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Tlx t ; i j BATTLE REPORTS PJ1E5KFPRS L BRITISH REPORT SAYS V - - si , GER M AH S if I REi 0 H f OW H F LIUE$ A GIRL i QFFICIA "'t ORGES WE F OH IS PIM 1' OF THE NATIONS ti" September :30 The Qerman winga appear lb, be ioldlng back onvthe cen ter, leaving the sole loophole for a backward movement .-by. ' way of Bethel.", - The' Germans are even busier than , the Russians,"1 f or besides the battles in France and Russia, they have be gun . an attack on the outer forts of Antwerp. For two days they have bee, nshelllng forts Tyaelhem and Wayre-St. Cathraines, which cover the road Malines to Antwerp. (The sowing of floating mines by tne Austrians to harass the French; and English warships in the Adriatic, has resulted in the sinking of an .Italian fishing boat, and the Italian govern ment has entered a protest at Vienna Semlin, the important Austrian town opposite Belgrade, which the Servians captured several weeks ago, but evac uated when the Austrians threatened them in another quarter again has fallen Into Servian hands. October 1 Both sides appear confi dent. The Germans, bringing up re inforcements to meet the attempts to outflank them, are in what appears to be almost impregnable positions and are fighting sternly. While the German attack on the outer fortifications on Antwerp, again Belgium has become the scene of se rious, operations. The invaders, so far, have confined their attack to the forts protecting the river crossings between Malines and Antwerp. A Ger man report says two forts have been silenced but the Belgians deny this. The Russians in the North, accord ing to Petrograd accounts, have check ed .the Germans advance and driven them back 30 miles to the region of Suvalki and Mirlampol. On the allies' righ?, in Southern Woevre where progress also is report ed, the French have been fighting to compel the Germans, who crossed the Meuse at 5t. Mihiel, to return to the Astern side' of the river. October 2 Telegrams from Petro grad, The Central News corespondent at Rome says, declare that the Ger mans have lost 30,000 men in killed and wounded and 20,000 taken prison ers in Roland. The Russian troops have continued to repulse the enemy from the boun daries of the governments of Suvalki v and Lomza. The engagement has been very fierce west of Symno. The German troops that ; were at tacking Ossowetz are retreating has tily to the north. Considerable forces of the enemy, of which the bulk ar rives from the.west are concentrating in the districts west of. the' govern-; ments. of Piontrkow and Kielce. The front of" the French battle line " is now extended Into he region to. the south of Arras. Upon the Meuse the Germans attempted at night to throw a bridge across the river near St. Mihiel. The bridge was destroyed by French guns. In the Woever district French of ensive continues and progresses step by step notably in. the region be tween Apremont and St. Mihiel. On the remainder of the front th4ere have been attempted only artial operations here and there. The Germans, who are supposed to have the assistance of heavy Aus-, trian guns, apparently have failed in their first atempt to pierce the outer line of forts at Antwerp. Stubborn resistance Is being offered by the Germans in the vicinity .of Roye where earlier in the battle they occupied heights which they were forced to abandon. The battle which promises to be the greatest and most important of ! the eastern campaign has commenced ' near Cracow, Galicia, where the Aus tro-German army, estimated to num ber 800,000 men, is endeavoring to check the Russian advance. ' 1 October 3. Roye, the little town on the main road from Amiens to Noyon, the heights around whioh have been alternately occupied by the French and the Germans during the past week is still the center of a battle of great violence. The Germans, who are ightiae stub bornly to protect their flank at this point, have brought up reinforce- ments, but according to the French of - ficial communication today, all their attacks have been repulsed. The action, however, is still pro ceeding and upon it much depends, for if the Germans are beaten, their line of communication -at Tergnier will be seriously threatened. Of other operations on this front, which extends as far north as Arra3, nothing has been disclosed since the French themselves announced that their force debouching from Arras had fallen back slightly on the east and north of that town. There is evidence from other sour ces that the Germans are making pre parations