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A PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OP AMERICAN HOMES AND AMERICAN INDUSTRIES, BURLINGTON. AUKANCE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, SEPr. n, 1914. FATE OF the Ef.gUsh and French Repart They Have Driven ^ mans Further back, while Berlin is Silent about Triple Battle of 3,000*000 Men in France. offensive .movement. No n*\vs of this • been received from thi^ side,” BATTLE HAS WEARIED GERMANS English Parliament Votes, to Place Army of 1,400,000 in the Field from Great Britain Alone, not counting Territorials and Thtose of Domin ions and India—Germany Bushing Reinforcements to the Battle Line Before Paris in Kope of Turning The Tide. London, Sept. 10,—11:00 P. M.—The crucial battle of the war in France has. not reached any decisive result. Field Marshal Sir John French, the commander of the British forces, re ported today that the Germans had been driven back all along the Hue; that the British had crossed the river Marne; that the Germans had suffer ed severely, and that their men were supposed to be in an extremely ex- liausted condition. Notwithstanding this report, mili tary experts do not rush to sweeping conclusions. Military writers in the London papers repeat that from the. conservative terms of the French of ficial statement yesterday it i.s too early to anticipate the result of a battle extending over a froat of near ly a hundred miles. Three million men is the number estimated to be engaged actively and as reserves, and three great battles at least are in progress. ' THREE GREAT BATTLES. Probably the fiercest struggle is against the French center, between enterprise. Another mine disaster, the victim of which was the tramp steamer Otto- wa, has been added to the list and the advisability of closing the North Sea to merchant shipping is being discu-^s- ed. Both England and Germany would suffer through strangulation of their trade, England losing food supplies from Seindinavian coiirstricsf v.'hsic Holland promised to be Gerraany’.= principyl avenue of commerce with the outer world. —o— CKOWN PRINCE IN COMMAND. London, Sept. 11.—12:40 A. M.—Ac cording to a Petrograd dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company, it is believed there ttiat the German Crown Prince has S»een appointed com- mander-in-chief of the forces against Russia. BELGUJVS DRIVING GEBMAN.S. London, Sept. 10.—10:07 P. M-— An Ostend dispatch to the Exchange Telfffrmph.Company says: “According to Jnrormation from & health of our troops remain excellent. There is no confirmation of new;: published in the German newspapers of the fall of Maubeuge. TKEMEXDOUS GERS1.\X LOSSKS. I Paris, Sept. 10.—11:55 P. M.—Ac- coi*dir*g to a Maiiieh report receive^ here the Berlin garrison alone has lost 42,000 men killed or wounded in the war thus far. ANOTHER PRINCE INJURED- London, Sept. 10.-11:30 P. M.— Prince Joachim Albrecht of Pintssia, was wounded yesterday by a shmp- nel bullet, according to an official Ber lin dispatch, which has been forward ed by the Amsterdam correspondent of the Keuten Telegram Co. The bullet penetrated the thigh but is believed not to have injured the bone. Rheims and Verdun, while the British tj,e Belgian army at army is contesting the second hard- assumed a triumphant fought engagement agBinr,t the Ger- movement, driving the Ger- man rishf. The Germans are bel.ev- environs of I.euvayn. FLOOD DELAYS JAPANESE. Pekin, Sept. 10.—Floods have dday- ed the Japanese advance on Tsing Tau. The waters cover the country sur rounding the town, have claimed many lives, and are spreading inland. It Is said that probably it will be months before th« Japanese can begin their investment of the stronghold, which now can be reached only by boat. Loss of life and great destructiun cf property are attending floods spreadinjT over the Shan Tung: pen insula, A correspondent at Weih Sieu telegrraphs as follows: “The Weih Sien river, ordinarily a sma\J stream fiowing^ 1~> feet below j BHirrsH WIN r\ africa. i Loudon, Sept. 10,-8:45 P. M.—Bric- j ish tj'oops have mst and defeated n 1 German fcrce of four hundred which entered Nyaasaland, British Central Africa, accaj*clinfr to an iinnou!jcement by the otficial press bureau whica adda: *The Germans lost seven officers kill ed and two wounded, two ti?