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DEAF VVAHT A PUCE
BRITISH SINK FOUR
GERMAN .VESSELS
NEW TYPE OF BOMB GUN OF BRITISH ARMY
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BRITISH AND FRENCH ARMIES
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If Klao- Chow.
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of 1,600 Amer
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German war-
land only 831
WILL USE THE EAST INDIANS
Natlvas of India to Help England.
Germans Burn Hlstorle Louvsin
and Thrsattn Brussels.
London. Fleets of Oreat Britain
and Germany at last have come to
grips, and, according to reports from
London, victory lay with the British.
In a battle with British warships
oft the Island of Heligoland,, in the
North Sea, the Germans are reported
to have lost two cruisers and many of
their destroyers were badly battered.
The British claimed not to have
Buffered the loss of a vessel and de
clared there were few fatalities on
board the vessels of their fleet. The
German casualties were not stated.
The Islanll of Heligoland, which lies
45 miles off the mouths of the Rivers
Elbe and Weser, always has been re
garded a point of great strategic value
for the protection of the Kaiser WII
helm Canal and otherwise In the
naval defence of Germany. Recent
reports had It that a large part of the
flower of the German Navy lay In the
waters adjacent to the mouths of the
Elbe and Weser and In the Kaiser
Wllhelm Conal.
The French War Office in a state
ment said laconically that the situa
tion along Its lines showed no change,
adding that the Germans "apparently
have slackened their march." That
wa all.
One of the most Important ' an
nouncements wis made by Marquis of
Crewe in the House of Lords. It was
that Greet Britain would draw on the
native forces in British India to rein
force her armies in Europe.
The German forts at Tslng-Tau fired
on two Japanese cruisers reconnolter
Ing off the fortress. One of the cruis
ers wa said to have been damaged.
Louvaln, a Belgian town of 60,000
Inhabitants and wlth many historic
buildings, is reported to have been
burned by the Germans as an act of
reprisal for alleged firing on German
soldiers by Belgian citizens. The Bel
gians claim, however, that the people
,o( Louvaln did not commit the hostile
act charged, but that It was the Ger
mans themselves who fired on their
fellow countrymen. - s
Because of . the non-payment of a
war levy of 140,000,000 the Germans,
It Is said, threaten to aeiie the famous
pictures and objects of art In the
Brussels museums. - ( -'
LONDON FEARS GERMANS.
Afraid the Tueton Army Will Force
Way Into Paris.
London. News of the gravest char
acter came from France, where in a
single week the aspects of tie opera
tions have changed entirely.
Last week the allied armies were
pursuing an offensive campaign on all
the frontiers. Now according to offi
cial news received from Berlin Em
peror 'William la congratulating his
people on the success of the German
arms In the task of putting the "Iron
ring" around the allied armies from
CambraL Department of Du Nord,
France, to the Vosges, while Lord
Kitchener, the British War Minister,
came Into Parliament with the an
nouncement that troops from India
were being called to help the British
Army in France and that the British
Army Is to be reinforced Immediately.
The only consolation offered the
British public was the statement
from Field Marshal Sir John French
that In the heavy lighting against tre
mendous odds the British troops, who
suffered severely, bore themselves
with conspicuous bravery.
It already Is realized that the ter
rible struggle Is only at Its begin
ning and that the German plan of
campaign, openly revealed to Sir Wil
liam Edward Qoschen, then British
Ambassador to Germany, by Gottlieb
von Jagow, the German Foreign Sec
retary, as shown by the official paper
published a few days ago.
Burned Lovaln. i
London. The Belgian Foreign Min
ister reports that the Belgian city of
Lovaln, In the province of Brabant, has
been burned by the Germans. . ,
Fire From Safe Point
Peking. Military men here say that
the warships of the Allies', Including
the Australian dreadnought expected
in China waters soon, will be able to
bombard Tsing-Tau with safety, owing
to the range of their large guns, which
is greater than that of the guns within
the German fortifications.
