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Save for Slight Advantage of Russians
in East Little Change is
Noted To-Day.
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GERMAN'S SI STAIN LOSSr>
HusvUns Capture Positions with ll.y
om*t*? Horn 1st rd incut of Pr/cmyaJ
llegmi.
Petrograd, I ut. 7.?Tho Russians
have captured several German po
altlona lntw?>cn Lyrk and Wirballen
by bayonet charges. The Germans
hav?? been reinforced and are lighting
stubbornly at llakulurhcw. The Kas?
sian left wing i? steadily advancing to?
ward Cracow.
The Austrian garrison attempted
another sortie at Prsemy*! and wert?
repulsed with heavy losses. Russians
are bombarding the fortress from the
south, southwest and east.
German right wIuk. which invaded
Lomsea and Suwalkl has l?oen push?
ed baek into east Prussia.
Massacre in Albania.
Athens, Oct. 7.?The Muhonune
dana are plundering and k!lm- Chris?
tiana in Albania, uccording to a dis?
patch from Janina. Many villages
about Hera have been burned; two
hundred men, women and children
massacred.
Alllea Surprised] by Germans.
a?maV Oft.. l.?,A+mmU, .million aje
engaged in a great double Hanking
movement In northeastern France
With the Germans today pressing for?
ward in a desperate effort t.? cut oft
and surround the French near Arras
and Doual. The Germans are moving
With the utmost vigor and the allies
were evidently surprised at such an
audacious attack. The new Gorman
.?rmy which has been pushed north?
ward from llclgium holds strong Po?
sition northwest of Talle. A purt of
tho advanced lines have reached Ypres
only twenty miles from the Knglish
eharnel. A new front, nearly one hun?
dred miles long, running at angles to?
ward the north from UM original line,
on the Alsne rive" has been formed.
The hardest fighting is along the wes?
tern end.
Ilhcints Homhardiiiciit Continue*.
London, Oct. 7.?A Times dispatch
from P.pcrnu> states that Rheims is
still being bomba.ib d by UM Qi?rmans.
Klght\ Chilians have been killed. The
population are in a state of panic and
are llxing in cellars.
Germans Take Two More Forts.
Herlin. Wireless to Sayville, Oct. 7.
? It Is annoimeei! this gftWlOOfl that
two jnore fort?? at Antwerp have been
taken by the Germans. The defend?
ers were unable to resist f:c destruc?
tive lue of the German sic ,'c guns.
lU rlln Olbclal statement.
Herlln. via. Amsterdam, Oct. 7.?
The olllclal statement today admits
that the French have gained :.<>mi
ground along the ri\er M.use but t%i ?
dares that tin- German right wing
nmier Gen. Von Horten ?ueeeoafull)
flunked the allies and forced them |fl
rush reinforcements to the front to
avert a retreat.
It is claimed that for strategic rea?
sons the Germans retired to points on
the Mouse and new positi ?ns wore oc
oupb d by the French but the general
altnatloii there remains v neha n :???!.
The most se\n. Hunting ts lakino.
1*1 ?- nn tie- \'.este!M end of the bat?
tle line where a strong German al?
to k is threatening to f..rce allies to
n i real. The hill of Antwerp is
||?'\id to be i.iil; 11 ma'ter of hours.
The HiMi.,ij..i, ;,i the east Ig mi
?bingtd. Tie Germans, are atandlnu
firm against the Ru a i i attacks.
The Austrk.n armv in flattrig is
drlvin-r the Uli i hh bark and in ItW
South the\ gra malting gntiw against
Ihe Servians and M? ni? n >gt |g ..
Huttle of \l no i Kliui-hed.
Paris. I ?< t I, The < n i uf ii" [rent
battle of tin- Alsne, bagUlt |?t<mber
I Jth gi IH>i ?' ? gi ban I I ?< Nplle I le
constant lighting, und Ilia ?hiltln
activities on the Germ; n right tOen.
