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OPPOSING
IN FIERCE
TWO-THIRDS OF BATTLE LINE
Statements From Both Sides AreWodred With
Characterized the Claims Made by Both Germans and Allies so Far,
Agreed That the Allies Continued Then Advance During Day
GERMAN AIR FIGHTERS ARE
AGAIN BECOMING ACTIVE
Bombs Are Dropped in Paris and Several Other
Cities, Inflicting Some Damage Russians
Continue to Move Forward in Galicia
LONDON, Sept. 27. (9:15 p. m.) Along
almost two-thirds of the great battle line across
northeastern France the armies of the allies and
Germany fought fiercely today, at some points with
the bayonets, and tonight's statements from both
sides are worded with optimism that has character
ized all these official pronouncements. It was
agreed that the allies had continued their advance.
-The French claimed
(
mrfmirtmouncementfrom BerftriTth&Icfr irtsisf-
,xngTthat the advance had been jepulsed, neverthe
less referred to it as an advance.
Elsewhere along the battle front neither side
seems to Have achieved any notable success.
Russians in Galicia.
The continued forward movement of Russian
troops in Galicia; the appearance of German air
craft dropping bombs over various places in Bel
gium, and again in Paris and Warsaw and the move
ment of vast bodies of German troops into Russia
by way of East Prussia were chiefly significant in a
summary of the events in both theatres of war.
Of the German bombs thrown none seems to
have done extensive damage. One man is report
ed to have been killed in Belgium and one in Paris.
The explosives in Paris fell near the quarter occu
pied by many Americans.
There is an unconfirmed rumor that an attack
on Antwerp is impending.
Neither army has achieved anything notable
since the allies have reported progress in one direc
tion. The allies at one point claim to have thrown
back a desperate advance by the crack Prussian
guard, and the Germans insist that today, with a
weaker force, their right has checked the advance
of a mixed French and British force brought up by
rail.
Bayonet Still Factor. ,.
Recurring references to bayonet charges seem
to prove conclusively that this picturesque and ro
mantic phase of warfare, which it was thought had
been killed by the advent of great guns and other
equipment of modern armies,' is not all a thing of
the past.
The French official communication says that
at some points the trenches are only a hundred
metres apart; thus a small portion of the millions
engaged have known the stimulation and thrill of
. Jiand-to-hand fighting.
. Dispatches from Petrograd report that fierce
sighting still goes on in Galicia, though Cracow, to
wards which the Russian hosts have been march
ing ever since Przemysl was, invaded and communi
cations cut, has hot been attacked.
; To the north, the German invasion is assuming
ii vaster proportions noiwiuisianamg me ruissian war
r ! .i n.1 : i i . : i .
onicc insist uicti me viciiiidiis arc ucing repuisea ac
the frontier. It was estimated here that the Germans
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irom CAlCiiua uuui uic uaiut WMbl tu UlC SUUUiem
Vw-iirJarv nf .Silevna a rlicrsirW of akonf iflft mil.,
What opposition the Germans have met is be
lieved to have been little more ' than -a -cavalry
AMIES CLASHING
CONFLICT ALONG
!marked progress." The
the Optimism That Has
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Four Bombs Are Dropped by.
Aeroplane, Doing Con
siderable Damage?
MISSILES ARE MOST
POWERFUL YET USED
One Man's Head Blown
From His Shoulders and
Child Wounded.
Four bombs were dropped on Paris
from .German aeroplane today. One
missile exploded In Avenue du Tro-
cadero and bled the head from the
shoulders of a man standing on a cor
ner with his daughter. The child was
wounded. The other bombs did lit
tle damage.
Crowds were promenading on the
banks of the Seine when the aerial
warrior appeared almost directly over
the Eiffel Tower. It is believed the
first bomb dropped Waa intended for
the wireless station on the tower or
possibly for nearby buildings contain
ing army stores. It landed in Avenue
du Trocadero, not far from the tow
er, and the explosion waa heard for
many blocks. Houses in the vicinity
were badly damaged. The bomb
struck only a block from the Amerl
can embassy at No. 5 Rue de Chail
(Continued on Page Fife.)
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IS OF PEACE
So Declares General Villa In
Reply to Messages From
Capital
HIS ONLY TERMS.
