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SINK THREE SHIPS SUBMARINES SUCCESSFULLY AT TACKS BRITISH FLEET. SIO13- ENGiLIS NATION Five German Vessels. Sneak tpon English Cruisers and Successfully Atack Three of Enemy-Two Sub maMnes Reported to Have Gone Under Ships of.Older Type. A daring raid of German subma rines across the North Sea, which resulted Tuesday in the sinking of the British cruisers Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy, has diverted attention momentarily from the battlefields of the continent. The -crews of all three of the sunken warships were composed largely of naval reservists. The .4-Abouklr was the first ship struck. About 6 o'clock in the morning she received three torpedoes and the ex plosion blew out a large -section of the bottom at the bow, capsizing the ship. Ube crew had no time 'to launch lifeboats and tried to save themselves by jumping. The boat 'as out of sight beneath the waves three or four minutes after explosion. The Hogue, which iras nearby, beard the explosion and immediately launched lifeboats to save the swim ming survivors but while this was going on the Hogue herself was tor pedoed, apparently in the same man ner as the Aboukir, three shots reahting her hull, according to sur vliarm The Hogue sunk in a few minutes but the greater part of her rew were saved in their own boats. The Cressy at this point discover ed the presence of two German sub mariues on the way to attack her and began shelling them with heavy )rejectles. The Cressy's marksman ship was excellent and both subma rines were demolished. Meanwhile, fEOm the other sidi,. the Cressy her Aelf was torpedoed In two -places and ank immediately. When the attack occurred the cruisers were steaming In a line ahead three miles apart The sailors, far from being dis ouraged at the mishap, expzess the Gconviction that Admiral Jelicoe-now il teach the Germans a lesson and datlthe ships of the line when they -come Into'action will amply avenge the destruction of the cruisers. Special prasd is given Captain 'Voorharn of the PF6ra by survivors. With only 13 men in his crew he ncariedt out the -work of -rescue with the greatest skilL Owing to the rohnes of the sea the task of tak aing o board men stiff with cold was extremely-diilt and many of them ad to -he handed .up by means of ropes. This was one of the things the Snavy had been led to expect, for the Germans trankly' had avowed that their plan was to reduce British naval superioritw -by- submarine raids *ande the' sowing of mines, and they hare -beendtraining their young off cers for sallies of this kind. Nevertheless, it came as a shock, to -nr hmn that big-sips such as those sunk could so easily be attack ed and idestroyed while the German - feet has remained in safety in its mine and fortress zarotected harbors. -The British fleet must keep the seas .to insure.Great-Britain's food supply ad In dloing so must ruin great risk. The Gressy, Capt.. Robert W. John son; the Aboukir, Capt. John E. -- Drammond, and the Rogue, Capt. Wilmot S. Nlchson, were sister ships. They were armored cruisers of a comparatively obsolete type. and were built 14 years ago. The Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy each had a displacement of 12,000 tons. Each was 440 feet long and 69.5 feet wide, drew 26 feet of water -and had a complement -of 755 men, including offiers. The armaments, consisted of two 9.2-Inch guns, 12 6-inch guns, 12 12 poundeds and five 3-pounders each. The Aboukir and the Cressy were *built at Govan and the Hogue at Bar row. The lists of the casualties among *the crews will be published as soon as they are known. The loss of -life -. probably will be heavy. - .Neither the time nor the scene of the djsaster is given In the official report. The announcement says a consid erable number of the crews of the vessels were saved by H. M. S.- Lowe-] stoft and by a division of torpedo boat destroyers. Trawlers and their boats also aided~ in the .work of res A dispatch received from the Hook of Holland says the Dutch steamer Titan has arrived there bringing 20 British wounded and some dead, picked up in the North Sea after the sinking of the British cruiser Abou kir, Hogue and Cressy.. The Titan reported that the dis aster occurred at 7:30 o'clock Tues day morning. The Titan picked up 144 survivors, most of whom were transferred to British torpedo boats. A dispatch from Ymuiden, Hol land, says that according to survivors from the cruisers who arrived there Tuesday night two of the five Ger man submarine boats which attacked and sank the British cruisers Abou kir, Cressy and Hogue were sent to the bottom by the British ships. AIDMORED DIRRIGIBLES. Germans Covering Airshsips With Roofs of Aluminum. From different sources the news Is confirmed that the Germans are constructing several Zeppelins with aluminum roofs which are destined to operate in conjunction with the fleet. They are equipped with an armor ed apparatus, which is suspended under the car from which bombs or torpedoes can be discharged or tele phone communication held. Gun Cotton Explosion. An explosion of gun cotton at Eliz abeth. N. J., caused the death of sev eral workmen and the collapse of five buildings. Virginia Goes Dry. -According to the expression of the voters Tuesday Virginia has gone