Von Kbuk) seems gbgolutely iletei
mined to follow the iustru' I Ml Ol
the Kaiser?to win or die trying, Tin*
Germans are now projecting their eav?
nlry into thin rngigrmint for the 11 rat
111 w\
{ Turkish Ships l.euvo Marmora.
Athens, Oet 7.?Tb? Turkish squad?
ron of warships, accompanied by the
fit!man cruiser Gochen, has left the
Marmora sea. (Unofficial.) j
Torpedo I'.oat Destroyer Sunk.
London, (?et. 7. -A British subma?
rine sank a German torpedo boat de?
stroyer off the German coast last
nfejht (< uncial.)
Hat tic Continues on Left Wing.
Paris, Oct. 7.?An OfBelal statement
at J o'clock this afternoon states
! that the battle continues on the left
j wing of the allies' army with great
Violence today. The opposing fronts
have extended into the region of Lens,
i ten miles northeast of Anas. Great
cavalry forces are now in action.
Los* One and n-slxth Million.
Berlin, via. Amsterdam, < >ct. 7.?
Tin? war oiAOf today estimated the
llessssj of all the armies since the war
started at one million, one hundred
, und? >i\l*/ thonsamj killed, wounded
and missing. The Germans have loV
IWO hundred and twenty-live thous?
and, the lirilisb, French and Belgians
three hundred ami twenty-live thous?
and, and the Russia na, who have
?nfletifl heaviest, four hundred thou*
?and, Austria ti humlr -d and twenty*
live thousand, Bervla and Montenegro
?i [hty*ttve lb ?usand,
German Hunts Sunk.
Tokio, oet 7.- it is unofficially re
poried that the Germun ere.:.;, Cor
inoran and two German gunboats ha\e
beea sunk la Ktaochau bay '<y the
Japanese and British warships.
The Shantung railroad to Chlnnn
h , been setaed by the Japanese,
PEOPLE HOARD l-TXDS.
MeAdoo Points Out imbecility of
!lur> iug Money at Ttlbl lime.
I Washington, Oet, ?;.?"There is evi?
dence in some quarters that individ?
uals and corporations are hoarding
money] it is jusi as reprehensible for
them to do so as it hi for the banks,
declared Beerotary McAd.>f Ihe
treasury department, in a Statement
Issued tonight,
"There is no reason," he continued.
"why people should no! deposit money
in the banks in the usual way and
with absolute confidence and (here Is
tin reason why business should not be
Conducted in a normal way."
i The statement says the following
rates have been charged by banks
sxeept In exceptional cases, in Nov.
York, I per cent; Chicago, 7 per
cent; si. Louis, ?; and 7 per e< nl;
Boston, ti per eentj Philadelphia, 0
per eeid.
The statement announced that no
more lis.s of banks carrying exec nlve
ervei Will I??? made public for tin
present because there is evidence that
a nforc liberal disposition is being
manifested.
"1 have i long list." it goes on.
'*which nre holding excessive reserve*
; nd I shull not hesitate tu publish it.
"In a numlier of places which hav<
been brought In my notice ihe liit?*r
SSt rate lias Ik i n put Up a I'hlt I'alil)
by |he eoneerted action -.f the banks.
There is no ju >i Uleal U n for Iii Ii In
leresl rates There Is no real reason
for light money in tins country."
only MILITARI mom:.
Japan Explain* it^ bVlanre of Maud.
Washington, Oet 7. Becrcbiry
Pry an hau n assured ? hu I 1I??1 or-,
eu pal Ion by Japanese naval forces of
iii.' Herman Pacific Islands la only
b miNirui ? m.d solel) for mllllun i"'i
(Mines, That assurance came fron, iu
Jtiimnese foreign office through Am
b e: id. i 11 till . le Hllil from tee .1 l|l
tin?... euibuss) m Washington.
THE FRENCH SECRET.
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nODIKH or (iKHMAN TROOP8
Di .\u IN TRKNt iii:s W1TUOPT
WOFXIiS.
German* Reported lo fir Discouraged
by continuous Fighting Without
Food <>?? Kost?Correspondent Do?
filets Scones on llaltleliolds.