to protect their flank, should retirement become necessary. They have evacuated West Flanders and their attack on Antwerp is believed by many to be designed to keep the Belgians busy and prevent them from operating on what would be General Von Kluck's left should he fall back through Belgium. A big Russian army is gathering to meet them, and a great battle probab ly will be fought in Poland, instead of on the borders of Poland jand SEVEN MILLIONS A DAY. Cost .of Warls ImrtTense But Bank of France Stands the Strain Well. Paris.. . The r war is costing " France $7,000,000 a day.1 Minister of Finance Alexander announced that the outlay for the first 'sixty days of the conflict had Been $420,000,000. J- In a Temps interview; M,i Ribot says the banfe-of France oh October 1 had $812,400,000 In 'ca5iVwch..Va $63,000,000 more than : it had 'on the eve of the war. . "Advances made to the government V AT WAR Silesia. t , In the north,,' if the reports are to by believed, the r Russians seem- to have checked ' the German . invasion from East Prussia and have compell ed the Germans to retract their stept except on the right wing which Is still fighting around Ossowetz. The latest report on the movements oT the, German Emperor is that he has left Breslau, from which, point the invasion of Poland was launched. October 4. Having repulsed th German attacks presumably in -the vi cinity of Roye, the French, according to' an official communication issued at PaTis, have, resumed the offensive at several points, while other posi tions on their left have been main tained. 1 N The great effort of the allies to en yelop the German right may be said to be in operation again, and it is be- lieved the' whole French column from Roye northward to Arras is moving eastward against the German posi tions. . It is the same operation that has beefc tried repeatedly for the last three weeks in an attempt to reach the German lines of communication and either encircle the German army forming the right wing or force it to fall back to Belgium and Luxemburg. The Germans have had .a long time in which to make their positions se cure, so there is a lot of hard fighting ahead for both the attacking forces and the defenders. The defensive role" is apparently being assumed by the invaders. " Heretofore fortresses have not stood long after the big German siege guns have been brotightM, 'But Antwerp is in a different category for in addi tion to being stronger than any fort ress yet attacked, there is a consid erable space in which the field army can operate against the besieging forces. The battle is still raging along the East Prussian frontier, and according to Berlin reports. the Germans have s, cored a victory over the Russians who had pierced their center at Au gustowo. . Four monarchs, the Russian empe- kror, the German emperor and the king of . Belgium and the president of France are taking part in the battles reached France and already may have J of cotton and regarded any such pro or on their way to visit the troops In reinforced Field Marshal French's ar- posai as unwise and dangerous. - He the field. The German emperor has been on both western and eastern frontiers, while King Albert has been on the actual firing line ever since war began. October 5. Only brief reference concernine actual fiehtine is made bv the French war office in its latest re- port on the conflict in Northern slans nd Germans and Austrians is j "s must De aone largely, ana proo France. "The general situation .la somewhat problematical, but a very ably initiated, through the bands' of stationary," it says. In the eastern war zone the Jtus sians report that having conquered the Germans in Russian Poland, two Russian armies are invading East Prussia with Allenstein as their ob jective. In the South, on the Adriatic, French men-of-war are reDorted again to be bombarding the Ausrtian port oi Cattaro As yet the situation surrounding the forts -at Antwerp, which are under bombardment by the Germans, has not been cleared up definitely. The Germans still cailm they have captur ed several of the outer fortifications while the Belgians declare the de fences remain intact. Oreat Britain is investigating coal shipments from the United States un der -the suspician that the cargoes in stead of reaching ports to which they are consigned, reach German warships at sea. ''The Prince of Wales' relief fund has reached $15,000,000. French cavalry executed a daring raid back of the German lines where they blew up a railroad tunnel and escaped. General Jean Rousseu of