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BURUNGTON. AUMANCE COUNTY, fiORTH CAROUNA, FaiDAY, SE?r. 4, 1914.
Offfcial Report From Beilin is that One Greatest Coups
' of H Story Made in East Prussia, including 300
Officers, 2 Generals and the Artiller^.
MoiKeoegriiis hiive defeRted the
’Biiek in Bofnia.
f'n. sci'oi'dms to the
al'.nou'.icemeiit, ha:s taken the offensive
and is mai'd;i;:g. oji.Tohainiteh in pur
suit of the Austrians,
AIR BATTLE FOUGHT OVER PARIS
Sussian 06Scial Report Admits Big Loss in Prussia, But Says Koenigsber^
Invested and Austtians TerribSy Beaten in Imense Seven-U»y Grapple
near Lcmburg in Galicia-^Little Servia Keports That She Has Won a
Great Battle Against Austria- -
GERAJAN BIGHT COMES ON. , “ T~7
TV HI rpu erais, three hundred officers, »na the
Paris, Sept. 1.-11:14—P. M.—The, . , •
» . , complete artillery of the Russian
following official statement was issued
^ j army,
by the war oince today; |
“On our left wilgr. as a result of HONOLULU.
the turning movement of the German I
anny, and in order not to accept bat
tle under unfavorable conditions, our
troops retired toward the South find
Southwest. In the reg'ion of Rethel
our f6rces have arrested the enemy
HiOinentarily. . In the center and on
the right, the situation remains un-
, changed.
GE&MXA AEROPLANE OVER OS-
TEN O.
London, Sept. 1.—8:3-i P. M.—A
German aeropUine flew ove^'Ostend
today» according to the Reuter Tcle-
^rram Company dispatch.
The dispatch adds that there has
been m considerable movement of
'troops to Brussels, 80,000 being due
to arrive there. The German gover
nor >i Brussels has ordered the ex
pulsion of all British subjects within
twenty-four hours.
MOKE BOMBS DROri^EO IN PAR
IS.
Paris, Sept. 1.—7 P, M.—A German
monoplane today droppe:i two more
bombs in the stfcets of I'Aris about
6-30 P. ai.
GEKMAN ADVANCE (HECKED-
Paris, Sept. I.—5:55 V. M.—Well
founded, though unofficiaU reports r\re
current in Paris? this evening; that the
* French have checUcd the Oerman ad
vance on the north.
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TURKEY TO JOIN WAS! NEXT.
WCif'bington, D. C.* Sept. 1.—Great
Britain has asked the United States
to take care of her diplomntic inter-
eiU in Turkey in case of u declaration
of war on the allies by the Porte,
- whirh momentarily is expected.
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GERMAN CONSUL ARRESTED.
I^don, Sept. 1.-11:30 P. M.—“Ac
cording to information reaching here ”
says a dispatch to the Central News
from Malta, '*Herr Von Bitzow, Ger
man Cmsul in Tripoli, hf»,5 Sieen mov
ed to Italy under arrest, charged witJ^
having carried on an anti-Italian pro-
j>aganda among the natives. The
Italian authorities have lodged a pro
test with the German foreign office.”
70,000 RUSSIANS CAPTURED.
Washington, D. C., Sept, 1.—^A Ger
man victory at Allenstein, in w'hich
three Russian army corps were de-
. German sanitary depai-tment official-
feated and Z0,000 prisoners, includjng |, . , , ,
Honolulu, Sept. 1.—The
cruiser Nurnbei'g wiU leave this port
tomorrow, cleared for action, to meet
the Australian wai'ships Australia :;nd
\V aiTego.
Three British nien-of-w.ii' today ac
companied the Britilh colUed Strath-
dale to the three-mile limit, and are
reported waiting outside. '•
Captain Schoenfaurg, of the Num
bers, said today that the Nurnburg
woui dnot surrender, and thai tie ex
pected the ship to tUo ccffin for
himself and his crew,
FURTHER AlWANCB «'N WEST.