dry by 20,000 votes. IS A WAR OF MACHINES MEN TURN HANDLES WHICH SEND f')RTH DEATH. Many Soldiers Are Found Dead With No Wounds, Having Been Suffo cated by Milnite Fumes. In an interview at Paris Monday a wounded officer said to a war corre spondent: "This is not a war of men; it is a war of machines. There is an ap palling soullessness about it that is savagely inhuman. Men turn handles and death flies out in large bundles. That is what this battle has been. It is all really .one battle on the Marne and the Aisne. "No one can even conceive what the battle has been who has not seen the battlefield. Men could never kill one another by heaps and hecatombs. They would sicken at such wholesale slaughter. They would cry: 'We are soldiers, not butciers. A battle field would not be an abattoir. Only machines ingeniously constructed to destroy men as locusts have to be de stroyed when they sweep over fertile land, only automatic death dealers without heart, pity or remorse could carpet the earth with the dead in this frightful way.'" Another witness to the terrific slaughter which is not yet generally realized told me that the French shells burst with terrific effect and tear legs and arms to pieces. If the wound is in the head or stomach it is all over. This soldier added: "It is quite true, too. that many men have been found dead without any wound. We find them as we go over the fields of battle kneeling _or sitting in the trenches in a natural attitude just as if they were still alive, just as they knelt or sat when a shell burst and in, an instant suffo cated them with the melinite fumes." A Red Cross nurse, a clever, busi ness-like French woman, who had ex perience in tue Balkan war, said: "Germany must be one vast hospital and France is beginning to be the same. I have' just travelled from the Atlantic coast right through the cen ter of France. and saw wounded everywhere. "Already' beds are becoming scarce, though fortunately there, are so many slightly wounded, .that is, cleanly injured, that they recover quickly and make room for new comers. But it brings home the im mensity of the struggle to see every available school, institution and pub lie hall turned into a hospital, as well as every big railway station and num berless private houses." WAR REVENLE. Bill to go Through House With Eight Hours Debate. Early disposition in the House of the war revenue bill to raise approx imately $105,C00,000 was indicated~ Tuesday, when Majority Leader Underwood announced that it would be brought up Thursday under a rule limiting debate to four ho- 3. Republican members will attack the measure along lines suggested in a minority report filed by Represent ative Payne of New York, protest ing that there was "no occasion for panic, hasty or headlong action t'o heap heavier burdens upon the peo ple." The Democrats were charged with extravagance. Failure or the new tariff to meet expectations of its framers, als owas claimed. The majority report of the ways and means committee, filed with the bill, de~cla~red that the new tariff laws and other sources of revenue would have yielded sufficient gov ernment funds had it not been for the European war and consequent de crease in customs receipts. CHURCHILL CONFIDENT. Lord of the Admiralty Expects Much of British Fleer. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the British Admiralty, addressed a crowd of 12.000 to 14,000 men Mon day night at a recruiting meeting in Liverpool. He reiterated his appeal for a million men, and said: "I haye no anxiety over the result of the war. God has blessed our arms. We have had unexpected good fortune. I could not have hoped that circumstances at this stage of the war would have been so favor able for the Allies. "As far as the navy is concerned It can not fight while the enemy re mains in port. We hope that the navy will have the chance of settling the question with the German fleet yet. If they do not come out and fight In time of war they will be dug out like rats out of a hole." SUFFOCATE IN TUNNEL. Engineer and Conductor Overcome by Accumulated Gas and Smoke. The engineer and conductor of a Philadelphia and Reading Railway train, were suffocated and seven pas sengers were overcome whe~n the train was halted in the middle of a tunnel near Phoenixville, 'Pa., after running down and killing a woman at the tunnel entrance late Monday afternoon. The sudden application of the emergency brakes brought the trian to a stop well inside the tunnel, throwing many passengers from their seats. The train crew and several of: the men passengers ran forward, but: they were met by a wave of gas and smoke, which had accumulated In the tunnel. Three of the men dropped alongside the track and the others returned for help. TO PROTECT ART. German Governor of Velgium Plans to Protect Treasures. The German governor of Belgium, Gen. Von Der Goltz, has appointed Privy Councillor Dr. Von Falcke, to decide upon ways and means to ef fet protection of Belgian treasures of art against burglary and pillage. Dr. Von Falcke is now making a tour of Louvain, Namur. Huy, Niv elles and Liege, accompanied by a Belgian art expert and will take whatever steps to this end that may NEW FRANCE BORN a M NATION ELECTRIFIED BY DE- C( FEAT OF GERMANS. ii IV, CONFIDENT OF SUILES C b France no Longer