the French cavalry died yesterday of wounds. October 6. A news dispatch from Bordeaux announces that a number of important changes have been made in Germany's army commanders. ; An epidemic of dysentery has brok- en out among the Austrian troops in Bohemia and Moravia. Great Britain has prohibited the ex portation of raw wool. Winston Spencer Churchill, first lord of the admiralty, is said to be at Antewrep consulting with the;' Belgian chief of staff. The Washington government is still without official advices concerning the landing of Japanese blujeackets on. the island of Jaluit, in the Marshall archipelago, in the Pacific ocean. A second Russian army is .now threatening the town of Huszt, in eastern Hungary, according to a news dispatch from Rome. Huszt is 40 miles from the boundary of Galicia, which Is. near the crest of the Carpa thian mountains. Twenty-four American nurses and six doctors, members of the Red Cross units assigned to Russia, are at Stock holm, Sweden, on their way to Petro grad. .A force of 90 French architects and 3.000 workmen . ftands ready in Paris to go forth into the war zone to re pair damage done by shell and flame. Oct.- 1, after two months of the war, reached $420,000,000' the minister of finance said. "The credit balances on the same date in the treasury was $59,200,000 and therefore, we are far from having exhausted the amount provided by our convention with the bank. Besides we .have just renewed ! the convention to' assure the resources ' necessary in ease the war-shbulde prolonged beyond the date foreseen, V "svT.r.a 4a trv, .o hausted her reserve and when the: uuur for comes Bne win una tne monit "r": yviuyiiouiui. f i man. am voaiiaer coma cor mm. oui unw. - r v - v - .-1 . ' . ' a new loan."; - -iXm taen. .i i . ;-t the preceding fiscal period.:;-- v ' .X'-ryX Hf ... I RED f'xrlhfl Pi NOTHING DEFINITE COMES FROM ' THE FRONT AS TO EITHER 1 1 ' - SIDE. , , . NES IS ALL SATISFACTORY England Claim Condition Are Good But Give Nothing But Mere Out line of Progress, While the. world awaits news of the great battle in which the' British and French Allied forces and the Germans in norther France have engaged, meager official reports from the front vouchsafe little - information of , ihe actual operations. ' . Today It is a small piece of ground lost and tomorrow the .same ground has b&3n .regained. Meanwhile the French forces are moving northward, but are gaining little to the east, which would be essential to the outflanking ofjhe German right wing. , As a matter of fact General , vdn j Kluck in command of that section I of the German army with heavy re- inforcements which have reached him in the past week, has taken a decided offensive and day by day the an nouncement is made by the -French War Office that the "violent battle continues." The British official bureau reports that the French army is fighting with the greatest dash and bravery but is silent on what the British are doing. The French officials report an advance on certain points on the center and the retaking of the ground previously yielded in the Roye district. Masses of German cavalry , have been recently seen near Lille and be- hind them German forces moving on I a line between Tourcoing and Armen-1 tieres. This important unit of f the German army, which it was thought might serve to break the Frenchx line, the French report, has been held in 1 check, and to the north of Lille, has been driven back. On two wings, It I is added the German attacks have I been repulsed. . " The . northward movement of the French line brings it close to the Bel- gian frontier and coincidentally there have been engagements between the Belgians and the Germans in the en virons or Ypres, 20 miles south of Os tend and at Audenarde, 5 miles south-1 west of Ghent. . While the East Indian troops have my operating in the neighborhood of j Soissons, the whereabouts of the Cana- dians, numbering about 33.000. has been a matter of conjecture., -It is now announced that they are about -to be I landed in England and will ,be sent to an inland training camp. The situation as between.' the Rus-i frank statement from Berlin admits that the German forces on the front ier. of East Prussia bUve assumed a strategical defensive movement and that they abandoned the bombardment Of Ossowetz, " a fortress in Russian Poland. This statement adds that the fight ing at Augustowo.and in Suwalki was of a most sanguinary nature and that while the German machine guns finally turned the scale of battle An favor of I the Germans the slaughter