HE
RAID Oil PARIS BY
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CHIHUAHUA, Mexico, Sept. 27.-J
Immediate resignation of General
Venustiano Carranza from the su
preme command of the constitutional
ists is General Francisco Villa's only
basis of adjustment of the present dif
ferences, according to his reply to
messages from officials In Mexico City
iwho protested against Villa's defection
from his former chief. General Villa
declared he would never accept Car
ransa as head of the republic.
General Villa's complete reply as
given out here today follows
,"I l .ment the circumstances which
have brought about grave danger but
sincerely protest that my sole ambi
tion will be to arrange existing diffi
culties without shedding blood if pos
sible. I emphatically state, however,
that the only move which can bring
about cematlon of hostilities on my
I'Rrt is that Venustjano Carranza d
I'vcr subreme command to Ferdnando
Isics'as Ca'deron so that, in the short
est pos.ib'.e time, elections may be
culled-
"At the same time I declare that I
shall not a crept carranza as president
or vice-president or president ad in
terim, or constitutionalist of the re
public. 1 shall prove the rectlttide of
my Intentions and the disinterested
neas which,anlmates the forces of this
division. Later the world will realize
where rest true disinterestedness and
THE WEATHER.
WASHINGTON', Sept 1 7. Forecast
for North Carolina; fair Monday irj
Tuesday '
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4 ' ;v.. EUHOPEArJ WAR IS .
GERMAN CHURCHMEN PLACEJALL
BLAME FOR EUROPEAN
Say That Germany Wat
LibertyRepudiate Charge
Emperor,
NEW TOttK. BntV. lj-Th bMti-
al council of churfces-'tenltfht made
pdhllo a communication fram twenty
nine leading Creteatant bhurchmen of
Oermany repudiating In behalf ' ot
German Chrlsyanlty and the German
government responsibility , for , the
European war and fixing it, on "those
who Ion, secretly and cunningly nave
been spinning a web ot conspiracy
against Germany, which now ' they
have flung over us to strangle us
therein," The communication is ad
dressed 'To The Evangelical Churches
Abroad."
"Its war-like tone," says a state
ment issued by the federal council,
"and vigorous denunciation of Ger
many's opponents u a matter of con
siderable surprise to council mem
bers here.
Network of Lies. .
nA systematic network of lies," Hie
communication reads, "controlling
the International telegraph service is
endeavoring In other lands to cast on
our people and Its government guilt
for the outbreak of this war and has
dared dispute the inner right of us
and our emperor to invoke the awil st
ance of Qod."
The communication points to Ger
many's forty-three years of peace and
to her material development "in
friendly competition with other peo
ple" and declares ihat "only under
compulsion to repel a wanton attack
has she drawn the sword." Her
frontiers threatened, Germany wai
compelled to protect herself "from
being ravaged by Asiatic barbarism,"
it la declared.
"Over against a world In arms,"
Drops Bombs in Several
Cities, Doing Much Dam
ageSails Toward France
LONDON, gept. 27. (8:17 p. m,)
German Zeppelin made a bomb-
dropplng tour last night, visiting sew
eral Belgian cities, according to a
Reuter dispatch from
airship passed over A lost.
Dynxe, Mlnelbeke fend
Ilolleghem,
dropping nve bomoe.
At Dynse a man was fatally Injur-
ed when a bomb struck a hospital
near which he was standing. The
building was b lly damaged, - Anoth
er bomb, dropped at ftollegkem, did
no damage.
Retiring by way of Thlelt, the
Zeppelin dropped two bomba on the
gas works there, causing great dam
age. ' ..
The airship then proceeded by way
of Cmjrtral in the direction of France.
DEITY RKPORTS.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 The Jap
anese embassy tonight Issued this
statement::.
"The Japanese embassy Is author-
inl riom Tffkfay )o dewy eetegnrtgwlty
the reports given circulation a few
days ago that, the-Japenese govern
ment - intends - to build a narrow
gujate railway, from the seaport
THE ENEMIES OF THEIR COUNTRY
Forced Into War and is
That the War Wan Bnught About by the German
and Declare Right ti Call
tb -ounvniioioatton " ctrttMv
recpgols clearly that, we have to da
fend .our existenoe j4.r1hono.