“In the wcs> General Von Kluk, it
is reported, against the Fr-,nch flank
ing attempted advance to Combles.”
vHere part of the message could not
be clearly deciphered.) “General Von
Buelovi' completely defeated a superi
or French forcc near St. Quentin af
ter having, captured an 'S.ngUsh in
fantry battalion. Gen. \on Hausen
force dbatk the French upi.n the riv
er nt Rethei.
“The, Duke of Wuerte iliurg cross
ed the Mcuye river, also adv’aiici?ijr up-
iU't Aisiie. Ills Crown Prince advanc
ed beyond the Meuse, afttv capturing-
the entire (ramson of Motitmcdy,
which tried a -sortia. The fortress al
so was captured.
“The Crown Prince of linv-arsa .ind
Gen. V'on Hoeringen has l>eei; in con
tinuous battle in French I 'irraince,
0~“
SEDAN DAV OBSERVED.
‘‘Today, Sedan Day, v/ns celebrat?d
here by jubilation because of the vic
torious r.ev?s which arrived from the
East and West lust night. The Rus
sian defeat at Ortelsbuig recalls Se
dan by the hugh number i>f prisoners
taken.
*Tbe BraiiUan military attache at
Berh'n writes that the German Vic
tory did not come as surprise to
those who witnesses their maneuvers
in peaco and declares that the effect
of Krupp's heavy artillery is aston
ishing,
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DUM DVM CARTRIDi^ES USED.
“The Times correspondent at Ami
ens reports that ‘the (iermans came
over us like & 5ood raise*.* by a storm.
During the first month of ti»e war
more than 2,000,000 German volun*
teers cAme forward.' The chief of the
j of Rome, says the ‘Roumanian gener^
1 al staff considers the battle on the
Austro-Russian frontier will he de
cisive. They beUeve a defeat of the
Austrians will be followed by a gener
al insun*ection' and that, therefore,
;Whatever may be the i-acrifice, the
Austrians will not fall back. They
are now making a strong effort and
are recalling even the troops eng:\ged
against France and Servia.
RUSSIAN DEFEAT Pl.BLiSHElK
London, Sept. 1.—2:40 P. M.—Jleu-
ter's Copenhagen correspondent re
ports tbe rcceipt there of a Berlin dis
patch saying the German general stall
has published a statement that 70,000
Russian prisoners, among them oOO
oiBcers, were captured at the battle
of GiJgenburg. The Kussinn artiUery
is also reported to have i.een destroy
ed.
Gilgenburg is in East Pi*ussia, thir
ty-two miles northeast of Koenigs-
bergr. ,
IS RUSSIAN GENERAL DEAD?
London, Sept. 1.—8:43 P. M.r~A
telegram to the Reuters Telegram
Company, from St. Petersburg, says:
Lieutenant General Samsonoff, who
commanded a corps in the Russo-Pap-
anese war and who until lecently was
chief of the Russian Turkestan mili
tary di?.trict, is deeply regretted.
The foregoing would to indi
cate lh:»t General Samsonoff had died,
although no report of his death ha?
been received here,
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FRENCH AVL\TOR bRAING.
Paris, Sept. 1.—3r35 P. M,—Lieu-
tnant Campagnu of the ;iviation corps
while flying over the Gerni^m line;? at
a hegiht of 1,800 yards, wa." subjectf“d
to the enemy's fire. A shell struck hi.s
jRachine and stopped the motor. The
aeroplane oscillated violonlly in the
wind but righted itself anJ volplaned
into ihe French lines. He Janded
-safelv and gave important information
j concerning thq German position.
Deacnption of the exploit of Lieut.
Campnfrne was given -out officially to
day ►
AEROPLANES FIGHT OVER PAR
IS.
Paris, Sept. 2.-11:20 P. M.—A
f.ght in the air over Paris took place
this evening. Three German ye)o-
planes hovered over the and
two Russian commanding generals.
' ly declared there are m^iny proofs
.1 ^ that the English and Fre«ch are
were taken was reported today to the : ^
German embassy from Berlin by wire
less, via Vay^’ill«
says:
, L. t„ The dispatch *
ing dum-dum cartridges.
'^The State of Health of the Gerroan
j array is good noted bygjeiiists accons-
. I panying the army.”.