Cowed by the Prus- t p sian Army-It Can be Beaten- u fi How the Army of Paris Sallied Out t] Catching von Kluck's Corps in 0 C Deadly Position. t] A new France has been born. The e shame of Sedan and the bitter humil iations of 1870 have been blotted out, utterly obliterated by the battle of the Marne. There is not a Frenchman from Poincare to peasant whose spirit droops before Prussian menace. However long the complete triumph of the allies may be delayed e (and no intelligent Frenchman un derestimates the resources of German e courage) the armies of the republic will fight with the confidence of the soldiers of the, Napoleon of Auster litz and Jena, the irresistible confi dence of the years when Frehch armies were unconquerable and when the roads to Paris were choked with the prisoners and trophies of 100 battles. t This great thing has been accom plished by the gigantic struggle which extended from Paris to Vitry le-Francois from September 1 to Sep tember 12, and which was composed of a series of tremendous battles along a fighting front of 127 miles. 9 In these battles much more than -Paris was saved, much more than materiag triumphs gained. The self respect of the nation was the real t trophy of the.victory. France stands e rehabilitated, no longer cowed by s forty years of "Prussian swagger- - ing." Von Moltke was an accident. I The Prussians can be beaten. . Victory Has Made a New France. t It is necessary to write of this up- t lift of French spirit, of the new in- c spiration which has sent the confi dence of France swinging in a wide 1 are because, it explains and illumi nates the material and physical ad vantages of the great battles in which the German armies were first check ed, then attacked, then hurled back c over the roads they had travelled so triumphantly. It is essential that this spirit be understood because of the effect it f can not help but have in later phases 9 of the war in the west. France is no longer uncertain. She is calmly con- 1 fident. She is no longer feinting on the defensive; she is striking boldly t on the attack. It is now possible to describe gen- f erally, comprehensively, the vast op- t eratons of September 1 to Septem- i ber 12 which have already beenc grouped In the sweeping title of the t battle of the Marne. The details of I these- operations will have to be left to the coming of peace, and history t will have no small problem in an alyz-1 ing the movements of troops whose I numbers stagger the Imagination. The people, depressed for moret than three weeks over the constant3 withdrawal of the allies, hearing of I nothing but a succession of reverses, I were hardly prepared for such full-C ness of victory. By degrees the full meaning of the long retreat from the frontier has become understood and t there Is the most enthusiastic praises for Gen. Joffre, who is being acclaim ed as another Napoleon..r From reports to the government it is clear that upward of 2,500,000 men on both sides swayed backward and forward In the Marne country before the certainty of utter ruin compelled the Germans to flee north ward. Eliminating troops that guard-t ed communications or were left tot garrison important towns, the Ger mans were able to drive 900,000 men ' against the allies in the final, desper- e ate endeavor to smash the French l center. Including the Paris army of de- r fence, whose brilliant sally on Sep tember 7 made the plans of the Ger- t man General Staff so much waste paper, the Allies in the battle of the Mane numbered 1,600.000. With- C out the Paris 500,000 nearly 1,100,- I 000 of French and English troops I hammered back the German attack. o Of the number of British troops that 3 took part in the six days fighting it ' is impossible to speak accurately. It f is estimated here that Gen. French h commanded about 250,000. Casualties Unequalled. Modern accuracy of rifle and artil ery fire, the persistency of the Ger- ~ mans. in adhering to close formation and the character of their withdrawal through unfavorable country made he casualties of the Marne unequal- s led probably in the history of the d world. The most conservative is that g from 20 to 25 per cent. of the armies n engaged were killed or wounded. It ti is therefore believed that nearly 500. 000 men were eliminated in the con stant struggle. ~i The situation attained by three ti weeks of constant retreats by the ci French and British had been produc- c: ed. The German drive southward tl had failed to destroy or envelop a t< single army of the Alfies. Since the f< first days of September it had be come evident that the great turning d movement by Gen. von Kluck was a a: failure. Slowly, stubbornly, always si inflicting great losses upon the ('er- is mans, the lines of the Allies had fall- ci en back until the Anglo-French left t: had its back to Paris, while the line ir of the Allies reached eastward south ir of the Marne. d: Until that time the German ad ance had been automatic, apparent ly irresistible. The great horde In gray had moved southward like a ti vast eloud of locusts. Always before tl their advance were aeroplanes to lo- yv cate the position of the withdrawing fg Allies. Then along the splendid French roads rolled countless auto mobiles carrying advance detach ments of infantry, squadrons of Uh Ins and light