of the Ger- man artillery men was terrific. The movements of the German troops were greatly hampered by the physical con dition of the country. , The forty-third German casualty list issued at Berlin contains 10,600 names in dead, wounded and missing1. Berlin also reports that the fighting on the German 'right wing In France has been successful and that in the assault on Antwerp two more forts have fallen into German hands. The Belgian Government has been removed from Antwerp to Ostend, several of the ministers and many thousans of refugees having reached mere, rne DomDarament or Antwerp it is reported, already has begun, fol lowing a notification from the com mander of the German troops that non-combatants and others desiring to do so, should withdraw fiom the city. Forces Fight Well Together. Manchester, Mass. The Austro- Hungarian Embassy here announced receipt of an official wireless message from Count von Berchtold, the Foreign Secretary of Augstria-Hungary, as fol lows: "Austro-Hungary and German forces are fighting successfully shoul der to shoulder in Russian Poland, where their sudden advance seemsQo have completely surprised the Rus sians, who were-repulsed across the. Vistula in their attempt to cross that river. Our forces took a bridge head near Sandomier. Russians Opposed by Germans. Petrograd. The Russian general staff issued the following statement 'On the East Prussian frontier the Germans, having brought up rein forcements from Koenigsberg, con- tlnue to oppose a tenacious resistance unon the battle front of nadislavoff . I.' and Ratchka. nrofitine bv the defiles. lakes and marshes in the" reeioh of Tchernoeanla. IBevond tht! Vistula nHronu cruaWI holt ui Y.ara nnnnA1 in. the region of Opatow 'and Sando- jnir. At Saliva we have camitrde an 1-T.rtillerv nark and nnmrnns convnva'" Germans Repulsed Along Center. Paris. The Frenoh war department issued the following: - x ; ; v Except on the two : wings whereJ the Uerman attacks .have peen ref ' , stioug lue.iryuu : , , un our lett wing xne uerman cav T."r.: T "T " - I vtjacK. . f i v'; Between Unau"es and - Ro?e thi if r ' vr p w f THINKS CON QR ESfS HASyDONE ITS 'PARt vTOWARD " AELI ef OF COTTON.. V NOW 'UP -TOjTHE). bankers North Carolina Delegation from , Far . ,-triers" f Union Qlven-' 8ym pthetlc r' ; ' ;i Hearing by . Wilson, " j- '' f4cM'f- V X ; The North. ar?UBajdeIgation In congressV'accompniedr brDxH. Q. Alexander; J. Z. Green and W. B. JGib son of the State Farmers' Union, con ferred with' the president about cotton today. V The president told the Tar Heels 'that "lie. favors - the ;St Louis plan for financing: the cotton crop. The president ave the North Caro linians a sympathetic hearing, and told them that he believed the situa tion could be -met without further fl- nanrfal legislation by. congress. He Added, howeyerr that the warehouse bill, which 'ihas passed - the senate al- ready, should be enacted speedily. He indicated a willingness ' to lend this measure bis support. As a result of his attitude, it is be lieved ithe ; rules committee will - report a special ruler for its consideration before the adjournment of the present session. After the White House "con ference, Senator Overman said : . 'The projected StTLouis cotton pool is regarded generally as a step in the right direction. It is the belief of the administration that a similar pool of not less "than $100,0o6,000 in the Southeastern; states would afford ade quate relief, and I am personally of the -opinion that the banks and busi ness enterprsies in the section should hasten to organize such a pool. Per sons who are familiar with -the St. Louis plan ; regard it as important, to the people of the South in the present emergency -as the $100,000,000 gold pool is to the international financial situation.? Representative Small, speaking for the delegation that called on the p res- ident, said "If one may summarize result of the conference and the attitude of the president it may be stated as follows: The president is . profoundly interest ed and, within the limitations of eco nomic law and safe finance, he will do all In his power to help. It was evi- dent that he was not in sympathy with any plan to valorize the price would like to see the federals, ware house bill become, a law before this session closes, but does not .believe any further legislation is nee'essary, . but that the situation can benet.' In so far as can be metall,; SybHliz- ing our currency ror maklngAdVanceS b andling thtf cotton crop, and that the country, and that the secretary