-ld and two > machine guns. Tht* loss among the rank and file has not been ascertained, but was heavy. The Bi;itish loss among the whiter was four killed and several wounded, loss among the rank and file not sis- certained. On September 8, a British force advanced against the Germans, who, however, evaded the mand attacked the Biitish station at Karonga (on the Northwest shore of Lake Kyassa, ■^t the terminus of the Ste\enson rond) whirh . Hefonrfpd by one officer, fifty African rifles, the police and .S civilians. After three hours resistance a col- lum arrived from the British fovtio and drove the enemy off. Later the main British force came up and after a day’s fighting, in whieh the Ger- ister from cpmmunicating: with iiis government. Why should the Ameri can government permit the German Ambassador at \Va.shington to have Tree .communication v.ith his govern ment at Berlin*? Could not the United States loin wiih other neutral nations in demand ing a cessation of the atrocities arid barb:irities now being committed by Gerniany?- SEIZURE OF SHIPS BRING PRO TESTS. Washington, Sept. 9.—Protests che so!zu:e by Great Britain of the two biittlcships being built in England for Turkey at the outbreak of the war, adopted at a meeting cf Ottoman, In dian and Pei'sian Mussulmans and Hindus in New York have been sent to Congressmen here and members of the Cabinet. ed they wil! strike and strike again. The Germans are bringing their re inforcements down from Chalons on the roads leading to »ye-Champen- oise, Sommesous and Soxnpius, in the face of the French" artillery posted on the heights, which give the French a great advantage. - General Pau, who commands the center of the French army in this district, is reported to be advancing north of Sezanne towards the pla* teaux commanding the center of the whole battiefieid. On his left the Brit ish force has driven the Germans across the Grand Morin and Petit Mor- in 2-ivers, towards the Marin itself, while on the extreme left a French sixth army, advancing from Paris along the Ourcq river, hacv had furtlior successes and is threatening GencKil Kiuck’s communications. . In the east the Germans so far have “Great Britain may have had the j failed in their attempts to break right, .strictly speaking, to take over across the ri^■t^!s and through the hills tho.-;e ships,” siiys the protest, “but! of Argonne between Vitry le Francois ?ince she v.'as not at v>-ar with 7\irkey, on the right v/ing of the aWies. nay, was on friendly terms with ner,' Ail this favorable news has cheered she legally and morally was bound'the allies, but military critic* warn to pay f .r them on the spot. She the people that the KattlD has not been hr.* no: settled the account yet. Thus j won, and that here probably will be .she hixs committed an act of spoila- a week or moia fightivti?: before -i de* tion pure and simple, at the expense j cision is reached. of Turkey. This is as great a breiich of international law as the violation mans fought with gi*eat determination ' Belgian neutrality by Germany, and had to be dislodged by repeated j ^»eat Britain seems to have made a bayonet charges, the British drove the herseh" to injure and huinil- cnemy toward the Songwe river. The whene^'^er opportunity arises, the British were too exhausted to con-i Mussulman state which has le- tiuue the piir&uit. GERAIAN BARK CAPTURED. Plymouth, Sept. 30.—Via Lor.don, 9:5(j P. M.—The German bark Uranin, mained independent and in whose sov- ' ercigii is vested the dignity ?>f Caliph —This .mo)e particulaurly from the time it freed itself from despotisui and entered upon the path of pi'og- bound rnfm Tocopilla, Chile, for Ham- burg with a cr.rgo of nitrate valued at has beeis captured by a British warship. O ed to be still attacking the French right from Verdun to Nancy. Le.sSi.r fighting is in progress in Al sace, from whicli province the Ger mans Appear to have drawn away part of their ari«y and the French are taking advantge of this opening. The great battle man continue for'to a Ni,.h dispatch to the Exchange days, when it i.^ remernbeved that i Telegraph Company. Con-.iderablo smaller-■operations in Manchuria i„; d:,masc has been done. BKLGRAOE AGAIN BOMBAKDFD. ' Paris, Sept. 10.—B:2o P. M,—The borbardment oiT Belgrade ha.s been re newed with increased fury, according which himdredii of thousands only i The Servian batteries are replying the level of the town is now aflood.I BELGl.W APPEAL IS .MADE I'L'B causinsT enormous damage, it poured ^ LlC. through the city gates reacliinf? its New York, ocpt. i'.