(Hy Herbert Temple.)
London, Oct. ?i.?At the outset <>(
i he tit.. European war, French
writers commenting on the probable
f ile of the Germans, had much to say
of'the "great secret" of Prance as a
factor in the great sti'Ugglc. Time and
again stories emanating from Paris
mentioned the " great secret" and the
mystery by which their country was to
Strike down the German hosts.
Not onCC has there been given an
inkling of the nature of the "great
.secret," hut a London correspondent
writing from Dieppe, after a visit to
the battle fields along tin* .Maine, be?
lieves that he has found It in the
throe-inch field guns used by French
which according to the stories, para?
lyze the Germans as they stand, killing
them apparently without wounding
them and leaving them much OS Were
left the victims of the great volcanic
lr aged lei of Ilerculaneum and Pom
poll.
The writer says: "A \isit to the Held
of the battle of the Marne shows tin
devastating power of the Fn nch
Inch held gun to be something of
which we hitherto had not dreamed.
Entire sections and companies] of
German troops have been struck 4s if
by simultaneous thumiei-bolts, I re?
minding one o( nothing so ranch as the
wholesale extinctions of the popula?
tions of Herculaneum and Pompeii-"
Buch an account sounds mysteri?
ous. Were tin- Germans killed where
they stood by violent and over-pow?
ering, poisonous fumes? Is that the
"great secretV" Continuing the cor?
respondent says:
"< >n the borders of < no of the fnr
*??*??;? n-couM>*-*fc* Of Pr^jK?iaii. ?injfctf. ??
at bivuuack is laid out as if it was sur?
prised by the tire. Two sentries are
still grasping their riflcg and a little
way off a messen gor lies by himself.
"Further on an onicer lice a few
yards from his man, who are stretch?
ed out with loosened belts and lying In
their blanket. . Two of them still hold
playing cards in their hands.
"Those sleeping and those who were
awal when they died evidently were
swept out '-1 life together without ap?
parently having had time to move."
The same thing is noticeable on
other battlefields in France, say va?
rious writers but not one of them has
made any : i 11 * mpt to explain the mat?
ter. Evidently, when the French talk?
ed about their "great se< r.-t,' they had
in mind something Worth talking
about, is the mysterious "withering
death" of their three inch neld gnus
the "secret." Apparently the results,
and the comments of observers Would
Indicate as much.
The Germans, according to all ac?
counts, have been Killed in some way
other than by bullets or fragments of
shells. They haw been smothered to
death, evidently by powerful coneus?
?Ion, or have been asphyxiated by
powerful tie idly gas.
Recording further instances of up
parently mysterious deaths among the
Germans, the correspondent says:
Even more extraordinary is another
nToup of sixty dead lying about a small
haystack as if in sleep their HileS,
stacked and their knapsacks arranged
in orderly heaps.
"In the outer ring the path of the
sln lls can be traced in a direct line by
heaps of bodies, hut the particular
shell thai killed these sixty struck
them in front, from behind and at Ihe
sides with the same sudden death und
yet none of them bears any outward
wound, There they are stretched face
downward or staring up at the sky.
seemingly paralysed by the mere force
of the explosion.
"The same mysterious results were
sten in many of the trenches where
Germans were piled in rows, The Ger?
inn n ai m> to I lie east and north of
Ithelms v us slated to be strongly In?
trenched in deep cuttings, with bomb?
proof shelters and rest houses under?
ground and very similar ones were
found ut I'els, Is hind the i htrcq. (inc
Ol tln se Was a nah and a i|U irter
long w Ith tunnels in all direct ions x el
it was tilled with dead.
"Along the w hole length of ? ''?<
lle line, according t<> all tin- utorie
nf Ihe French artillerymen, German'
never were iilde |o stand before tin
lire of tic I re;ie|t guns whenever i:
found Ihem i ut. l id lattcrl) as noon
tut a Kreuch battery opened, t hasty
retirement wa i quickly followed lo
heavy bom Im . 111 ? ? n t b\ bit: inlihiv
German art III? i'> rar out ? >f range.