AUSTRLANS FIGHT TO FINISff-
"Official report of the victory at
Allenstein shows that it was even
pfreater than known before. Three
Russian army corps were annihilated. • , London, Sept, 1.^7:00 P. ftf.^A dixv*
Seventy thousar.d prisoners were ta- patch from Buchcrest> whicK teached
Icon, including two commanding gen- j.the C^:ntral News at London by waj
GREAT RUSSIAN VICTORS.
Petrograd, St. Petersbunrg, Sept. 2.
--^The official communication was is
sued by the Russian war oiTiec today:
“After a battle lasting seven days,
ihs Russian army seized heavily fo»’-
tifl3d positions around Lemburg (cap
ital of Galicia in Austria-Hungary),
about ten or tvrelve miles from the
town. The Russian troops then ad
vanced toward the principal forts.
“After a battle yesterday whi,ch was
fiercely contested the Austrians were
obliged to retreat in disorder, abandon
ing heavy and light guns, parks of
arlillery, and field kitchens.
government MOVES TO BOS
DEAUX.
Paris, Sept: 3.-12:02 .A. M.—A uro-
damation has just been issued by
the government a:inouncin^* that, the
government departments will be trans
ferred tempoi-arily to Borbeaux.
The proclamation was issued by the
Minister of the Interior^ who said
tJ'.e decision had been taktn| soleli' up
on the demand of the military lu-
tnorities because the • fortified places
of Paris, while liot necessarily likely
to ije attacked,, would becon.-c the pivot
of the field opemtioii' of cJie two jn-'
mias.
GERMANS ADVANCE IS POLAND.
Washington, Sept. 2.—The German
embassy received a wireless today
from Berlin announcing that “Ger
man and Austrian troops have occu
pied Dodz, the largest manufacturing
I'
.ding cans-
“Our advance guard and cavalry center in Russian Polai-.d, and that
pursued the enemy who suffered 6nor-'’the i.uttie northwju-d from Lemberg is
mous losses in
prisoners. .
killed, wounded and continuing
AUSTRIANS CO.MPLETELV DE
FEATED.
“The Austrian army operating in
tho neighborhood of Lembuig was the
third, elevelth and twelfth corps and
part of the Seventh and Fourteenth
corps. This Tivyny appears to havt
been •completely defeated.
^‘During the pursuit by the Russian
troops, the Austrians retreated from
Guila Lipa, were forced to abandon
thirty-one gun?. Our troops are mov
ing over reads encoumbcred with
parks cf Artillery and convoys load
ed with provisions of various kinds,
total number of guns captur
ed by the Russians aroutid Lemberg
amouMi.; to 150.”
A^VFUL ATROCITIES ALLEGED.
‘‘The report is confirmed/’ the nie.s-
.saKe aci?!', “that the Fr^jnch abduct
ed fourteen v.*omen and t^venty-five
children from a German frontier
place; ,aiso a hospital doLnor and as
sistant from Lorchingen, fate u:;-
known.
‘‘Tilt? papers aj’efull of Kusc-ian ijor-
rors in East Prussia. The Russian-
cut o»T the bi-eas.t of a mother and
impaled her five childi-eii on a fe^ice.
“Four Cossacks ravished a woman
while they handcuffed her husband and
foi*ce) him to be a witne.ifs.’^
Later the embasify received this
additional Vvirele.ss from Deriin:
“The newf that (JermaM troops huvs
loft Brussels ojj accou^U of the ^^!t^-
The foregoing dispatch waa seni di~;East Prussia is wrong. The
rect frum Petrograd by tho St. poj,. Orman administration Brussels i^■
ersburj;' Telegraph agency, the sciui-i active, t ivi) si-rvant^ arrivinjr
official Kuissian news agency, und i.s inewly oi-gjiniy-eil ofTiL'CK.
tho fivpt dispatch received iii Nnw | —o—
IGERM.AXV PROTESTS-TO CHINA,
I ■ Pekin, Sept. 2-—The German
jU-j:: bus protected to the lorrign of'
• :7ce against ar. alleged ialringenicr.t
|tf China's i’.&utraUty by Jajian. The
protest followed ^he landing, of a Jap-
I anese ..division at the iiew-y opened
jport rf. Lung-K->\v, lOD miies I'.onh
!of Tsing-Ti5u.