Great Loss Sustained. :: 4
s London. Premier Asquith announc
ed In the House of Commons that the
British troops in Wednesday's lighting
were exposed to the attack of five
German army corps. - The losses on
both sides, he said, were great.
Bombard Matins. ,
London. The German continued to
bombard Mallnes, destroying or dam
aging most of th monuments, accord
ing to a dispatch from the Ostand cor
respondent of the Renter ' company.
They have not entered the town. ;
EXPECT RUSSIANS
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SHOULD TUETONS FORCE WAY
TO PARIS, THE CZAR SHOULD
REACH BERLIN.
BIG WAR NEWS SCARE ALLIES
French Change Tactics From Brilliant
Offensive to Better Protection of
the Frontier,
London. A closer veil than aver
seems to be drawn over the progress
of the war. Little news has come to
hand concerning the operations on
either front. The Russians, however,
appear to be continuing their advance
In East Prussia towards Posen, with
the Germans-in retrsaL i
The only news from the French
side is that French troops were at
tacked along the Alsace-Lorraine line,
but repulsed all attacks successfully.
There Is no Indication that the Ger
man attack was in any great force
but, If It was, the French succjss
shows that they now are In a strong
position along this frontier from
which they were driven only by great
sacrifice on the part of the Ger
mans. .
A more hopeful feeling prevail In
England as, to the strength of the
French defensive position. The re
pulse the French suffered at Ghar
lerol has been partly due to the de
sire of the French army to achieve
a brilliant incursion into Alsace and
Lorraine which led them to weaken
their forces on the Belgian frontier.
Having recognized the danger of this
course they now have reverted to
what appears to experts to be a more
legitimate strategy, abandoning their
invasion of the lost province and
concentrating their strength in the
defence of the northern frontier.
While It cannot be said, that the
British people regard the absence of
news and .the withholding of the list
of BrIMsh casualties with compla
cence, they display a large store of
patience and confidence in Kitchener
and the war office and the feeling of
depression evident on the flTst news
of the reverse suffered by the Allies
to some extent haB disappeared now
that it la known the German must
make tremendous sacrifices. ' i -Much
Is also hoped from the unex
pected progress of the Russian armies
In Prussia and the fact that the Aus
trian have been compelled to aban
don their campaign against Servla.
The belief is held here that even
should the Germans succeed in reach
ing Paris, the Russians will almost
certainly reach BerliS.
Vessels Sinks; Eleven Perish.
Seattle, Wash. Eleven lives were
lost when the steel passenger steam
ship AdmlraUJampson of the Pacific-
Alaska Navigation Company was ram
med and sunk by the Canadian Pacific
passenger steamer, Princess Victoria
off Polnt-No-Polnt, 20 miles north, ot
Seattle, during a fog and thick smoke
from forest fires. The Princess Vic
toria brought the servivors to Seattle.
; Ships' Sailing Date.
i Washington. Secretary Garrison
was advised that the steamer Patricia
of the Fabre Line, with, accommoda
tions for 2,100 passenger will sail
from Marseilles - September 4. The
Sant 'Ana of the same line with ac
commodations' for 1,900 passengers,
will clear Southern Europen porta on
these dates:; Marseilles. September
10; Naples September 14; Palermo,'
September 15; Almerla, September 17.
The Venzla and other vessels of the
Fabre Line are booked for (ailing In
the near future.
Germans Captured" Hera.
Newport News, Va.--Captured by
the German cruiser Dresden when two
days out of Barbadoes, en route to
Newport News for orders, but later re
leased after an agreement was made
not to assist the British fleet In any
way, the . British steamer . Lynton
Grange' arrived here and Is awaiting
Instructions from her owners. Cap
tain Simpson, of the Lynton Grange,
said that two days after leaving Bar
badoes the German . cruiser over
hauled him and after ordering him
to stop sent an officers on board. ' '
FRANCE DEPENDS
ON PRESENT BATTLE
IF FRANCE LOSES IN PRESENT
BATTLE MACHINE WILL BE
CRU8HED.
