
through the press bureau Issued today
a list of officers and men of the British
submarine, E-3, with the statement
that it is feared the hopes for the
safety of the submarine can not be en
tertained.
Berlin official advices under date of
October 20. stated that the British sub
marine E-3 was sunk on Sunday, Oc
tober 18, by German warships in the
North sen.
The destruction of the E-3 Is the first
loss suffered by the British submarine
service in the war. The boat was com
paratively new, having been completed
ill 1913. She carried 16 men.
—
JAP CRUISER WAS SUNK
BY SUBMARINE TORPEDO
Toklo, Oct. 24.—It is officially an
nounced that the navy department now
believes that the Japanese cruiser, Ta
kachiho, which was sunk in Kiao-Chow
harbor on October 17, was torpedoed by
tho German torpedo boat destroyer,
S-90. Previous official announcements
had it that the cruiser had been sunk
by a mine, but German and Chinese
reports credited the S-90 witti the feat.
Unofficial accounts say that the S-90,
masked by heavy seas, dashed out of
the bay and launched her deadly tor
pedo. She thin ran the blockade and
%vas pursued by the enemy’s destroyers.
Foreseeing her fate, her commander
drove her on the shore and fired tlie
magazines. The captain and the crew
of 60 escaped to shore and wero in
terned by Chinese soldiers.
Vico Admiral Sadakichi Kato, com
mander of the second Japanese squad
ron before Tsing-Tau, reports that tlie
condition of the wreckage of the Taka
i chihu, tlie fact that tlie tremendous ex
plosion was visible for 20 miles, and
tlie stories of the survivors, convince
him that tlie Japanese cruiser was tor
pedoed. Immediately after the attack
the magazines of the Takachlho blew
up.
According to survivors, many Japa
nese sailors were blown overboard.
These men united in singing the chorus
of the national Japanese anthem and
thus perished.
"This is evidence of hmv bravely
these men died and how they voiced
their love of country in the supreme
moment," Vice Admiral Kato reports.
"The commander of the Takachlhu
died at his post ou the bridge."
IIIISS1S REPORT
KAISER NARROWLY
ESCAPEDCAPTOOE
Central News Correspondent
Says German Emperor Had
Narrow Escape In Vicin
ity of Warsaw. I
SAY GERMANS ARE FLEEING J
Retirement From Vistula Con- f
tinues—Austrian Resistance
Stubborn — Muscovite
Army Pounding Hard. \
London, Oct. 26.—The Petrograd cor
respondent of the Central News, sends
the following:
"Suldlus from the Warsaw front say
that Emperor William was personally j
on the field of battle. He was almost
taken a captive, barely escaping by
automobile.
That tho Russians, generally speak
ing, continue to hold the upper hand
In the eastern arena of war, is the gist
of most of the, dispatches reaching
London and accepting this as true, '
England thinks that the putting of
Germany on the defensive In this ter- i
rltory will prevent her from transfer
ring any forces to the western arena.
The French official statement today
says of the eustern situation:
"The Germans are retreating to the
south of Warsaw as well as to the S
west of Ivangorod and Nova Alexandria.
Desperate fighting continues in Galicia
on tho Sandomlr front. At I*rzemysl
the Russians have taken 2,000 Austrians
prisoners.
Petrograd reports a continuation of j
the pursuit of the Germans letreating
from Warsaw and admits an unexpect
edly stubborn rerlstance to tho Rus- |
plan offensive from the Austrians on !
tho San. while the official Vienna re
port after detailing success before
Przemysl and dashing movement to
1 wards the Vistula, admits that the Rus
sians were permitted to cross the San
In several places.
Petrograd describes the situation as
follows:
“The energetic offensive of our arm
ies, which have crossed the Vistula on
a large front, encountered no resistance
on the part of the Germans, who con
* tinue to retreat," the official commun
ication Issued by the Russian general
otaff tonight says.
"In the trenches below Ivangorod we
took large quantities of war stores and
ammunition abandoned by the reserve
corps of the Prussian guard In Its hasty
retreat.
“The Austrian armies continue to
fight with stubborness on the Vistula,
on the Ran and particularly to the
south of Przemysl.
GERMANS LEFT SUPPLIES
AT WARSAW, LONDON HEARS
London, Oct. 26.—In a dispatch from
Warsaw, the correspondent of Reuter's
Telegram company says the German
retreat from Warsaw was so preclpi
j tate that the soldiers had to abandon
their food supplies. Many prisoners
taken were exhausted from hunger
One complete unit of 800 men has beep
captured by the Russians.
HEBE IS BATGH OF
NEWS FROM GERMANY
I _. V
i * ;
Officials Issue Information Con
cerning Alleged Condition
of Allies. '
r '
Berlin, (by wireless). Oct. 20.—Infor
mation was given out from official
quarters in Berlin today as follows.
"Tlie entire socialist party of Italy
again has decided to support a policy
of the striotest neutrality.
“The Manchester (England* Guard
ian says it has received hundreds ot
letters from British women who have
returned to England from Germany,
and declare that they were well treated
while in this country.
"Prisoners of war also arc well
treated. In view of those facts the
destruction and looting of German
shops in file Borough of Dempford.
London, was a fit of hysteria.
"The chief of the Russian socialist
party has pointed out officially to
Emile Vandorvelde, the Belgian social
ist leader, that a victory of the Rus
sian government would mean the
strengthening of the anti-democratic
policy in Russia and abroad. The Rus
sian government would then become
the center of the reactionary world.
The policy, therefore, of the Russian
proletariat would under no circum
stances be to help the Russian govern
ment.
•"The London Economist declares
that 500,000 British workmen are out
of employment in the British cotton
Industry
"In the newspaper Popaln Romano,
the Italian general, Bompianl. esti
mates the strength of tile German
army at 5,000,000 thoroughly instructed
soldiers and 4,000,000 recruits.
"The Montenegrins are much de
pressed over the Inefficiency of the
French blockade of the Dalmatian
coast.” _ _
HOSPITAL SHIP, ASHORE,
SENDS S. 0. S. SIGNALS
London. Oct. The French ship
Marie llenriotte, with wounded soldiers
on board, is ashore ti(«u Cape Bar
fleur. 16 miles east of Cherbourg, ac
cording to a telegram received here
from Lloyds’ signal station at Cowes.
Isle of Wight. S. O. 6. signals from
her have been received at Niton, Isle
of Wight. A Fraaoh ship is stand
ing by. _ _
FRENCH ACADEMY TO
HONOR MAETERLINCK
Paris, Oct. »4.—There is a possibility
that Maurice Maeterlinck, the Belgian
author, may be oleotwi te the French
academy by acclamation te All the seat
of the late Jules Claretio. Thu members
of the academy are ces.'ekoring such
action as reoos»ltie« of the close rela
tions at the pros ant time between
France and Belgium. If Maeterlinck is
elected it will Ik? the hrst time a fore
igner tuts become a member of th*
French academy.