cavalry, and finally, column on column. the close pressed v masses of infantry.b Their artillery and supply trains|~ stretched for many miles. for no army that ever took the field was more perfectly and completely equipped. uns, ammunition, maxims, field ti kitchens, food supplies were trans-|h: ported rapidly by motor car. and lc otor. To the French peasants the Ivance had been terrifying. Their inds were awed by the never ending asses. B~y September 7, Gen. von Kuck, )mprehending the impossibility of tvesting Paris, undertook to sweep ast the British lines in an attempt > strike the French army of Gen. on Buelow. Until that time the aracter of the German advance had een as follows: Gen. von Kluck, on the right of 2e German advance, had swerved st Paris and had advanced to Mont- c irail. He had traveled further and t ister than the German artillery to I ie east, as the Anglo-French forces a n the left of the Allies had been ' ompelled to withdraw more rapidly e han the armies of the Allies to the i ast. Gen. von Buelow, having occu ied Rheims, had proceeded in a lightly southeasterly direction and ad reached Sezanne. Still further astward the third German army, 1 ommanded by Gen. von Hausen, con tituting the German left, where the iand Duke Albrecht was present rith a fourth German army, had pen trated to Vitry-le-Francois. East of he Ardennes the crown prince was ssaying the capture of Verdun, and till further removed from the Marne eld was Gen. von Heeringen in the icinity of Nancy. The Beginning of the Battle. --On the night of Sunday, Septem er 6, there had been furious fight ag pretty much along the whole ine, notably at Coulommiers, where he Fifth French army captured sev ral villages at the point of the bayo et. On the morning of Monday, eitember 7, Gen. von Kluck, having, s he no doubt assumed, passed the Lnglo-French line at the extreme left f the Allied line, attempted his yeat stroke of combining with von luelow for a terrific attack upon the rench center. Having had to remodel their plans he German general staff had staked iverything upon this essay, hoping to plit the Allied line and drive part restward upon the fortifications of laris and catch part between von luck's and von Buelow's forces on he one hand and von Hausen's and he Grank Duke Albrecht's on the ther. The commencement of the six days attle was the general advance of the Llies, foreshadowed by Gen. Joffre's rder of the' 6th, and shrewdly de igned to wreck the German plans. 7nquestionably the -declining factor f the whole series of battles was the ,rand sortie by the Paris army of efence. The 500,000 men of that army, resh vigorous and moved by fighting pirit, had been held ready for just uch an opportunity. The moment it ecame. certain that von-' Kluck's rmy had swept southwestward past he Anglo-French forces the Paris rmy of 500,000 sprang from the ortifications, interposed itself be ween von Kuck and von Buelow 'who was hammering at the French enter) caught von Kluck in one of he most cunningly baited military raps of the centuries. - The German commander was be ween two millstones. On his right rete the Anglo-French forces..On his eft were the Parisians. The mill tones were closing upon him. For wo days he fought terrifically and ist managed to. squeeze out of the rap, although suffered immense osses in killed, wounded and pris ners. Almost simultaneously with his sovement Gen. Pau, with a compara vely small force of cavalry made a uccessful raid upon the German line f communications at their right, a aid which had far reaching conse ence. Gen. Pau seized a long wagon rain of supplies that the German roops desperately needed, ammuni ion and food. .Von Kluck Barely Escaped Von -Kluck, barely escaping from he French trap, was compelled to urn his face to the north and move I rith all speed to extricate himself. his was retreat. There was no hoice left him. It was retreat or be urled back to the west between aris and the sea, there to be sur- 1 ounded and captured. His defeat ras a great triuinph for the plans of I he French General staff and for 'rench organization. Aviators who observed the retreat I f the Germans have reported that< ere could have been nothing more upressive in all history. Hundreds f thousands of gray uniformed men rere rolling back northward, not erely over the roads but through elds and forests, all in a desperate urry. DANIELS IS FIRMI. [arconi Wireless Station Must Obey Neutrality Proclamation. t Secretary of the Navy Daniels ade it clear Tuesday night that he oes not propose to allow court liti ation to interfere with the enforce ent of neutrality at all wireless sta ons. Mr. Daniels had before him a tele ram from the Marconi company ask- s ug that action on the alleged viola- I. on by the Siasconsett station, In re- r iving a message from the British a 'uiser Suffolk, be postponed ut '1t te government's right could be c - armined in a suit being prepared >r the federal courts. Administration officials are confi ent of their rights in the matter,. ad will forcibly close the Siascon att station if its continued operation considered a menace to the Ameri An government's position of neu- b ality. Secretary Daniels is unwill- j g to let the matter be threshed out I: the courts because of its imme- e late importance. il lilled