1 •
J News of tne Japanese i;
;.ed no snrpriire here, as tho Japunpse
; Legatior.s several days ago requested
I :he foreign oi^iee to ren'ove the iiivit
;of nuy kilometers taboui thirty miles)
•radius prescribed by the Chinese a:?
; the fighting area around Tsing-Tau.
I foreign ofRce did not comply with
;the request but it was understood that
;the Chinese troops woukl be instruct-:
ttd not to oppose ihe Japanese. The
Chinese cfBcials are descrii/ed as in-
i*vns--u lyjL afraid of doin^ anything
tha: might atTord the Japanese s.
cTu.'>2 for terrltoria] o? other e\ac**
t sons.
Wheiher British lorce-j will cros.-?
Sha;iiur.g Peinnsala with »he Japan-
is n-;i divulged, but the point i»
mu» h dir=cussed here.
RUSSIANS STILL ADVANCE.
Ntw York, Sept. 2.—Coionsi Niko
lai Golejewsky, military attache of
the Rus.sian Embassy, made public to
day at the Puasian con«U'ate here a
cablegram v.hich he said he had r^^-
ceived ft-om the Russian wit ' oHice ai
Peiergrad, St- Petersburg!. It crn-
fxrms previous official «tatements re
garding a Hu.=?.«ia advancc in the
northern part of Eastern Piussla. Re
garding the situation in southern part
of Ea.'J.en; ^he nic-jsagc
York direct from the Russian capital
since declaration of \.ar.
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SMR\ IA,\ ViCTORY COM-
PiiETE-
Nish, Servia, Sept. 2.—Via London,
}\ ?J.—-An ,official .statement is-
sueil today gives new and fuller de
tails 01 the battle of ,5edar. The Aus
trian force of 200,00f> men held a fav
orable position. But its retreat is ad
mitted defeat. The Austrians left on
the tleld of battle i0»000 dead and
more than 2,000 wounded acconiing
to the report.
“.Altogethe?*/^ eoiitinues the state-
mei^t, *MO,000 of the enemy were
placed hors de combat. We have .^ent
to the interior more than 4,000 .^len
whom we took prisoners and have
immediately two French m.v
were sent up to engage therot
Meanwhile riiles and macbfne guns
mounted on public bui'dings kept up
a constant fire. By this means one
of the German machines became sep-
ai*ated from the others and the French
*
aviators flew swiftly in its direction.
The German opened fire to which the
Frenchmen replied vigorously.
The engagement seemed to turn to
the disadvantage of the German w'ho
mounted speedily to a higher leveU
and holding this position was saved
from a furthers attack. Ho iinally
disappeared iti a nortwes*. direction
over Fort Romainville, after a vain
pursuit.
The other German aeroplanes also
escaped the fire of the guns tnd after
circling about for a considerable time
disappeared from \^ew,
BRAVE M0NT$:NEGRINS riCTORS
Cettinje, via London, Sept. 2.—S:12
p. M,—Although numerically inferior,
I captured sixty guns, much ammuni
tion, the material for the constriiction
I of A six hundred metre i ridge, and
1 a train.
* “The battle was of great import
ance because it was decisive. The
enemy retreated to Santreeic.”
CONTINUOUS BATTLE STILL R
GES.
London, Sept. 3.—12:10 A. M.— !'«e
official precjs bureau ha* iain^ tl«e
following statement:
^*ConUnuous fighting ha^' bean m
progress rdong almost the whole line
of battle. The British cavalry engag
ed with distinction-; the cavalry of the
enemy and b).*ushed them back
captured ten guns.
''The French army has continued
the offensive and grained ground in the
NO UUSSIANS AT KOEXlGSBF.KG.