of the treasury and the federal" reserve board will render all the assistance in their power. PEACE IN MEXICO EXPECTED. Battle . Continues Between . Hall ind Naytorena at Naco Washington. Speedy restoration of harmony between Generals Carranza and Villa through open conferences a Aguas Calientes was predicted in a statement issued by tho Constitution alist agency here. Consul Silliman, who has returned to Washington after a sojourn cf three months In Mexico as the personal rep resentative of President Wilson, re sumed 'conferences with' State Depart ment omcials on the Mexican situa tion generally wftnout reference to the question of recognition, it was said. Pending the outcome of the pre liminary conference at Aguas Calien tes and the general convention whicl has been called to meet there, officials here say it would be unwise to giva this question serious attention. Reports to the State Department in dicate that the battle between the forces of Governor Maytorena and General Hill at Naco, countinues without advantage to either of the contestants. Bryan -Urges Election of Gerard. Washington. Secretary Bryan en tered the New York senatorial cam paign when he made' public a leteer declaring himself in favor of the elec tion of Ambassador Gerard as "an en dorsement .of he, policies of the Ad ministration. Judge Gerard,"" Mr. Bryan said, "has renederd splendid service at Berlin, and there ia no rea- son why his success' as a diplomatic representative should stand in the way of his promotion - in- his home state I feel sure he would make, an excel lent representative. T. Mellen Expresses Opinion., New York. Charles S. Mellenr -for mer president of the New Haven & Hartford Railroad, "Co., stateffnrieny "a few days ago his. position regarding the suit brought Dy tne xsew. navpn I T J J i - t-SJF nwlnn Mil .rT rrn 1 -oaa au;uuie,ffw ms" 't'si tion' Company i against himself, John I L, Ballard and five other officers of the Blllard Company to recover $3, 824,147 in' connection wit hthe sale OI UB J308LOH , fiC UliUUC AJUUU. . X J never had a share or stocK or.invest- 1 ea a uouar inline run ' uiHau,, 1 Mr. Mellen said. '. :L Maies Report, 3 ; I LouisvUle, ,Kyr-ReP0,1s . submitted f at the Annual stockholders meeting of the.- Louisville Nashville ; Railroad nat- ror.o"ntiWc.in-oir. n inirtrctakA -in. ner- passenger earnings, and decrease. In 1 net -fieight earnings' , for the., fiscal - f VAn -, ptl inn Sfl 191 . Th- has-.; fenger frnings wej 5 1 comparea with w,5Zis ozr ine rcorresDondine nerlod In the-previous year - freight-earnings . were ?,540,- London. The'; 6ffldal press bureau f issued a descriptive account of - the operations 4 in France of the British forcec and "the French armies in im mediate touch- with it, communicated by an eye witness present at the head quarters of Field Marshal Ir John French. :- -: Sept 25, 1914 For four days there has been a comparative lull all along' our front. This has been ac companied by a spell of fine weather, though the. nights are now much cold er. One cannot have everything, how ever, and one evil result of -the sun shine has been the release of flies, which were torpid' during the wet days. : "Advantage has been taken of the "arrival of reinforcements to relieve. by fresh troops the men who have been on the firing line for some time. Several units therefore have received their baptism of fire during the week. Germans Fire on Own Men. "Since the last letter left general headquarters evidence has been re ceived which points to the fact that during counter-attaeks on the night of Sunday, the 20ththe German man- try fired into each other as the result 6f an attempt to cary out the dan gerous expedient of a converging ad vance In the dark. - Opposite one portion of our po sition a considerable massing of hos tile forces was observed before dark, and some hours later a furious fusil lade was heard In front of our line, though no bullts came over . our trenches. Many Dead In Trenches. This , narrative begins . with Sep tember 21 and covers only two days. On Monday, the 21st, there was little rain and the weather -took a turn lor the better, which baB been maintained. The action was, practically confined to the artillery, our guns at one point shelling and driving away the enemy, who were endeavoring to construct a redoubt The Germans for their part expended a large number of . heavy shells in a long range bombardment of a village. ' ' , "Reconnoitering parties sent out during the night of September 21- 22 discovered some deserted trenches, and in1 