by 14-Foot Fall. h Falling out of a coal car on a I estle, which he was unloading. Ar iur Greer, 43 years old, of Green- b Elle, was killed by a fourteen foot t~ Kansas Bank Robbed. g Three mounted men, after driving i cashier and two clerks into the ult of the Baxter Springs National unk Tuesday leisurely proceeded to y >b the bank of $8,000. b I I n Praise Their Captors. s The crews of the six vessels cap ted by the German cruiser Emden uve landed at Calcutta. They are ud in their praise of the treatment ti DESCRIBES WAR SCENE OADS STREWN WITH DEAD AF TER GERMANS PASSED. esolaion of Country Beyond River Marne is Revealed by Correspond ent Who Followed Armies. The country beyond the Marne ver which the German host rushed Dwards Paris, and over which the itter hastened in retreat, is worth a isit, if only to show what war is. 'he farm houses are blackened by hells, the haystacks masses of smok ag carbon; the roads are zigzagged rith trenches and broken by the reat wheels that has passed, and heir hollows are filled with rain. Shell fire has smashed trees and lown deep holes in the fields. A and as wide as England looks as hough a great hurricane full of ightning which had missed nothing Lad passed over it. Long processions of motor cars Lnd wagons, anything on wheels, ass continually south, bringing oads of shattered men. Nearer the iring line one comes upon villages there the walls of the houses have :ollapsed into the streets, and piles 4 wrecked furniture, agricultural mplements, and farm -carts show rhere the barricades and mitrailleu ese were. Cottages have mattresses half- fill ng the window spaces. There rifle nen made a stand. In attitudes of readful and pitiful last collapses hey lie spread-eagled on the road m their backs or sit against walls to which they had crawled in agony, ;taring with awful eyes at nothing )n.the ground. Dead horses are everywhere, and ;o are their abandoned but living ellows, standing 'motionless with hocking wounds waiting for the mnd. Everything is wet with rain, )ut the puddles are thick and dis :olored. All the towns south of the line of )attle, says an Englisr writer, have een converted into mospital Dases. At Orleans he was informed that for Ive days 7,000 wounded passed :hrouh daily. A French medical army loctor showed me a scene at night when a train arrived with its wretch ,d load. It had traveled for at least :en hours from the battle line. No British were there; the stricken were French and Germans. Rapidly :he great medical staff went over the :onsignment, rebandaging where nec .ssary and sorting out serious cases. hese were to be retained; the others were to continue their journey to an Aher base. Under an electric globe in the sta on hall was a young Prussian offi :er. A bullet had passed through his >ody. Even while he was being held ip he died, but he had given a mes sage for his wife and two young chil Iren. The French gave the wounde". ermans first and special attention. [here is no hatred of the foe shown my any of the allied forces, except .ng, it is necessary to add, by the Furcos. In the morning when the yusiness is over the station floors are leared and washed and disinfected. TRAIN WRECKED. [en Lives Lost and Many Injured In Alabama Wreck. Search was being made Friday iight for train wreckers believed to iave caused the death of ten persons Lnd the injury of thirty others, by erailing Queen and Crescent train ~o. ?, at 3 a. m. Friday at Living ;ton, Ala. Bloodhounds failed to ick up a trail. William Jones of Birmingham, en sineer of the wresked train, who lost us life, is said to have been given the 'clear" signal at the last automatic witch post before the Klondyke witch, where the wreck occurred. upporters of the "wrecker" theory hink some one tampered with the witch in the brief interval after the rain passed the block and before it truck the switch. It also is said hat the switch was thrown against he train; that the switch light was ut, and that the oil tank of the light ras empty. DENY REPORTS. ermans Minimize French and Eng lish Tales of Success. The German embassy at Washing an received the following wireless rom Berlin: "All the Frenea-English reports of ictories of battlesj France are un rue. The GermaW retreat of the restern wing was a practical man euvre not affecting the strategical osition. The French attempt to reak through the centre of the Ger ian position was victoriously repuls "There Is confirmation of German uccesses at several points of the rg extended battlefield. The Temps eports that the losses of the British rmy in the recent fighting amount 3 15,000 dead an: wounded." NINE ARE KILLED. 