RECALL ARMY FROM ALSACE
A French Statement Says It Will Ba
. Necessary to Use Them Elsewhere
to Check the German Advance.
Paris. The war office has Issued
the following official announcement:
The commander-in-chief, requiring
all available forces on the Meuse,
has ordered the progressive abandon
ment of the occupied territory. Muel
hausen again has been evacuatd.
A new battlers in 'progress be
tween Maubeuge Department of the
Nord) and Donon, in Central Vosges.
On It hangs the fate of France. Oper
ations -In Alsace along the Rhine
would teke away troops on which
might depend victory. . It is necessary
that they all withdraw from Alsace
temporarily to assure its final deliver
ance. It is a matter of hard necessity-
' ... ;
West of the Meuse as a result of
orders issued recently by the com
manding chief, the troops which are
to remain on the covering line to take
up the defensive, are massed as fol
lows: : ,
The French and British troops oc
cupy a front near Glvet, which they
gained by hard fighting. They are
holding their adversaries and sharp
ly checking their attacks.
East of the Meuse our troops have
gained their original positions com
manding tha roads' out of great for
est Adrennas.
To tha right wa assumed tha of
fensive, driving back the enemy by a
vigorous onslaught, but General Joffre
topped 'pursuit to re-establish his
front along the line already decided
on. In this attack our troops showed
admirable dash. The stxth corps no
tably Inflicted punishment on the
enemy close to Vlrton. -
In Lorraine the two armies have
begun a combined attack, one start
ing from Grand Couronne de Nancy,
and the other from south of Lunevllle.
The engagement which began a few
lays ago continues at the time of
writing. The sound of cannonading
is not beard at Nancy as It was. ,
The fifteenth corps, which suffered
heavily in the last fight, bad the gaps
in its ranks filled and formed part of
one of the two armies'. It executed a
brilliant counter-attack In the Valley
of rezouze. The attitude of the troops
was Bplendld, effacing all memories
of their conduct on August 10.
Austria Give Japan Passports.
London. A dispatch ,from Vienna
to the Reuter Telegraph Company, by
vay of Amsterdam, gives the official
announcement that the Austrian Gov
ernment handed his passports to the
Japanese Ambassador, m.
English Troops Well Provided For.
London. Telegraphing from Paris
the correspondent of the Reuter Tel
egraph Company says: "A special
envoy of The Temps who has return
ed from the front, had aa opportunity
of seeing the English troops. He was
impressed, by the excellent commis
sary arrangements. Huge cases of
sugar, tea, cocoa, meats and vege
tables and enormous pots of Jam had
been provided for the men. Every
thing has been done, he said, In the
minutest detail.
British Are Satisfied. '
London. The British official now.
bureau issued the following announce
ments "There has been no further
of the British -troops 1 In every way
satisfactory," . ,
30,000 Germane Attack Mallnes.
". London A dispatch to The Times
from Ostend says that 30,000 German
are attacking Mallnes, a Belgian- city
13 mile southeast ot Antewerp. Skir
mishing ' general In Northwest Flan
ders.
GERMAN CRUISER IS S
A
Wllhelm der Groin Sunk by British1
High Flyer Off African Cos.
Gen. Joffre Pralsss.
London. The conflict of mlllionSat
last Is In progress.
Even the sinking ot the Germ'
steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosi
pales besides news of the tltani
battle and the realization that th
Allies are, fighting to block the road
to Paris, with the Germans hardly
farther away than New York is from
Philadelphia.
Meanwhile the Russian host ' Is
drawing nearer to Berlin. Not even
during the first great struggle be
tween Europe and Asia on the far
Manchurlan Plains was the enormous
battle fought In such Impenetrable
silence as far as concerns the outer
world.
Only the vaguest generalities are
given to the people of Great Britain
and France by their respective Gov,
ernments. Probably the German
people know as little as outsiders
of what their armies are accomplish'
Ing. .
Among the information the public
obtained today was the report an
nounced by Premier Asquith in the
House of Commons that the army
was engaged against a superior force
and fought splendidly.