—^“The Indepan crest Tu;sday night. On that night dt-’il” makc.s public today the text of ‘ Persian iJu.ssulman and Hindus “What is the meaning of this atti tude?” the protest inquires, “Surely, it can only be that Great Britain is secretly striving to destroy at any co.st, that of her good fame included, the Ottomat! Empire the bulwark i.if Islam. Therefor, we Ottoman, Indian were concerned lasted a fortmght. | -Austrian iire. GEHM.\XS becoming exhaust-j ALLIES KUSHIXG AHEAD- jgp , Pxiris, Sept. 10.—11:22 P. —The The German western armies have following official comn.unicaiiion was is;sued tonight: On the left wing the British and French troops have crossed the Marne between La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre, Ohar- ly and Chateau Thierry, pursuing the enemy, who is in retreat. During the course of this advance the Brit ish forces took a number of prisoners and captured Mitrailleuses. During the four days battle, the allied armies have in that section of the theatre of operations gaiRf‘d more than sixty kilometres. Between Chateau, Thierry and Vit- y-Le-Francoise the Pru.ssian guard has been thrown back. The action continues wi^h great se- th*? Ameiican and British teacher.s at the mv.ssage in behalf of Belgium sent the Weih Sieu Missioi^ary CwUece President Wilson by Major Loui.s L. were aroused by the cra^h of falling Seaman, together with a messag? walls and heart-rending cries of des- front E. Braun, the bux>rom;ititer of pairing Chinese. Leaving their homes, GhesU, ;*.s I'ollows: thp te;uher.s plunged into the water.^i —o— and rcscued many from drowning. Th^. oh'.oi- of ihe Burgonia.ster, j American physicians, in canoes, l es- City of Ghent, Sept.ISfl4. I cued a number of women patient.-^ at Monrieur: jthe ho.spitals. j have read with (.'motion and at i “The authorities closed the evty jj,eat .satisfaction been fighting almost continuously for 25 days and until the last phase of ‘he campaign, on the offensive. Field Marshal French's view that they are becoming exhausted finds ready cred ence among military experts here. A German official wireless dispatch today .says that no report has been made public in Berlin of events ir, France for the‘last three days. GERMAN BEINFOBCEMENTS COMING. Prom Holland comes the news that 60,000 German reinforcements .ii-e marching south. These troops may have an effect on the tide of battle, but there is reason to believe the al lied armies also are receiving a coun ter balance accession of strength. GERMAN NAVY ACTIVE. That the German navy has not been v,-ithout enterprise is revealed in the admiralty announcement today that the British cruiser Path Finder was destroyed by a German submarine, not by a mine as was first supposed. The German craft, which ventured so-'far, •■froin its base, is given credit for its sates in an attempt to stay the wat ers and forty market men caught out- i.side the vtaJls were swept to their death. Many persons vrere drowned and the homeless and destitute num ber thousands in Weih Sien alone.** GERMANS RESCUED PICTURES. London, Sept. 10.—10:50 P. M.—Of- the generous and powerful appeal that you have addressed to the President of the United States of Ameiica. I am Ieeply grateful, I ;>;ld my voice to your appeal and I beg yon to urge the President of the United States to exert u!l efforts in order that we may seen see an end of the war and that the inhamity of ficial Berlin dispatches received here here may be lessened. by Marconi wireless say: "While Louvain was biirning, Ger man officers carried pictures from the Cathedra! to the Hotel DeVille for their protection. “Emperor William and Prince Leo pold of Lippe, have exchanged cordial and sympathetic telegrams on the oc casion of the heroic death of Prino verity in the region between Camp Mailly and Vitry-Le-Francois. In the center and on the right wing there is no change in the situation. On the Ornnain and in the Agonnc district the two opposing forces ?ire maintaining their positions. In the region of Nancy the enemy has mad? slight progress on the Chateau Salins road. ‘ On the other hand we have gained ground in the forest of Champenoux. The losses have been considerable on both sides, but the morale and member cf the House of Lippe to fall in this war. SUCCESS EX.4GGERATED. “According to Berlin papers fight ing has been proceeding since Septem ber 7 east of Paris on a line between Auteuil, Meaux and