No scruple holds- back our enemies,,
when In their opinion, there is a pros
pect through our destruction of seis
ing for themselves an increaas e(
power, our colonial possessions or our
trade, : W stand vr agal nnt tliU
raging of the peoples, fearless be
cause our trust In Ood. Precisely be
cause this war has been thrust upon
us wantonly it finds us a single pea
pie in which dlstlnotlens of race and
rank, of parties and confessions have
vanished. In a holy enthusiasm not
shrinking from battle and from death
and looking to God, we are all of ona
mind and prepared Joyfully to etaks
our all for our land and for our lib
erty." "Fnnammble Horrors."
It is declared that "unnameabl
horrors have been committed against
German living peacefully abroad,"
and that "into the. war which the
csar has openly proclaimed as the
decisive campaign against Teutontsm
and Protestantism, heathen Japan Is
called under the pretext , of an alli
ance, "Not tor the sake of our people,
whose sword Is bright, and keen, but
for the sake of the ' unique world
task of the Christian people in the de
cisive hour of the world mission, we
now address ourselves to Evangelical
Christians abroad In neutral and In
imical lands.
"If the peoples among whom mis
sions and brotherly love had begun to
be a power lapse. Into savagery in
murderous war through hate and bit
L
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French Deny Establishing
Observation Station in
c
Cathedral Tower.
WAHHIN'OTON. Sept. 2AThe
French embassy made puttllc the fol-
lowing communication today:
"The French government has been
imm uiru nittv ui "im.ll RKVIIII-
bardment of
the Rhelms
f,i .!
(nrt denied ana now openly an
knoWledged by Its authors), had been
caused by a French post of observe-
tlon having been established on the
cathedral.
"A telegram of General Joffre to
the minister of war shows that the
destruction was, as stated before,
without the shadow of .excuse. The
telexram Is as follows:
" 'The Fifth (French) army had
occupied Rheims until September IS
and then was relieved by the ninth.
Both declare they established no post
of observation on the cathedral, the
systematic bombardment of which
began on the nineteenth at 1 p. m.'
- AMERICANS IX SWITZERLAND.
f PARtft p:tT. -There 1 are he
tween got and . tOO . Amreleana , in
Swiserland according to the latest esti
mate. Host of those remaiobig are
wealthy and are In no hurry to go
WAR ON
Fighting for Her Honor and
on God,
terness; ff Christian. Kurona forfeits
a notable portion of he .position in
DuM-wsrldr- tba- guilt of.ihiswts not
n our p)pl. We know that through
this sanguinary Judgment Ood is call
ing our nation to repentance) and we
rejoice that she Is hearing Ills holy
aoice, and .turning to Him. ilut iu
this we know ihat we can. and must
repudiate responsibility for the terri
ble crime of this war and all Hi con
sequences for the development of the
Kingdom of God on earth.. With the
f.M.p1.convlc"on "V
It to those who have long secretly
and cunningly been spinning a web
of conspiracy against Germany, which
now they have flung over us in order
to strangle us therein." .
' The communication was made pub
lic with the following comment by
the Hev, Charles MacFarland, secre
tary of the council: -' "
"I do not see how a statement of
this kind can help matters. Ameri
can churches are endeavoring to
maintain without Interruption the re
lations previously existing with the
German churches and with the
churches of all other nations. Our
attitude is more than one of neutral
ity; It Is an attitude of concilia
tion." GEKM AWA RKPCTUttO). .
LONDON, Sept. S7. 4:47 p. m.)
A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
from Peking says it Is officially an
nounced there that Pel-Ho was occu
pied September 27 by a small Jap
anese detachment which repulsed 100
Germans.
WILL THY TO RELIEVE
It
Southern Planters, Bankers
And Cotton Men to Meet
At New Orleans. .
NEW OKI-KANfi, Sept. 27. South
ern planters, bankers and business
men will assemble in convention hert
to devise methods of re-
llj,ln 4u. Uri.,. .l..,n,tM 1 ,Vm
fnttjn marknt anil f it n. nAr h
fonfrontlng the cotton crops
vi ivia auo in),
The convention is the outgrowth
of the conference held here August IT
and 1 1, under auspices of the South
ern Cotton association, which de
cided It was without power to enforce
action. The conference sdopted a
plan for a convention at which plant
ers, bankers and business men could
be represented properly. . , .