•‘I'he I‘Ycj\ch officisH communique,
that *.hti Russian.'^ have completely in-
vejiled K(H*nigsbt'rg, i«; nl«;o He. The
Rui'.ftians have covered half the* di-*
tancc bctv.een frontier and Koenigs-
}>i*r/i :}ii daru now retreating ea.stward
at\er tht ann!hiii\ti’.>r. of their Najcw
army.
“Tbr Gazette Del Popolaro. a ret
apcctabie paper, calls Lordon a lie
factory comparable with Shanghai
during the Rus.so-JapaMi?.-f' war,
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BrifTER AGAINS TCHLRCHILL.
“Loi-d ChurchilTs declaration that
a victoriou." Germany %vou!*.i seek (ex
pansion in South .America appears to
be the climax of ridiculou.-; tales r.nd
an unscrupulous attempt to incite the
friendly nations of both North and
South .America a^zinst the German
people while the German jmcss here,
on the contrary, heartily welcomes the
progress and prosperity of free Amer
ican nationjs.
‘‘German soldiers returning from
Belgium, cruelly mutilated. tncrea*'€
the German people’s exasperation
against the revolting atrocities creat
ed by Belgian civilians.
THE LIE FREELY PASSED.
“Enormous excitement has been
caused by the Belgians^ attempt to
induce the w'orld, with London and
Paris, who are endless liars, as accom-
a;id plices, in the lielief that Gei'mdn sol
diers are authors of atrocities.
“The Socialistis German paper The
‘Vorwaerts* giving a shocking descrip -
Lorraine district. In othe?* regions j tion of a wholesale assassination of
of the war, the Russian army is in- \ Germans at Louvain. The Simplicis-
vesting Koenigsberg. The Russian Isimus, another publication, says the
victory, which is'complete fct Lemberg, i name of Belgium is the worst insult
alrejidy has been announced." ; that could be inflicted lipon civilized
GEli.MAXS ARE RELM'ORCEit.
“Thf Ge’ m:in« have c-o:''centrcited
reir’formen.c?,!  i:v. the whole of ihcir
fro'it and h'lve tiiken thv? ^'fFensivo a:
T=upt‘rir.r f%nve -, atrain.'^l lu-o of our
ar\ny covp.-. Tli.^ l*.>tter Miftcrc-d co-.-
siderabiy frtjiii the fire »f the hcuvy
artillery brought up by ihe encir.y
from hi^; forTre>:se? on ihe Vistula.
tSince then wv have brought up reiii-
I'orceniej'.t.^, canta’;:t vtih the 0!>
I omy i.'J heip.g n'iaintaisi-.d.
I "Or; ihe fro'Vt hs^a'-y
I i!ig contnuiA-;.
' VICTORS OVER AUSTRIANS.
j *‘0n .Septemlter lit. a^l the .\u.'-
' trinn attacks were repulsod, our trojp.^
: taking three gur.s, ten u'achine gui-s
S and ov'cr ov.e thousand prisoner.' wh.'y
-Stated thal the .Austrian losse.s w?r.^
very heavy.
‘Tn Eastern’. Galicia our udva«iCi5
continue.^. Especially .stuin'rn fight
ing took place on ibo river Gnil.'»i Lipa.
Hei'e a tjaturally strong pcsit»t>»> was
j elaborately fortified and, according t'>
the statement.* of the pri?oncrs, con
sidered :.y the Austrian.s t.:> be ini-
pregii:^ble.
“Tins ^.'osition has bei';M .nlceu }>v
out' tro'.'-;”. attempt to check oxir
advar •: ..y a counter-attack from the
dire i:i of Galitch failed. Aua:tria!is
were repulsed, iaeving 4,800 dead
the field. In th?s battle- oiir troops
took a large number of pri«:oners,
among them one general, 112 guns
Limmunhiori n>:d supply column?.”
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FISH SETS OFF USNE.
London, Sept. 2.—S:2.j p. M._Tcs-
cgraphing from Copenhagen the eni-
respondev.c of the Daily News say.s:
“Several private motortoats ha»-«
left for Cape Skagen, Denmark, to
search for mine^ w^ich are danger
ous to n^tra! ships. Persons arriv
ing hero fn>m Reval, Rtrssia, today,
say that while crossing tlie Gul£ of
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