'rolley Car and Trailer Are Crashed Into by Memphis Train. Nine persons are known to have een killed and at least fifteen in ired early Thursday night when an inois Central freight train crash : into a street car on a grade cross ug near Binghamton, a suburb of [emphis. The car, a "trailer," was urled over an embankment and a eight car toppled over on top of it. About thirty-five persons were on aard the wrecked car, according to ie conductor. The motor car draw g the "trailer" crosed the railroad acks safely. None of the passen ers on board it was injured. Body Found in River. The body of Hershacl Beacham, a ung man of Dublin. Ga., was found adly decomposed in Iconee river, ear Dublin Saturday. Robbery is ispected. Gas Kills Two Miners. Two men were overlome by gas in te Gratz lead mine, near Gratz, Ken OFFILIAL REPORT 3RITISH CO3DIANDER TELLS OF FIGHT UP TO FRIDAY. ARTILLERY F RE HEAVY 5ir John French Leads Up to Open ing Brush at the River Aisne Over a Week Ago and Says the Battle so Far as British Troops Are Cor cerned, Is Still There. The following descriptive accourt from Field Marshal Sir John French's headquarters of the British army's operations up to September 18 was issued Tuesday night: "General Headquarters, "18 September, 1914. "At the date of the last narrative, September 14, the Germans were making a determined resistance along the river Aisne. Opposition, which at first it was thought-might possibl b3 of a rear guard nature not entail ini; material delay to our progress has developed and has proved to b more serious than was anticipated "The action now being fought b3 the Germans along. their line ma3 have been undertaken to gain tim( for some strategic operation and ma3 not be their main stand. But if thih is so, the fighting is naturally on g scale which makes it undistinguish able In its progress from what i. known as a pitched battle, thougi the enemy certainly showed signs o! considerable -disorganization during the earlier days of their retiremen1 phase. "Whether originally it was intend ed by them to defend the positiox they took up as strenuously as the have done, or whether the delay gain ed for them during the 12th and 13tl by their artillery has enabled then to develop their resistance and forc4 their line to an extent not originalli contemplated, can not yet be ascer tained. "So far as we are concerned thq action still being contested is the bat tle of Aisne. The foe we are fighting is just across that river along thi whole of our front to the east anc west. The struggle is not confined t< the valley of that river, though it wil -probably bear its name. "The progress of our operation and the French armies nearest us foi the 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th wil now be described. "On Monday, the 14th, those o our troops which on the previous da: had crossed the Aisne, after drivin in the German rear guards on tha evening, found portions of the ene my's forces in prepared defensiv positions on the right bank and coult do little more than secure a footin; north of the river. This, l4owever they maintained in spite of two coun ter-attacks, in which the fighting wa: severe.. "During'the 14th strong reinforce ments of our troops were passed t< the north bank. Close co-operatioi was maintained with the Frenci forces and the general progress was good, although the opposition wat vigorous and the state of the roads after the heavy rains, made move ments slow. "One division alone, after repuls ing repeated attacks, captured 60( prisoners and 12 guns. The cavalr: also took a number of prisoners Many Germans taken belong to thi reserve and landwehr formations which appears to indicate that thi enemy is compelled to draw on othe: classes of soldiers to fill gaps in hi: ranks. "There was a heavy rain through out the night of September 14-15 and during the 15th the situatior underwent no essential change. But it became evident that the enemy'! defensive preparations were more ex tensive than at first was apparent. "To counterbalance this we tools measures to economize our troop! and to secure protection from the hostile artillery fire, which was fierce and our men continued to improve their own entrenchments. The Ger mans bombarded our lines nearly all day, using heavy guns. "All their counterattacks, how ever, failed, although in some places they were repeated six times. One made on the Fourth Guards, was re pulsed with heavy slaughter. "An attempt by part of our line tc advance slightly was unsuccessful, but led to the withdrawal of part of the enemy's infantry and artillery. "Further counterattacks made dur ing the night were beaten off. "On Wednesday. the 1 6th, there was little change in the situation op~ posite the British. The enemy's bombardment continued throughout the morning and evening. Our artil ery fire drove the defenders off one of the salients of their position, but thy returned in the evening. Forty prisoners were taken by the Third division. "On the 17th the situation remain ed unchanged. The German heavy artillery fire was more active. The :ly infantry attacks made by tihe enemy were on our extreme right, tnd were repulsed with heavy loss, 2hiefiy by our field artillery. "To convey some idea of the na ure of the fighting it may be said hat along the greater part of our ront tihe Germans have been driven >ack from the forward slopes on the lorthI of the river. Their infantry s holding strong lines of trenches tmongst and along the edges of the iumerous woods which crown the lopes. These trenches are-elaborate y constructed and cleverly conceal d. "In many places there were wire ntanglements. Both woods and open re carefully aligned, so they can be wept by guns invisible from our side f the valley. The German line in ront of the infantry trenches, as a ule, also is under cross fire from the ield artillery. A feature of this action is thle use >y tile enemy of their numerous iavy howitzers, with which thley can lirect long