Questions concerning the percent
sge of cotton acreage reduction for
next year and a minimum price for
this year's crop are expected, to . be
the principal themes for discussion.
BOMBA RDING MAUNFA '
, LONDON, Sept 27 (:IJ p. m.J
n-mam ivn 1 to inff-neuter j eiegrs m
eompaay from Antwerp says the Oer
mans4today jrecommenced the b"m-bardment-of
'Miilincpt. Th !
were obllppd to r - 'f f
icon
WiLL.CJJAHGE MAP;
Countries Now Practically in '
Bondage Will Again Be - 1
' come Free.1 ':.'.. :
ALSACE-LORRAINE
WILL GO TO FRAIJCS ;
Wishes of People In the Dif
ferent States Will Ee
Respected.
(Correspondence of Associated Pi pss.)
1XJNDOK, Sept. 87. After the war, ,
then what Englishmen to a nu.i
expect Germany to be crushed in the
present contest and are busily ensur
ed In discussing event which inUut,
follow a declaration of peace. ,
In a recent recruiting speech Win
ston Churchill first lord of the ad
miralty, warned England against
making the error Germany made In.
1170, when she had France lying proi--trau
at her feet. He(eald; ns,
whatever-we do, fight for and work
towards great and sound principles
for the European Astern, : And the
ant of thoiw ;prln-ti! which we
Should keep before us is the prln.
ctple of naUonaJitiesf-ihttt is to say,
not the conquest or subjugation of ns
great community ; -or; of any strant,
race of men, but the sotting frt. r:
those races which bifve.been sut .jin -ted
ami conquered; and It doubt r ;;
abouC dlRiutcd ateii.t of t rr': -v i
should try t settle Diuii' u.uiii:.) - -tlnallon
in tha reconstruction of I i
ropa which must follow from this c.
with a lair regard to the .wixhoe ani
feelings of the peoples who live in
them." v.
Merely An Et ho. '
t Mr Churchill's expression of the
opinion that Europe's map win be
thoroughly remade is merely an echo
ot the talk of men of all clases. iu
the windows of many shops are signs
Keep trade in the usual channels
whllo ths map of Europe Is being rer
made." Lecturers, preachers and edi
tors ars eonstantly dlsoussing the pro
bable redistribution of European ter
ritory, -
Doubtless Germans and Austrians
art also planning for the dlvslon ot
territory that they expect to acqulno
through the war and art arranging a
(Cvottnaed oa rag Five.)
lkisutid:i co:.:e d?
INCOKGmiSllK
War Tax Bill, , Passed By
House Is Before Senate
Committee. .,
CLAYTON BILL FIBST.
WASHINGTON, Sept, JT.-Congresi
this : week will undorUk enactment
of the war Ux bUl and completion ot
anti-trust legislation. The war reve
nue measure already passed by the
house, is before the senate finance
committee. Tha Clayton anti-trust
bill conference report will be taken
up by the senate Monday. '
Administration leaders believe, botlr
of these measures can be disposed of
within ten day. Both, however, will
be assailed. ;
Notwithstanding President Wllson'g
endorsement of, the Clayton bill, it Is
understood, an effort, will be made to
have It recommitted on. the ground
that It has been weakened by elimi
nation of specific penalties and modi- .
flcatlon of many features, Tha sen
ate finance committee hopes to have
the war tax bin ready for the senate
as soon as the Clayton bill is dis
posed of. . The committee Still has
under consideration the substitution -of
a tax on automobiles for the pro'
osed two cent tax on gasoline. In
this they are receiving strong support
from many house democrats..
' Conferences of democratic leaders
will be held tomorrow to consider the -legislative
program for the rest ot
the session, and there Is every indi
cation of a decision to drop the bill 1
for the government purchase of ocean,
going shlj. ,
While the senate debates t)i O .v.
ton bill, the hnnse will c t i' -cussfort
of the Jone, l i'l t .
way fur r!,.;.ri i
measure, d.-inorr.".-..- i
will et..-,.. ,- .
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