them, or near them, in the woods, more than a hundred dead and wounded were picked up. A number of rifles, ammunition and equipment also were found. There were other signs that portions of the enemy s forces had withdrawn for some dis tance. "Tuesday, th'e 22nd, also was a fine day, with less wind, and was one of the most uneventful days that has passed since we reached the Alsnt uneventful, that is, for the British. There was less artillery work on either side, the Germans nevertheless giving another village a taste of the 'Jack Johnsons.' Bodies in "No Man's Land." "The spot thus honored was not far from - the ridge where some of the most severe fighting in which we have taken part has occurred. AU over this 'no man's land' between the lines the bodies of German infantrymen are still lying in heaps where they have fallen at different times. "Espionage plays 'so large a part In the conduct of the war by the Ger mans that it ia diflicult'to avoid fur ther reference to the subject. , They have evidently never forgotten the saying of Frederick the Great: 'When MarshaV Soubise goes to war he is fol lowed by a hundred cooks; when 1 take the field I am preceded, by va hundred spies. "Indeed,' mntil about twenty years ago there was a paragraph in their field service regulations directing that the service of 'protection in the field' outposts and advanced guards should always be supplemented by a system of espionage. Many Spies Give Signals. "Though such Instructions are no longer made public, the Germans, as is well known, still carry them into ef fect. Apart from the more elaborate arrangements which were made in peace time for obtaining Information by paid -agents, some of the methods which are being employed for the col lection or conveyance of intelligence are as follows: "Men In plain clothes signal to the German lines from points in the hands of the enemy by means of colored lights at night and puffs of smoke from chimneys by day. Pseudo labor ers working in the fields between the armies have been detected conveying information and persons in plain clothes have acted as advanced scouts to the German cavalry when ad vancing. , . Officers Remain Behind. German officers and soldiers in plain clothes, .er in French or British uniforms, have remained in localities evacuated" by the Germans in order to furnish them with intelligence. One spy of this kind was found by our "troops hidden in a church tower. His presence was discovered only through the erratic movements of the hands of the church clock, which he was using to signal to his friends by means of .an improved semaphore code.- ; . , 'Had this, man not been seized It is -probable he would, have signaled to the German artillery at the time of their ariival the exact location of the headquarters' and staff. . A high ex plosive shell would then have mys teriously dropped on the building. -"1- ''Women : sples-- also have bsen caught; secret agents have been found WOUNDED GERMANS ; - KISaMNDS OF FOE V BRINGING THEM; AID . France. -A" young soldier told me this: - . .; ' . ' . Day and' might he and his fellow had . beek "fighting ; till- the Germans melted Vaway. .; Then they , returned a'cto.ssVjthVc6untry; they, had fought pyerHere and th'ere they came upon a Vounded manYand, French -pr . Ger- at - the : railroads observing -entrain-, merits and detrainments..-,- - It is -a simple matter, for spies to. inlx with .the refugees moving; about to their homes difficult for our troops. who speak neither Prencjh. nor Ger man, to detect , them.' . ' ' - The French have found It neces sary to search" villages and also casual" wayfarers on the roads for carrier pigeohs- - , ." Among the precautions taken by us to guard against spying Is the pubUcaj tion of the following notice-printed in French and posted:" "... - " '1. Motor cars and bicycles not carrying Boldiers in .uniform may i not circulate on the roads. , r "2. The inhabitants may not leave the localities where they reside be- tween 6 p. m. and 6 a. m. f ' c '3. Inhabitants "may not qulf their homes after 8 p m. v - I '4. No Derson may on any pretext pass through the British lines with- out an authorization, countersigned by a Bjriti8h officer.' ' ' Value of Secrecy Shown. "Events have moved eo quickly dur ing the last two months that anything connected with the mobilization of the British expeditionary force is now an cient history. Nevertheless, the fol lowing extract of a German order is evidence of the mystification of the enemy and is a tribute to the value of secrecy, well and loyally