"Thai ihe Germans are beginning lo
APPEAL 19 PRESIDENT WILSON
WOVLI) ISSUE $150,000,000 TO NAT?
IONAL IIA X KS.
?,-?
Executive Favor* Plan and Promises
lo Aid Farm ts in Their Eitorfs,
Washington, Oct. 7.?A dclogatlon
from the southern Farmers' Union,
with Senator overman and Congress?
men Small and Webb, accompanying,
appealed to President Wilson today in
relief of the southern <???tton growers.
Tiny lav?.red the establishment of a
cotton pool proposing the issuing of a
hundred and Hfty million dollars to
national hanks to he loaned on ware?
house receipts up to five million hales
which it is believed would take core of
the crop. President Wilson favors
the plan and promised to do all he
Could to aid them.
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DOTH FACTION'S GET SUPPLIES.
Mexicans Following Villa and Car
gftnza Take Advantage < ? the Ite
cently Raised Embargo on Mu?
nitions of War.
El Paso, Tex., Oct. 6.?Gen. Villa's
agents In the United states today en?
tered through this port 10,000 Ameri
nan-nun e rilles under tho recently
raised e nbargo on munitions of war.
Agents of Gen. Carranxn here also
have been purchasing all available
supplies, which are being rushed to
the assistance of Gen. [Till, w ho Is de?
fending Naeo, Honora, against May
torena's insurgent forces, supposedly
partisans of Villa.
Xo reports of lighting between Car
ran/.a and Villa troops, however, came
from other parts of the republic to
day. Little news from Villa territory
passed through the rigid censorship.
WILSON CONFERS WITH ENVOY.
I
Talks Wtll Sllllman About Mexican
('ondltloits.
Washington. Oct. ('..---President Wll
i -pn, r4cafe^;i:ed fur ?two Jhoujrs tonight
on the Mexican situation with Sec?
retary Bryan and .lohn u. Sllllman,
Who made a special trip from Mexico
at his own request to talk with the
I president. Xo intimation of what was
discussed was given out at the White
House after the conference. Secretary
Dryan refused to make any comment.
Mr. Silliman, who is Tinted States
eonsul at Saltilo, Mex., has been act?
ing as President Wilaon's personal rep?
resentative In Mexico for some weeks.
A few days ago he telegraphed the
state department asking permission to
eome to Washington for a consulta?
tion. He was told it wan thought beet
he Should return to Mexico City. Silli?
man was not satisfied and it Is said
his visit was arranged directly with
the president.
Been at his hotel after the confer?
ence Mr. Sllllman refused to say whi I
his mission to Washington contem?
plated Or What had been discussed at
the White House conference. The
fact that he was accompanied from
Mexico by Ulchard <*cde. who gave out
a itatemcnt at St. Louis suytng he
was coming to Washington In behalf
of Carranxa In Ihe belief that rccog
i .i.i,
nitlon of Carran/u by the l nlted
States would c ome soon, led to spec?
ulation along this line. To Inquirers
as to whether the question of recogni?
tion had been taken up, Mr. SlHlmnn's
only reply was: "The subject matter
of the conference is not to be given
to the press."
TO REOPEN DARDANELLES.
Tho Triple Entente arc Taking Step*
lo This l aid.
Petrograd, Oct. 7.?via London.?
M. Saxonoff, Russian foreign minister,
announced today that the powers com?
prising the Triple Entente (Russia,
Great llrltlan and Fronet ) are taking
steps to secure the reopening of the
1 Dardanelles,
feel discouraged Is gathered from let?
ters seised and statements made by
ollicer prisoners. A lieutenant of the
Twenty-sixth artillery regiment writes,
the Te nth corps has been lighting In?
cessantly since ihe beginning of the
campaign. Almost all our horses
Were g< ne. We had been under lire
from .". .\. M tu S P. M. w Itbout food
or drink. The French Klghth artil?
lery lire axis lenilic, I am ru worn out
that I can haii> sll on a horse ev a
iii ii walk, I'lven at nlghl our nan
caniml rod. A i'n in h airman last
ai b I 11| 1*4 M four hotlil is, I hive of
which killed and wounded lweut>
h< r: i s and four Uten. We et no let
ler'.