Vitry-La-Fran- cois. Early French; reports of vic tory proved tQ be exaggerated for the allies do not appear to be able to maintain the former successes of their The City of Ghent, in which was concluded the treaty of peace of puts itself confidently under the high protection of the American natioi\. Pray accept. Monsieur, assurances of my distinguished consideration. E. BAUM, Burgomaster of Ghent. The appeal of Major Seamar* to Pi'esident Wilson to which Mr. Baun refers in his cable message reads as follows: The Bur^omastei- of Ghe»5t, wh*re the treaty of peace was signed a hun dred years ago, authorizes me to re spectfully request that in case of in vasion the city be placed under the protection of the American flag for the safeguarding of it^ people and its historic monuments. The German government holding Brussels prevents the American min iuhabitating New Vork, invite the vvorld of Islam In its entirety in our protest.** lo jom ADVANTAGE RESTS WITH AL LIES. Bordeaux, Sept. iK—10:45 P. M.— The foUowing official annoui>censeut was issued today: “On the left wiiig all the German atternpts to break through the French lin^s on the right of tho Ourrq river havu’- failed. W^e liave taken two stand- urds. “The British avmy has crossed the Marne and the enemy has failed ba« k about forty kilometers (25 miles). ^‘On the center and ring whing there is no notable change.** - 1 RITlSti HAVE DRIVEN GERMANS ACROSS MORIN. London, Sept. —9:50 P. M,—The alliod armies continue their advantage, according to Flench oiTicial reports, ?n wh:it only can be? the preliminaries of a great battle e^ctending from ^letiiix, north^:ast of Paris, to the For tress of Verdun, about liOO miles far ther east. The Germanr., who have brought *Jp reinforcements, are .‘itrikinj? at ihe allies* left and cfmier lietwcen Mont- niirail and Vitry-Le-Francoi«, a frofii i>f from 50 to 60 miles, but each time they ha\e been driven buck. This is not surprising to military m/»n, us the Germar.s have been com pelled to advance through the swamps of the Petit Mofinj and then over bare uplands to the extremely strong French position on the right, it is their only chance, however, and it 5s expect The Austrians and Russians are still battling in Galicia, and although Russian official circles arc siient, re- port.s from Rome whiuh generj-lly huve beeti accurate coming as they do througrh German or Roumanian i-ource.^, indicate that the Russians; ar? making progre:?s against General Auf- fensberg,s army, which is beinff sup ported by Gcrn^an.'?. Some doubl is n*?v,- uxpr^issed a-j to whether the Russian enveloping uiove- ment from the South of Lemburg can he developed quickly enough to ‘ut ofi* the Austrianjs should they be de feated by tile Ku.'^sians advancing from the north. But should the Aus trians be defeated, as Rome .say.s, this second army h likely to hasten gtn;- eral Aulfensberg’y retirement- There is still a pause in the opes:i- tions in Eant Prussia, doubtless dje to a paucity of troops on the part of Russbi, which always has had djfficul- ty in transporting troops westward. Besides, the difficulty they suffered in the f?;;-hting hetwcer. .\ugust :.^7 and Augu.st 27 m;iy temporarily have tak en the sling out of their attacks. In Enjyland, where the saying is, “Britiiiii is just starting,*’ the great-*' est enthusiasm has been created by the king’s niessages to Indian, his do minions and the colonies v^hieh ;>o thanks his oversea subjects for thu promptitude with which they respond ed to the call from the mother coun try. India alone is sending 70,000 troops, “Kitchener’s pets,’* as they have been called since Field Marshal Kitchener reorganized the Indian army. They include the army of occupation and the native forces. The latter are to be comm:\nded by their princes chiefs. Bes’ • rtiis, India is to p^y the co?>t of t; . ..porting her troops to Europe and ? ,iC Indian princes ai*e se.nding rich gifts to the war funds being laised ij; their own country and England. Tht' Dominions and the colonies have placed their ships, men and money at the disposal of the home go'^emmetit so that the whole forces of the empire have recruited against her enemy. The official bureau has issued a de nial of the report that dominion troops have arrived and while no statement has been issu^ regarding the movc- of the Indi^p: contingent, ex cept that some of them left- 'India several weeks ago, the opinion js gon- Continued on Page 4.