maintained at the time in England " 'Tenth Reserve Army Headquar ters, ATont St. Guibert, Aug. 20, 1914, 23:40. Corps order, As. 2L: The French troops in front of the Tenth "army corps have retreated ! south Part of the Bel- across the Sambre. gian army has withdrawn to Antwerp It is reported that .an English army has disembarked at Calais and Boul ogne, en route for Brussels.", DEATH COMES SWIFTLY TO TWO GERMAN SPIES London. A story received from a point in France it is not permitted to specify says: A soldier comes out from behind a pine tree with rifle and CSed bayonet: "Ou allez vous?" he says, stepping before me and dropping bis bayonet L point a little toward ma. "Je vais mespromener," I eply smil ing, and anticipate his next, demand by pulling out my casfe and display ing my special permit, also various other papers and an officially stamped photograph, which proves my identi- fl cation with the name tupon the spe cial permit. "Monsieur, permit me,-' eays the sol dier suddenly in very fair English. . ''Monsieur is ze man that writes. ' I shake you by re hand wiSa ver' great pleasairef It is t6 me an honor!" We "shake" with enormous empress ment and I compliment him upon his English. He smiles, gratified, and disclaims with great modesty. He beckons me back among the trees. "One. comes!" he says. "Ssh! ZeJ woods here have been many times set in flames. We have suspects these be done with intention." See Spy Among Trees. - He ceased his whisper abruptly and we both bent forward together. A hundred yards down the narrow path among the pines a man in a work man's blue blouse is standing, looking' quietly in every direction.. Suddenly he takes a couple of. steps in among the trees, stoops and lifts a stone. Far down the hillside at the ehd of the narrow vista among the trees, a second man was suddenly seen. So utter is the silence that I can hear him plainly as he coughs.. He begins to haul . on something, and I reaMse" suddenly the meaning of the whole in cident that I am watching. The two men have located the underground private telephone wire golngup to the fort. They have been tapping it for any news they might pick up. Death 'Is Painless. The soldier is methodical. . He takes the distant man first. Kneeling there behind him, I watch with a growing thrill and tension of, tragedy and sick ness his sunburned cheek cuddle agafnst the stock of his rifle. Then very slowly it seems to me in that quiet, dreadful moment his stubby cigarette stained forefinger crooks back gently, gently on the trigger. "Crack!" comes the sharp, snapping bang of the weapon, and the man down the vlst of trees gives a queer little jump and then turns right around quickly and looks behind him. And thus looking, and seemingly unaware that he is the person who has been shot, his heart stops and he rolls over quite easily and gently on his slde a merciful enough death, as these' violent deaths go, for some of them are so dreadful. ' Shoots -Second German. And then, as I stare, the rifle goes "crack!" again, and I Jump; for I am still looking at the silent figure down the vista of trees. - But the soldier has been attending to his business and has snapped off a second shot at the nearer - man, . for the man had started to bolt. - And be cause the shot was hastily aimed, the second death is as cruel as the, first was merciful. An examination of both bodies shows that the men . were German spies, in. possession, of . "ciphered" In-, formation that would no 'doubt prove very helpful to pur enemies.,. - .- : in many cases the'. stricken burden waa so awful they were'glad when .It died. . , .;";L' - .. .1 .. "Wounded - G ermsns,-:': in :- the laist stages of " suffering findlner a water bottle at" their" parched lips, kissed the I handa of the foe -who held It: to thelc mouths. . '"-j Xixf''lx '. .The yquhg Frenchman toli me sadly of being embraced - and 3 kissed by wounded -Germans ' he . had . helped on the battlefield. v - . V. -j- . - . " v--. . 'A n1 -..- v A- m- Lia.i.i : itJ Who Sxtffered As Many vGirb r''s DpT-TeD ?; Hb W She , SternngvConiL--"I amtia-glrl of 22 years and 1; used to faint awa7- every month and was very weak, y': I . wasalso bothered a lot with female weakness. I read your Kttle book Wisdom - for Wo men,..' and I saw how others bad been helped by Lydia E. Ptnkham's Vegeta ble. 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China Grove Record (Salisbury, N.C.)
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Oct. 9, 1914, edition 1
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