"An ollicer of Ihe l a u- ii.in miard
i i ? M v re dmenl arl? u with si vi .
c Slice t's and i?nl> Iiv< arc |??f| mil of
mol e 1 ha n ,IHMI men The i imei.l
is a mei e re lie.
MS HOLD ARTWERP.
German Attack Repuksd and Garrison
Recovers Lost Ground.
REPORTER THAT HEAVY ENGLISH REIXI olt< EMENTS HAVE AR?
RIVED TO AID IIELGIAN TOWN*?ALLIES CiAIX FLIGHT ADVAN?
TAGE ON EXTENDED LEFT WING, WHILE REST OF LINK IS
UNCHANGED ? PRELIMINARY SKIRMISHES TO GREATEST
BATTLE IN WORLD'S HISTORY IN EAST.
POUR MILLION IN BATTLE.
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Alsne Rattle Line Extended Into Bel?
gium.
Paris, i ?et. s. The great battle of
the Alsne has finally been extended to
Belgian soil, Furious fighting is pro-'
grossing around Menen, ypres, Poper
Inghe, Courtai, Waereghem and Au
denarde. This Is a considerable dis?
tance, however, from \'<ai Kluek's II
of communication.
Dynamite mines under a German
Ireneh near Koissons exploded, killing
live hundn <l < lermans.
The grand total of men now engag?
ed in eastern Prance ami Belgium is
rstimuted at four million. The battle
line is two hundred miles long,
stretching from the Woevre district,
in Lorraine, to the Komme river
and thence northeast into Belgium.
Douui and Tournai haw- been reoc
cupied by the Germans. No decided
< hange has tak< n place at the center
or on tin- allies' right.
GERMANS ROM BAUD ANTWERP.
General Attack Follows Refusal to
Surrender.
Antwerp, Oct. S.?Following the re?
jection of the demand for surrender,
the Germans have begun a general
bombardment of Antwerp at :'. o'clock
this morning.
The Qsemang . bave crocsed the
Xethe after desperate lighting. The
legations of the allied powers left by
boat and tunny government officials
haw departed.
SEIZURE A WAR MEASURE.
Ja|ianese Will not Hold Jaluit island
Pel manently.
Tokio, <?<t. S. Because intimations
of the American press thai the Jap?
anese naval activities in the Paeilic
were aim* d at the United States, For?
eign Minister Kato today assured the
American nmhassndor Guthrie that
Ihe seizure of the German islan i of
Jaluit in the Marshall Archipelago was
a military necessity. German cruisers
have been securing coal th? re and
raiding the allies' shipping. The offi?
cial declared thai Japan would not
occupy the island permanently.
Austrian? and Germans Unite.
Tsillg-Tuo Holds Out Against Allies'
Attack.
Berlin, Oct. 8. -(Wireless to. Kay
vllle)? It was officially announced this
afternoon that a junction of the Aus?
trian and German armies along the
Vistula, in the campaign against the
ItUSSiuns had been made.
Press report:; state that the Tsina
Tao garrison is repulsing the Japa?
nese-British attacks, it is regarded
here as certain that Antwerp is lost to
t he Belgians.
Fierce Fighting at Lille.
Ostend, < >ct. s.?Fierce lighting has
been going on for three days around
Lille. It is reported that the German
cavalry lost two thousand men it. an
attempt to take Lille. The French are
driving the Germans back and it is
reported that heavy reinforcements
have arrived it Antwerp and are aid?
ing the Belgians.
Prelude to World s Greatest Battle.
Petrograd, (?et. 8.?The main Kus
scian army in Poland has taken offen?
sive against the Austrian-German
army along the Vistula, it was olll
ciaily unnounced Unlay that skirmish?
ing between cavalry detachments of
the two opposing armies have been
progressing for nearly :i week. as a
prelude to the greatest conflict the
aorld has ever witnessed. The ar?
tillery is now getting Into action.