Winston Spencer Churchill, First
Lord of the Admiralty, announced the
sinking of the Kaiser Wllhelm der
Orosse In the House of Commons to
day. He eald:
"The Admiralty has Just received
Intelligence that the German armed
merchant cruiser Kaiser Wilhelm der
Grosse, of 14,000 tons, and armed with
10 4-inch guns has been sunk by the
H. M. S. High Flyer, off the west coast
of Africa.
'.This Is the vessel which has been
interfering with traffic between this
country and the cape and is one of
the very few German armed auxiliary
cruisers which succeeded in gettiag to
sea. The survivors were landed be
fore the vessel sank. The Hfgh Flyer
had one killed and one wounded.'
COTTON GROWER HAS CA8H.
McAdoo Says Co-Opsratlon of Busi
ness Should Relieve Stringency.
Washington. Notes with a maturity
of not longer than four months, secur
ed by warehouse receipts for cotton
or tobacco, will be accepted by the
Treasury Department from National
banks as a basis for tha Issue of addi
tional currency which may be used
to help farmers pick and market their
cotton and tobacco crops.
These notes, according to an an
nouncement from the department will
be accepted at 75 per cent of their
face value and must be presented
through currency associations provid
ed under the Aldrich-Vreeland law.
In making this announcement Secre
tary McAdoo said there is adequate
power -under existing law to Issue
enough currency through National
banks to meet any reasonable demand
and reiterated his statement that "it
is not necessary to extend the note
Issuing privilege to state banks." He
pointed out that he has power to issue
one billion dollars of additional cur
rency If required.
- Fought He ivy force. .,
London. Premlei Asquith announc
ed in the House of Commons that.Fleld
Marshal Sir John French, commander
of the British expeditionary force, had
reported that he was engaged against
a superior German force. The British
troops fought Bplendldly, and General
French considered the prospects In the
Impending battle satisfactory.
Address the People. .
Paris. The, new Cablnent for Nat
ional defense decided to make a decla
ration to the people of France, Par liar
ment not being In session.
First Wounded.
London. The first British wounded
from the Continent, numbering about
30 arrived by steamer at Folkstone
from Boulogne. ; ;
Had Talk With Wilson.
Washington. The French Ambassa
dor, Jules Jusserand, discussed the Eu
ropean war with President Wilson.
Later the President told callers that"
the discussion was of a general char
acter. The Ambassador said that no
protests against alleged German atroc
ities had been presented, i. I
i-" ":i British in Oatend. " V r'
London. It Is stated that British.
marines have occupied Ostend to pre'
vent the Germans from getting a foot
hold on the English Channel.-
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. Bad Roads Help, - ; .. :-Tsing-Tau.
There la no evidence
here of the landing ot Japanese troops
Inahe Klao-Chow territory. It is be
lieved that the heavy roads ol Ktao
Chow after the summer - rains will
deter any Japanese attack tor many
days. - - -''-;
X
..Wd iotirn After
Association of Desona and
Passing Resoling Meeting.
''iWltlt the election of offl
Charlotte. J for the ensuing term.
rs to servl or Wilmington for the
electlonl meeting and the adopt-
t blennialf resolutions urging the
fit itrongpgnltlon to the deaf on
or xece of the State Institution
ectoratitbe fourth biennial con-
anton 'North Carolina Associa
Mini
te if came to a close at the
ffptel here. The last
a splendid moving
Vai the benefit or thnaa
Vcture forV... a... ,i ....
a m. Z'lr. ",TW Wch con-
M,.;:, .riT " ..lt features.
In the estlma-
The CharlotteV meeting
tloa of those Vresent,
has been the
history of the
most successfulVin iheL
organization. TV
tendance has
ll high and the
oeen large, tne perVonnl.
lectures given of exfft
ordinary inter-
est-
Naming
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The election of ofilcer" refulted " f
follow: Mr. Charlet.,, ' Jone, of
Lattlmo,e, president,?"" "Z
tune Ot Durham, vlct, pre,8'nt: Mr'
Robert ft Taylorot ) ' J
retary an Mr. John ' M11 er Mor!
ganton, treasurer. "'t0" Kof
Messrs. Jones, Tayloi ni Mlller
ing by unahlmous vot" '
The most interestC Plrlted': -discussion
of the daylT8 lhat center- v
ing about the resol " offered by ,
the resolution ,,comrttte Mrur
representation (for tlilw1'11 the rf
board of drleitors if ltl scho1 of ' .