range fire along the valley td right across it. "Tile bombardment by both sides las been heavy, and on Sunday, Mon Lay and Tuesday was continuous. De pite the general din caused by the mnmense number of heavy guns in .ction on Wednesday, the arrival of he French force, acting against the CAPTURE TRENCHES HOW ALLIES TAKE "MPREGNA BLE" GERMAN POSITIONS. Big Guns of Kaiser's Forces is the Chief Obstacle in the Advance of the Allies in the Aisne Struggle. Writing to the London Chronicle Philip Gibbs, an Englishman, gives the following account of the first days of the battle of the Aisne. For four days, he says, there has been an incessant artillery duel under cover of which both sides are entrenching themselves like armies of and rush ing over open ground with rifle fire and bayonet charges in order to at tain advanced positions for further entrenchments. It was in this battle of trenches that we have shown our superiority and gained good ground, though at somewhat heavy cost. With the experience of the Boer war behind them, our troops are far better than the German in taking ad vantage of every scrap of cover and fighting in open formation. As a re sult of this we have bAen able to cap ture positions which seemed secure to the German, and with dogged per sistence and fine pluck our men on several occasions during the last for ty-eight hours have taken possession of trenches which, according to all rules of war were impregnable fox an infantry assault. In this part of the fighting we have been assisted by the reckless valor -of the Zouaves. I have already de scribed in previous dispatches the gallantry of this famous regiment, but in the battle around Soissons they covered themselves with nes glory. They charged again and again under the most deadly fire and were successful repeatedly in reach ing the enemy's positions. German soldiers fired before them, but not until the trenches were filled rwith their dead, slain by the long bayonets of the -Frenc'hmen, whC tossed them out of their pits "as though; they were haymaking," a one of them said when they returned with twisted and broken weapons. Unfortunately, the German artil lery has been very effective during the present battle in the neighbor hood of Soissons. "As soon as one 61 our men puts his head above the trenches," said a soldier who had just left them for a spell, "it is blows off by shrapnel. We have to lie los and hug the earth.' "The accuracy and rapidity witi with the German gunners find thehi range-is quite remarkable, and Is due largely to the skilled work of their aviators who indicate the positions by dropping scraps of paper and bombs, which act as smoke signals. The great 11-inch guns were par ticularly distressing, owing to theii -formidable projectiles and length of range, and it was a joyful thling te the Allies' gunners when three oi them were located and put out of action by successful rushes of infan try. "The Germans had to retire froul the positions which. had been taker up by this heavy artillery, and as it was Imrpossible for them to shift the three guns imbedded in cement, they abandoned them to us. "At the time of writing the great battle is beginning to slacken down, while each side Is engaged rIs strengthening its position, but the German shrapnel is still busy, espec ially where they see the flicker of the heliograph or locate wireless sta tions, so that this work has to be done under heavy fire. NOVEL WARFARE. How. Sailors Care for Helpless Enemy~ After Fight is Over. An incident in the recent naval fight near Helgoland is described as follows: The Defender, having sunk an enemy, lowered a whaler to pick up her swimming survivors; before the whaler got back an enemy's cruiser came up and chased the De fender, and thus she abandon-ed her whaler. Imagine their feelings; alone in an open boat without food. twenty-five miles from the nearest land, and that land the enemy's for tress. with nothing but fog and foes around them. Suddenly a swirl alongside, and up, If you please, pops his Britannic majesty's submarine E-4, opens his conning-tower, takes them all on board, sGuts up again. dives and bring them home -250 miles: KILLS GERMAN. Vedrines, French Aviator, Attacks German Aeroplane. Jules, Vedrines, the noted French aviator, was credited with a courage ous fight in midair with a German aviator whom he brought to earth. The German was daringly reconnoit ering the position of the Allies when Vedrines a4scended. Moving swiftly upward until he was above the German, Vedrines gave chase and as he skimmed along fusilladed and air scout with the automatic guns. The- German ma chine was riddled and the aviator Ikilled, both falling to the ground fif teen minutes after Vedrines took the on the east of our front some miles away by the continuous roar of their quick-firing artillery. "So far as the British are concern ed, the greater part of this week has been passed In bombardment, in gain ing ground by degrees-and in beating back severe counter attacks with heavy slaughter. Our casualties have been severe, but it is probable those of the enemy are heavier. , "On our right and left the French have been fighting fiercely, and also Ihave been gaining ground. One vil lage ardyduring this battle has becatred and recaptured twice byeach side.'' Italian Shoots Two