Germans Driven Rai k.
Pi i is < ?et. v -It w us olllcl ill; an?
nounced ? three o'clock this aft i u< "n
t hat I In ? b rmans had Is en diiv, it
buck north of Arras.
( i.i en * |>c rrt \litwci p.
Botterdam, ? ? i. s. A hundn d
I hole i lid refugees have lied I i < III V a.
iverp aul a ipaliuu 11. approaching cap
ture by tho Germare. Nearly all are
destitute an.l the Amins; is sorely
taking the reso' Vf the towns and
Village s in tr Jv5 a of Holland.
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Uoir <-crnment Moved.
Wo/ s^e / Oct. 8.?The Belgian
legi C As been notified by cab|a
p y Belgian government has 1>< sn
\^ j6q from Antwerp to Ostend.
Germans Progress stopped.
Paris, Oct. 8.?An official statement
this afternoon says that at no p< int
have the Germans been able to ad*
vance. The conflict is now proceeding
under conditions favorable to the Al
,,,
Ca\alary engagements have extond
ed almost to the coast Indicating that
the Allies and Germans counter flank?
ing movements spread out as far West
as possible.
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Lett Wing Extended to North Sea.
Paris, < >< t. 8. (Official)?The enemy
have made no progress on the left
wing to tho math. Operations of the
cavalry now reach almost to the
N?irtli Sea. Between the Somme and
lOise in the Boye region. Though the
enemy is in force, we have retaken the
gr< ater part of the positions previous?
ly yielded. On the Xeuso heights, be
lwe< n Verdun and St. Mihiel, the
Germans have withdrawn to the
1 j orih of liatton-Chatten,
a
Reinforcements at Antwerp.
London, Oct. 8.?-Heavy reinforce?
ment.-; of men an 1 artillery have reach?
ed Antwi rp. Though the war ofleee
her?> is r< ticent, it is known that they
are not Belgians. The artillery in?
cludes a number of big naval guns
and it is believed that the forces are
British.
Ilritisli Capture Prize Vessels.
Hong Kong, Oct. s.?The German
r.lcamer Tannenfels and the American
Me: uier Bio Paslg have been brought
hero by the British ships as prizes.
German Air Ship Over Paris.
Paris, au. . a German aeroplane
Hew over Pari? today and dropped two
bombs on si. Dennis. Three persons
were Injured.
Belgians Bcptilsc Germans.
London, Oct. 8.? Dispatches from
Rotterdam stab? thai the Germans
Who have been advancing upon Ant?
werp through a breach in the outer
line of forts have been forced back by
the Belgian garrison. The Belgians
have captured the Londelede forts,
but the Germans are still holding
T? rmondc a nd Alost.
COTTON MAY BE l SED.
Postomce rrgeii to substitute it for
Jute.
Washington, Oct. <>. - Representa?
tives Lever ol South Carolina and
Page ?f North Carolina called at the
postodiee department today to urge
the department to buy cotton twine
for wrapping packages. The depart?
ment has just called for bids for sup?
plying 2,500,000 pounds of twine.
Heretofore t lie department has been
using jute twine. Messrs. Lever and
Puge insisted that the government in
this situation could in a practical way
help ihc cotton growers of the South
bj substituting cotton material forthat
now being used. These gentlemen
found that the department was con?
sidering the proposition and expressed
themselves us beim: gratified at the
friendly attitude of the department to?
ward Pks proposition.
Cotton Mills Prosper.
Washington, Oct. 7. Southern cot
Ion mills are enjoying unprecedented
pro ,'i rlty, even it cotton painters are
i i .,..?? rdiug In letters read to the
eit.ee today by Senator Overman, of
North Carolina. Vor the lirst Ilms?
Ii 1 ? a \<:'is. one of ihe letters stat
.i one mill In Concord, X. C? paid a
i\ blend, i ii.it being fi per cent, a .id
? i? i ilb : I paid l?S i n\ mill i" that
lection. All the mills according to
he letters are workittK to capacity,
ind inakiug money.