MorgantOii. Tere wre several lively
speeches and j the Resolution was'
part of Messrs. r. c. n(1 Robert Mil
ler, who are fetcher ln lh lnstltu
tion. Thsy Indtcuesj tnat "W favor- . . .
ed the resolution"! the p0,lcy of the ' '
administration' feJthoritles' being ,
against it, felt that fey cald not vote
for It. The leader in the discussion
favoring the resoliion were Messrs. -''.
Robert S. Taylor; Hilton H. Johnson, :
Beorge Bailey and, i"tliers. ' y "
Prior to adjournment Ifiss Bessie .'
Willie Ol lUUriUll.? f'c a uwhiiiui .
rendition In slens ol the hymn "God l
(n v mi ivh a in i"- 0.... .
The resolutions W application were
addressed to the c
Uzens of Charlotte,
Greater Charlotte
and other hotels,
Club, Mecklenburg
ideal entertainment
committee of whiul
h Mr. W. Ii. Hack-,
ney is chairman;
newsDaners. rail-
Valk-r, Rev. 0, C.
roads, Prof. W. I.
Wilder, Miss Roblua Tillinghast and
the retiring officers of the association.
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The North Carolina Potato Patch.
. Washington. Tfte North Carolina
Irish potato .patch contains 30,000
acres his year andthe total production
will be approximately 1,693,000 bush
els, according to estimates made by
the United State? Crop Reporting
Board. The condition of the crop is
(2 per cent of normal and the price
at the present tlmi ls averaging around
96 cents cents pel bushel.
In Continental1 'nileri States there :
are 3,708,000 adh planted to this :
product and thfef ear s production is
estimated at tf.014.rinn bushels by
the Federal rjslirtnient of Agricul
ture. This yA'S- rcp will exceed
the average
dtf of the p
past five
years by appro!
' -itely 4.(100.000 bush- "
els. The-Nafl
v production last !
year was 331.1
;M0 bushels, was.
produced on
Is.ono aires of land
and sold for. ti
age of 90 cents
ISM.OOO, or an averV
r liusliel.
Negro Doctoof Close Convention..
Raleigh. Thaj-ixteenth annual cony
ventlon of the Hjsro National Medical
Association closed here recently with
the election ot fr. F. S. Harprave ot
wuson as preaioeni, io succeed Dr. A.
A. Brown ol Mirmngnam. Va. whw
ls a native of Rsfleigh. Dr. v. G. Alex
ander of Orang, N. J., was reflected
general secretary- About 200 legr0
doctors were hfcre for the three-dv
ceuvvuuuu.
Big BricRkCompini
Hendersonvllle. 1
'if Brick ' i.
Comtlany lias Ibeen i
ton with the f ollowig
Ised stick.
Officer
Pace, presid.
president; J.
C JherrlU, secretarV and
ier; J. r. Mono n
general ms
treasurer.
e new concern has nni..'
cnasea u
longing to
of clay, formerly be-
. iwcuowe 1. It y.m .
160-horsepo'
r ooiier plant and
equipped
manuiactiiT n vk n
brick a d.
with a posBibla ..n.U
"""'r "rHs anu burning kiln,
.' Wy c-' Big Shark.
. -2iewbe)ra.A shark, eight feet M '?
length, rfnd which was one of the tar-ge-jv
vtit caught wlth a line u thatl
M.cUon,lw landed a few" days nnJ
nW oVhead City - by UtoT.ifi
ber of s fiBbing ,nd campini party
whe hv been spending weelrW
"The UP-Th, deewe. m.ter
put , plucky fight for bis llb
after belhg en,n.red on the hooKm
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