Officers. Frank Latrina. an Italian, barri c-aded himself in his house at New Orleans and seriously wounded two potrolmen who attempted to arrest him Saturday on the charge of wife eatng. RESULT UNDECIDED NEITHER SIDE CILIMS VICTORY IN BIG FIGHT. EXPERT GERIAN RETREAT A Dispatch From London Says Ger mans Are Heavily Fortifying Posi tions Around Brussels and Louvain --Allies Look for German Retirer ment in Belgium if Defeated. Neither Germany nor the *Allies yet lay claim to any decisive outcome in the battle of the Aisne, where the supreme conflict of the war, up to tlie present time, has long been raging. The engagement, taken as a whole; seems to be partaking of the nature of a siege. Both sides continue to hold a majority of their strongly en trenched positions. The German lines, for 100 miles, are described as vir tually a continuation of forts and heavy entrenchments. Artillery fire exchanges go on day and night, and under their cover are sorties of in fantry. Counter-attacks follows attack -and occasionally one' side or the other gains ground. It would appear to day that nothing but a successful Banking movement could have any serious effect on either army. But neither front has been broken and neither side has been outflanked. Rhims appears to be the center of the most persistent fighting. It Is be. tween the lines of battle and has suf -fered heavily.. The Germans are deo. scribed as -most anxious to recapture it. A dispatch from London to the New York Sun says there is a grow ing belief that the Germans are pre paring to retreat from the Aisne for a futher determined stand in Bel gium. In addition to fotifications already prepared the Germanfare establish ing a huge 'line of entrenehments which run through Mons to a point neir Valenciennes. They have eriet ed a semi-circular line of fortifica tions to the north of Brussels and Louvain. Heavy siege.guns are be ing mounted upon these fortuications and troops are arriving in large num bers from Germany every day. Such preparations. are not neces sary merely for use against the com paratively small forces of Belgian troops, because the two,' possibly three German army corps in Belgium have been adequate to keep the Bel gians in check. The new defences therefore, must be designedito pro tect a retreat. Unusually heavy rains are flooding the country and will greatly handi cap the movements of' such heavy guns as the Germans depend upon. A great part- of Belgium is a via - table swamp and general military - operations are regarded as Impos sible. On account of the strength of the - Gerinan forces and positions in occu pled territory the Belgian armies have been unable .to mintain any im portant offensive. They have been successful in preventing the Germans from sending at least two army corps to the relief of their armies in France, and ,they have kept up a - series of raids -upon German com munications. A further indication that the eyes of the world will shortly turn again to Belgium as the center of main operations lies in the attitude -of the German military governors. Fortift cations are being thrown up. to ti.e northwest of Liege and the people have been ordered to leave the city. Regulations affecting travellers- have increased In severity. Without ques tion the apprehension of the- Ger mans has increased. They have. evac-' nated Termonde and Londerzec. There is a report from Amsterdam that German troops who guarded Brussels have been withdrawn and that Austrians are now garrisoning the capital. They have seven heavy siege guns. Brussels is reported to. be quiet, but the price of food Is high. WARNS FRENCHDIEN. Population Must Not be Hostile, Ge. von Moltke Says. 'ihe~ follow-ng proclamation, print ed in French and signed by Gen. von Moltke, chief of the Imperial Ger man Staff, is said to have been post ed in all towns and cities occupied by the Germans in France: . "All the authorities and the mu nicipality are informed that every peaceful inhabitant can follow his regular occupation in full security. Private property will be absolutely respected and provisions paid for. "If the popuation dare under any form whatever to take part in hos tilities the severest punishment will be inflicted on the refractory. "The people must give up their arms. Every armed individual will be put to death. Whoever cuts tele graph wires, destroys railway bridges or roads or commits any act in de triment to the Germans will be shot. "Towns and villages whose Inhabi tants have taken part in the combat or who fire upon us from ambush will be burned down and the guilty shot at once. The civil authorities will be held respponsible. "Von Moltke." DANIELS IN COTTON SUIT. Nary Secretary Sets PatriotIc Fash ion for the Cabinet. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels has set a new fashion for cabinet officers when he appeared at his office in a suit of white cotten and announced that as long as the war lasts he would wear only cotton lothing. "The way to help cur cotton grow rs and cotton manufacturers since hey have lost our foreign markets is o make a broader American mar ket."' Mr Daniels said. "And the ay to help in this is to wear cotton lothing.'' Russians Bombard Premnysi. The Russian official statement Sun ay said that the bombardment of. Premysl had begun. The Austrian